Health IT Outcomes July 11, 2019
Today the healthcare industry is facing numerous instances of drug-resistant, infectious disease outbreaks, many of which have been exacerbated by misdiagnosis and mistreatment with frontline antibiotics. Elderly individuals, particularly those living in long-term care facilities, are especially vulnerable to infections. In these settings, a delayed diagnosis or mistreatment gives drug-resistant pathogens an opportunity to spread rapidly, leading to an outbreak event that might otherwise have been avoided.
Fortunately, new technologies are emerging in the diagnostic and digital health space which enable doctors to properly identify infection strains faster than ever before and gain insights on which treatment courses will be most effective to not only eradicate the strain in the individual patient, but also to prevent transmission to other high-risk...
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