Key Highlights: CDC's 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats

AI in Healthcare : Threat or Promise

December 6, 2019

As the buzz around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is increasing, there is an increased perception of threat to existing healthcare provider roles in the ecosystem. Most stakeholders are concerned that with the wide availability of AI based software in health, their current roles at least in the present form will cease […]

Key Highlights: CDC’s 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats

November 29, 2019

CDC recently released United States Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Threats Report’2019 sharing the updated information on increasing AR in the country and its consequences, team ZEVAC thoroughly read the report & collated the main insights from the report for quick reference.Shared below are our key takeaways of the report on how situation has evolved since 2013 […]

Health Information Exchange: Benefits & Risks

November 22, 2019

Need of HIE “I was stunned when my son for a year was battling stage 4 glioblastoma & couldn’t get his records (from one hospital to another). I’m the vice president of the United States of America … It was an absolute nightmare. It was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous, that we’re in that circumstance.”— Joe Biden […]

The Unpredictable Bugs

November 15, 2019

Bacteria are cleverer than one can imagine. They often mutate their DNA to cope up with antibiotics, they are treated with. Further, they can horizontally transfer genetic information to other bacteria in the clan by plasmid exchange. These abilities make them invincible dwellers of our bodies and environment. Development of drug resistance in this manner […]

Antimicrobial Resistance – A global threat

November 9, 2019

“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin is morally responsible for the death of the man who finally succumbs to infection with penicillin resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.“ by Sir Alexander Fleming. (Noted in an interview, New York Times, 1945) With the discovery of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming raised his concerns regarding […]

AMR Awareness in Developing Nations

November 1, 2019

AMR (antimicrobial resistance) has become an urgent global health concern of recent times . The crisis is taking its toll over mankind throughout the globe may it be developed or developing part of the world. The healthcare professionals and related organisations throughout the world are in consensus and have agreed that AMR is one of […]

Right Drug at the Right Time: A Clinician’s Dilemma

October 25, 2019

A 75 year old male patient presents to the ER with signs of sepsis with no obvious focus of infection. The emergency physician needs to manage a likely infection along with supportive therapy. Let’s take a sneak peek into what goes on in her/his mind… Stage 1: Well, old man with severe infection, I probably […]

Machine Learning based prediction of antibiotic sensitivity in patients with critical illness

October 24, 2019

Debabrata Ghosh1, Shivam Sharma1, Eeshan Hasan1, Shabhina Ashraf1, Vaibhav Singh1, Dinesh Tewari1, Seema Singh1, Mudit Kapoor1,2 and Debarka Sengupta1,3 1Circle of Life Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India 2Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India 3Centre for Computational Biology and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT, Delhi, India Abstract Rising antibiotic resistance […]

Key Highlights: CDC’s 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats

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