LuminaCare Solutions, a biotech software developer that produced a predictive analytics tool for calculating patient’s resistance profile to hospital acquired infections, is raising a fresh round of capital to do pilot studies in the U.S., South Africa and U.K. It comes against a backdrop of President Barack Obama’s initiative to make fighting the superbug threat […]
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. […]
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.