Every journey starts with a meaningful insight—ours began a decade ago, in Toronto, with the simple belief that wound care is essential healthcare, touching every bed, in every care setting. This foundational truth has guided Swift Medical from day one, with a simple but transformative vision—to put accurate, objective wound measurements in the hands of every clinician. At that time, traditional wound assessment relied on subjective methods unchanged for decades—paper rulers, visual guesswork, and inconsistent documentation. We knew there was a better way. 

Setting a New Standard

In 2015, Swift^Ⓡ launched the first smartphone-based wound imaging platform, Swift Skin & Wound^™. I and my co-founders recognized the potential of advanced computer vision technologies—originally developed for space exploration, mapping craters on Mars—and adapted them to measure wounds with extraordinary precision.

This breakthrough made accurate, objective wound measurement accessible at any bedside, on or offline, setting a new standard for the industry. Swift enabled clinicians to accurately measure wounds with just the smartphone they already carry. This breakthrough dramatically improved the consistency and reliability of wound care. 

Swift quickly gained momentum, and by 2016 we had partnered with PointClickCare^Ⓡ, the leader in long-term and post-acute care electronic medical records. This partnership accelerated our impact, bringing integrated digital wound management to tens of thousands of healthcare providers and millions of patients, fostering collaboration, consistency, and better outcomes. 

Scaling Innovation, Facing Challenges 

In 2019, Swift achieved a remarkable milestone—clinicians used Swift Skin & Wound to help heal over 10,000 wounds in a single month. This validation of our approach underscored the power of digital wound care and the growing trust clinicians placed in our solutions. The platform transformed everyday mobile devices into precision clinical tools, enabling frontline nurses and caregivers to instantly capture, measure, and monitor wounds accurately. This achievement confirmed our vision—that objective, digital wound measurement technology could dramatically improve patient care and accelerate healing rates. 

When COVID-19 disrupted healthcare delivery worldwide in 2020, it revealed a chasm in care accessibility and care equity. Swift adapted quickly, delivering our telehealth offering, Patient Connect^TM, to keep patients safely engaged in essential wound care from a distance. Tele-wound care proved not just necessary, but revolutionary, ensuring patients received uninterrupted, high-quality care, regardless of their location. 

Seeing the Invisible 

Swift’s commitment to innovation continued with the 2022 release of the Swift Ray^TM 1, a groundbreaking pocket-sized device using fluorescence and thermal imaging.This revolutionary new device reveals invisible indicators of infection and inflammation, allowing clinicians to detect and address complications before they become serious. With Swift Ray, clinicians now have powerful new visibility into wound physiology, allowing proactive, targeted interventions that save limbs, prevent infections, and improve healing. 

By June 2023, Swift reached another major milestone—over 20 million wound assessments captured. This remarkable milestone underscored not only the adoption and reach of our solutions, but their measurable impact—significantly faster healing, reduced hospitalizations, and lower overall healthcare costs. This achievement represents the largest calibrated wound image database globally, fueling Swift’s next phase—harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence.

Leveraging AI to Transform Care 

When working on Space technology in my earlier years, machine learning and the usage of AI was commonplace for many decades. I wanted to bring the same level of advancement to healthcare from the very start of the company. It’s no surprise that Swift’s extensive image and clinical data library today powers advanced AI algorithms that analyze wound photos, recognize healing patterns, predict complications, and deliver real-time, actionable insights directly at the bedside. With over 1.3 million monthly assessments, and close to 70 million assessments collected, Swift’s AI can effectively guide clinicians toward better, more personalized patient care. Along the way, we have been fortunate to win many awards for pioneering digital wound care.

Moreover, Swift is deeply committed to addressing wound care equity, ensuring technology solutions meet the needs of diverse populations, irrespective of skin tone, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Our goal is clear, equitable wound care for everyone, everywhere. 

In 2024, we were proud to launch Swift Skin & Wound 2, our next-generation platform designed to carry Swift’s vision forward through the next decade of skin and wound care, serving as a foundation for delivering clinical insights to the bedside through AI. This advanced solution harnesses the largest calibrated wound database in the world—over 32 million images strong—to drive AI-powered predictive analytics, personalized treatment recommendations, and early risk identification. 

AI has always been a foundational element of our approach, bringing profound new insights into the healing process. With the advanced AI built into Swift Skin & Wound 2, clinicians can detect subtle trends invisible to the human eye, predict complications before they occur, and ensure no patient slips through the cracks. 

The Road Ahead, Empowering Clinician-Patient Partnership 

Looking ahead, we know that there are not enough clinicians to take care of the aging population, so our vision expands to empower patients as active partners alongside clinicians, creating a more collaborative healing journey.  

By putting sophisticated measurement and diagnostic tools directly into more caregivers’ and patients’ hands, we’ll help patients engage more directly, contributing to more informed, collaborative care decisions and better outcomes overall. 

Swift Academy^TM, our platform for training and certification, will empower clinicians with the tools and knowledge needed for peak performance. This self-service library of proprietary and uniquely created content further enhances the clinical knowledge base and empowers a diverse workforce. 

Additionally, continuing to advance innovative technologies like Swift Ray, we want to move upstream towards prevention through our AI-powered predictive analytics with SmartTissue^TM and HealingIndex^TM, and deeply integrated digital tools, we see a future where preventable suffering from chronic wounds becomes a distant memory. 

The need for accurate and rapid predictive assessment and risk management is only accelerating, as we recently published in our 2025 Wound Care Survey. 

Swift revolutionizes how wounds are managed across the healthcare continuum, integrating effectively with value-based care models and enterprise wound care programs to help organizations transform outcomes, and reduce systemic healthcare costs. 

An Invitation 

As we celebrate our first amazing decade, and look to the next, we remain guided by a singular purpose—Healing Our World Faster^TM. 

This ten-year anniversary isn’t just a milestone—it’s an invitation. If you are a clinician who would like to try Swift for your company’s needs, don’t hesitate to reach out. Together, let’s continue this incredible journey, reimagining wound care for a healthier, more equitable future. 

Sincerely,