Effective Date: June 10, 2026
Version: OWW-TOS-2026-06-10
1. Intended Users and Purpose
OceanWoundsWayfinder is a clinical support tool designed to help healthcare workers organize wound-related information and review possible treatment considerations. The information generated by OceanWoundsWayfinder is intended to support clinical thinking, documentation, and care planning.
OceanWoundsWayfinder is intended for use by qualified healthcare personnel and organizations that can independently review patient information, clinical rationale, and the basis for any recommendation before acting on it.
OceanWoundsWayfinder does not diagnose patients, prescribe treatment, replace medical decision-making, or independently determine a patient’s plan of care.
All outputs from OceanWoundsWayfinder should be treated as items to consider, not as final medical recommendations.
2. Not a Replacement for Clinical Judgment
OceanWoundsWayfinder is not a substitute for the professional judgment, training, experience, or decision-making of licensed healthcare workers.
Healthcare providers remain solely responsible for evaluating each patient, interpreting clinical findings, reviewing medical history, assessing risks, confirming diagnoses, determining appropriate treatments, and following applicable laws, regulations, facility policies, payer requirements, and standards of care.
The use of OceanWoundsWayfinder does not remove or reduce the responsibility of the treating clinician or healthcare organization.
3. Treatment Considerations Only
Any treatment options, wound care suggestions, dressing considerations, debridement considerations, offloading suggestions, compression considerations, infection-related prompts, vascular prompts, or other outputs generated by OceanWoundsWayfinder are provided for informational and educational support only.
These outputs are not orders, prescriptions, protocols, standing orders, or mandatory instructions.
Before acting on any information generated by OceanWoundsWayfinder, the healthcare worker must independently determine whether the information is clinically appropriate for the specific patient.
4. Patient-Specific Care Required
Wound care decisions must be based on the patient’s full clinical picture, including but not limited to patient history, wound type, wound location, wound measurements, tissue characteristics, drainage, odor, infection signs, pain, perfusion status, vascular studies, pressure risk, diabetic status, nutrition, medications, allergies, comorbidities, mobility, goals of care, facility resources, and provider scope of practice.
OceanWoundsWayfinder may not account for all patient-specific details or clinical circumstances.
5. No Emergency or Urgent Care Use
OceanWoundsWayfinder is not intended for emergency medical use. If a patient has signs of a medical emergency, severe infection, sepsis, rapidly worsening wounds, uncontrolled bleeding, acute ischemia, necrotizing infection, or any other urgent condition, follow emergency procedures immediately.
6. Accuracy and Limitations
While OceanWoundsWayfinder is designed to provide helpful wound care considerations, it may produce incomplete, outdated, incorrect, or inappropriate information. Users are responsible for verifying all information before relying on it.
Users must not rely primarily on OceanWoundsWayfinder outputs when a patient assessment, direct examination, specialist review, medical order, manufacturer instruction, or applicable clinical guideline is required.
7. Product and Treatment Responsibility
Any mention of a dressing, device, medication, or intervention is for consideration only. Users must review manufacturer instructions, contraindications, warnings, facility policy, and applicable clinical guidelines before using any product or treatment.
8. Scope of Practice
Users are responsible for ensuring that any care decision or procedure is within their professional license, training, competency, and authorized scope of practice.
9. Accounts, Access Approval, and Security
Access to OceanWoundsWayfinder may be limited to approved users. Registration does not guarantee access. Accounts may be placed in pending, approved, suspended, reset-required, or deleted states at the discretion of the account administrator or software owner.
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their login credentials and for all activity occurring under their account. Users must promptly report suspected unauthorized access or misuse.
10. Privacy and Patient Information
Users should only enter information into OceanWoundsWayfinder in accordance with their organization’s privacy policies, HIPAA requirements, business associate requirements where applicable, and other applicable laws.
OceanWoundsWayfinder is designed so that routine wound-entry and session data are not intentionally persisted as a longitudinal patient chart after the active session ends. However, account records, access logs, approval records, security records, administrator actions, issue reports, and other operational or compliance-related system records may be stored.
Users and organizations remain responsible for determining whether their deployment, hosting, data-entry practices, and integrations are appropriate for the type of information entered.
11. Ownership, Restrictions, and No Redistribution
OceanWoundsWayfinder, including its source code, clinical logic, workflows, visual design, text, build fingerprints, and related documentation, is proprietary software owned by James Isenberg unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.
Users may not copy, redistribute, sell, sublicense, publish, reverse engineer, decompile, modify, reskin, create derivative works from, or provide unauthorized access to OceanWoundsWayfinder or any portion of its code, logic, interface, or outputs except as expressly permitted in writing.
OceanWoundsWayfinder may include build identifiers in protected metadata, admin views, and system logs used to verify authenticity, investigate misuse, and protect ownership rights.
12. Suspension, Termination, and Changes
Access may be suspended, restricted, reset, or terminated at any time for security, misuse, policy enforcement, licensing, operational, compliance, or administrative reasons.
These terms may be updated from time to time. Continued use of OceanWoundsWayfinder after updated terms are presented constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
13. Warranty Disclaimer
OceanWoundsWayfinder is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent permitted by law. No representation or warranty is made that the software will be uninterrupted, error-free, complete, secure, clinically appropriate for any specific patient, compliant with any specific payer requirement, or suitable for any particular purpose.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, James Isenberg and OceanWoundsWayfinder shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, regulatory, business, data, revenue, profit, or patient-care-related damages arising out of or related to the use of, inability to use, misuse of, or reliance on OceanWoundsWayfinder.
Where liability cannot be fully disclaimed, it shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
15. Acceptance of Terms
By creating an account, requesting access, signing in, or continuing to use OceanWoundsWayfinder, the user acknowledges that OceanWoundsWayfinder is a support tool only and does not replace licensed healthcare professionals, clinical judgment, direct patient assessment, medical orders, or the standards of care required in wound treatment. The user accepts responsibility for reviewing, verifying, and applying any information generated by OceanWoundsWayfinder before using it in patient care.
16. Contact
Questions about access, approvals, account administration, or these terms should be directed to the organization or administrator controlling the deployment, unless a separate written support or license agreement provides another contact path.