Wound Care Advantage wins Net Health’s first Value of Innovation Award

By AI, Created 4:33 PM UTC, May 18, 2026, /AGP/ – Wound Care Advantage received the inaugural Net Health Momentum Award for Value of Innovation in Wound Care at the company’s NEXT 2026 conference in Phoenix. The award recognizes WCA’s Luvo platform, which gives hospital-based wound centers real-time visibility into clinical performance, revenue trends, and compliance risk.

Why it matters: - The award spotlights how hospital wound centers are using data tools to improve patient care and program performance. - WCA’s Luvo platform is designed to give leaders earlier insight into compliance risk and revenue trends, which can affect both care quality and financial stability. - Net Health framed the award as recognition for organizations that use technology to produce measurable clinical and financial results.

What happened: - Wound Care Advantage won the first-ever Net Health Momentum Award for Value of Innovation in Wound Care. - Net Health presented the award at NEXT 2026, held April 20-23 at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix. - The announcement was made May 13, 2026. - The honor recognized Luvo, WCA’s proprietary business intelligence platform built with Net Health.

The details: - Luvo includes customized dashboards and gamified education tools for wound center teams. - The platform gives users real-time visibility into clinical performance metrics, revenue trends, and compliance performance. - Luvo is deployed across The WCA Network. - Luvo pulls clinical data from Net Health WoundExpert, the wound care electronic health record used by WCA clinicians to document patient encounters. - WoundExpert remains WCA’s clinical system of record. - Luvo is EHR-agnostic and can integrate with other wound care and hospital electronic health record systems. - Luvo serves as a wound care intelligence platform and performance management system for hospital-based programs. - The platform gives administrators, clinicians, and health system leaders a unified view of performance across every wound center in a network. - WCA said the platform helps connect bedside activity with what leadership sees in the boardroom. - WCA said the system helps surface compliance risk earlier and track revenue trends in real time. - Net Health CEO Ron Books said WCA’s work reflects more than two decades of hospital-based wound care expertise and shows what happens when clinical knowledge and the right technology come together. - Books said the result is better outcomes for patients, stronger performance for programs, and clearer visibility for health system leaders.

Between the lines: - The award reinforces the growing role of software in turning wound care from a manual, fragmented workflow into a measurable operating function. - WCA’s partnership with Net Health also shows how specialty providers are building tools that can work across different health system environments, not just within one electronic record. - Net Health’s focus on AI, empathy, and workflow efficiency at NEXT 2026 suggests the company is positioning technology as a way to reduce administrative burden for caregivers. - WCA’s recognition may help validate its support model for hospital-based wound centers, which keeps hospitals in control while adding expertise and infrastructure.

What’s next: - WCA will continue using Luvo across The WCA Network and in hospital-based wound programs. - Net Health is expected to keep expanding its Momentum Awards program as part of future client conferences. - WCA says it will keep supporting hospital wound centers through its support model and broader wound care consulting work.

The bottom line: - Wound Care Advantage’s win gives new visibility to a niche but important use case for health tech: helping wound care teams improve outcomes, compliance, and economics at the same time.