During a hernia operation, Dorothea Handron’s surgeon unknowingly pierced her bowel and sent her home. It took five days for doctors to determine she had an infection. By the time they operated on her again, she was so weakened that she was placed in a medically induced coma at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North […]
A biotech entrepreneur wants to arm physicians with an electronic companion diagnostic tool to help hospitals reduce hospital-acquired infections. Last year, antibiotic-resistant infections caused more than two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control. About 70 percent of those antibiotic-resistant infections were caused by hospital-acquired infections. […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
On any given day, about one in every 25 hospital patients acquires an infection. Preventing those infections is ideal, but hospitals don’t seem to be doing a great job of that. The next best thing is detecting and treating them as early as possible. “Everything that’s being used right now (for detection) uses either vital […]
Dirty hands and surfaces aren’t the only places loaded with bacteria in hospitals. According to Dr. David Kirschman, healthcare settings are teeming with airborne pathogens that could cause infection, but surprisingly little is being done about it. Last year, Kirschman, a neurosurgeon in Dayton, Ohio, started Aerobiotix to build devices that use UV light to […]
Analytical techniques used to spot missiles traveling at the speed of sound may be able to help clinicians identify cases of sepsis in hospitals. Security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) worked with experts in the medical field to apply its signal processing and data analytics technology to diagnostic tools. The company has developed […]
Last month two men were sentenced in the worst single Listeria outbreak in American history when 33 people died and 111 fell ill after eating contaminated cantaloupe from one farm. Life science startup Invisible Sentinel has secured approval for a Listeria test from the AOAC International, the Association of Agricultural Chemists — a nonprofit scientific […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
PhoneSoapis a box that uses UV light to sterilize your phone. The device also includes a charger, so your phone can multi-task while out of your clutches.
Physicians might be using more mobile healthcare apps, but the question of trust is one that still looms. An example of that comes this week in the form of a pharmacist’s biting review of an app from the powerhouse team of Epocrates and Athenahealth. The app in question, Bugs + Drugs, pairs Epocrates’ clinical content […]
After 19 weeks of pitching, redesigning and answering tough questions, 24 startups have been whittled down to three on Wall Street Journal’s web documentary series Startup of the Year. And a healthcare startup could very well walk away the winner. SwipeSense, a graduate of the Healthbox digital health incubator in Chicago, is leading in audience […]
Fyi, it’s world sepsis day. The toxic condition cost $14.6 billion according to 2008 stats from the Centers for Disease Control and several companies and hospitals are looking for effective ways to combat the infection or identify it in its early stages. Cytosorbents developed a filtration system for the condition. It’s signed an agreement for […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.