| Customer Segment |
Without BioSentinel® |
With BioSentinel® |
| Federal, State, & Local Public Health Departments |
- No current means to monitor or track the general or normal status of public health.
- Notification and intervention of bio-events come late in incubational development, generally only after discovery/confirmation by physician, clinic or hospital.
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- As a result of the leading indicators that are actively monitored and historically tracked, Public Health personnel are able to monitor, in real time, the ongoing syndromic status of general public health.
- Public health personnel are among the first to be proactively notified to any anomalies. Armed with symptom or syndromic profile detail and geographic pinpointing, epidemiologists can more effectively focus their investigatory efforts and appropriate resources can be allocated where most needed.
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| Federal, State, & Local Emergency Management |
- Response/Intervention often occurs after emergency is already in progress.
- No present means of advance warning of impending bio-event related emergency.
- Assessment and acquisition of needed equipment and supplies are currently done during emergency.
- Stockpiling of all needed equipment and supplies is expensive and impractical.
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- Early warning alerts make it possible to geographically pinpoint where emergency response resources will be necessary in advance of situation escalating to the level of "emergency".
- As a result of symptom monitoring, Federal, State, and Local emergency management personnel have a more accurate estimation of the type of equipment and supplies they will need to provide effective emergency intervention.
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| Hospital ER's / Clinics |
- Beds, staffing levels and supplies are already at or near capacity.
- Bioterrorist and outbreak drills have indicated that most hospitals and clinics quickly exceed capacity, lacking availability of specifically needed medical expertise, needed medications, vital equipment, and essential supplies.
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- Before a bio-event escalates to large casualties, Hospitals and Clinics, having been alerted days in advance to the impending situation, can have the necessary staff, personnel and supplies ready in preparation for appropriate intervention.
- Response and intervention can be proactive instead of reactive.
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| Large Primary Care Physician Practices |
- Currently on the front line of health related events, primary care physicians are among the first in the healthcare community to come in contact with bio-event induced illness.
- Initial symptoms of most bioterrorist agents are indistinguishable from the common flu leading to the high likelihood of misdiagnosis.
- Lab tests for specific bio-agents are expensive and generally only performed in the most obvious of situations.
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- Armed with the foreknowledge of an unusual health event occurring within their area of practice, primary care physicians can be more informed and discerning regarding calls from patients experiencing "flu-like symptoms".
- Patients complaining of symptoms consistent with elevated syndromic activity can be triaged more accurately and effectively.
- Instead of prescribing common flu remedies, primary care physicians can directly intervene with necessary care and expedite the advanced lab tests needed to confirm the presence and/or the identity of the specific bio-agent.
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