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An app that tracks the presence of superbugs and their sensitivities to drugs by ZIP code is making the rounds among doctors in the US. The app, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since it was released in early October, shot to the top of the Apple App Store’s free medical app list in its first week alone and now boasts an average user rating of 4+ stars.
Epocrates Bugs + Drugs, a free app for iOS devices, uses aggregated electronic health record (EHR) data and geotagging to help users see both superbug prevalence and sensitivity to drugs by location. The developers, Athenahealth and Epocrates, add more than 6,000 lab isolate data points (from urine, blood, and skin samples) every day to keep the results fresh.
While the app isn’t for a layperson — unless you’re into regular confirmation that E. coli is alive and well all around us — its clinical use is clearly anything but niche. Results that are pulled from Athenahealth’s cloud-based clinical database of 15 million patient records can be viewed by specimen type an… [Read more]
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