Sensor enabled wound therapy dressings and systems implementing cybersecurity

A wound monitoring and/or therapy system comprising:

• a wound monitoring and/or therapy apparatus comprising a wound dressing configured to be positioned proximate a wound of a patient and a controller, the controller configured to:
• maintain a device clock indicative of a non-real time clock by counting from a random number or a unique hardware identification number,
• receive a measurement data obtained by one or more sensors supported by the wound dressing, and
• transmit the device clock along with the measurement data to a remote computing device according to a security protocol that comprises including in the transmission the device clock associated with the measurement data and not including in the transmission a patient identification information and a real time clock;
• a communication device configured to be connected to the controller and further configured to periodically receive data from the controller;
• and
• a computing device configured to be connected to the communication device, the computing device further configured to receive data from the communication device, the computing device further configured to be connected to another remote computing device configured to receive and aggregate data from the computing device.

A method of operating a wound dressing configured to be positioned in contact with a wound of a patient, the wound dressing including one or more sensors configured to obtain measurement data of at least one of the wound or a periwound, the method comprising:

• by a controller configured to be connected to or supported by the wound dressing:
• maintaining a device clock indicative of a non-real time clock by counting from a random number or a unique hardware identification number;
• receiving a measurement data obtained by the one or more sensors;
• and
• transmitting the measurement data to a remote computing device according to a security protocol by including the device clock associated with the measurement data in the transmission and not including a patient identification information and a real time clock in the transmission.