BENEFITS
The eGenomics System:

  • Identifies outbreaks before they become endemic

  • Identifies non-outbreaks, allowing hospitals to avoid extreme and costly infection control measures

  • Identifies the source of endemic outbreaks and thus direct infection control efforts

  • Shares "lessons learned" with participating institutions

  • Is faster and more accurate than comparable sub-speciation techniques such as Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE).

  • Reduces the chance of acquiring a nosocomial infection

  • Reduces antibiotic usage, and thereby extend the effectiveness of existing antibiotics

  • Lowers actual costs to control infections

  • Focuses and directs infection control practices

  • Allows understaffed infection control teams to make infection control decisions based on qualitative data