Patrick Cheng

Patrick Cheng is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of eKare Inc., a digital health company focused on advancing wound care through imaging, structured clinical data, analytics, and AI-enabled clinical intelligence. Over the past decade, Patrick has worked with clinicians, health systems, and wound care teams to digitize wound assessment and transform routine wound documentation into longitudinal data that can support better care decisions, service improvement, and clinical governance. His work sits at the intersection of wound care practice, medical imaging, real-world evidence, and health system transformation. Rather than viewing AI as a standalone tool for image analysis or documentation automation, Patrick is interested in how AI can help connect wound images, measurements, treatment history, clinical notes, protocols, and outcomes into a more complete understanding of patient progress and care delivery. Through real-world deployments across acute, community, post-acute, and research settings in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia, Patrick has seen how structured wound data can reveal unwarranted variation, surface stalled healing, support more consistent adherence to best practice, and help clinical and operational leaders identify opportunities for earlier intervention. At WUWHS, Patrick will explore how wound care can move from isolated documentation events to continuous clinical intelligence. His perspective focuses on how AI analytics can help clinicians and service leaders interrogate real-world wound data, monitor healing trajectories, identify risk earlier, and translate insights into practical changes in care pathways, clinical workflows, and patient outcomes at scale.