Zenosense is
developing and intends to market a novel device to enable hospitals to detect Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacterial contamination, a major constituent of
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs). The annual costs of treating hospitalized
MRSA patients are estimated to be between $3.2 billion and $4.2 billion in the United
States alone. MRSA infected patients are likely to spend three times as long in
a hospital stay at three times the cost, and are five times more likely to die
than an uninfected patient.
Early detection of
MRSA and HAIs in general is vital. Recent studies suggest that implementing
prevention practices can lead to up to a 70 percent reduction in certain HAIs
with a financial benefit of using these prevention practices estimated to be as
high as $25.0 billion to $31.5 billion in medical cost savings in the United
States alone (according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, part of the US Department of Health and Human Sciences). Currently,
no cost effective early detection device is available.
The Zenosense MRSA
detection device is expected to act like a “smoke detector” for MRSA; designed
to detect MRSA in the environment or infected patient, even before a patient
demonstrates any obvious symptoms, satisfying this huge unmet need.
Zenosense has an
agreement with leading European sensor developer Sgenia Group, which is
developing such a device exclusively for Zenosense through their subsidiary
Zenon Biosystem. The estimated manufacturing cost per device is under $100 USD
and possibly as low as $50 USD. The Zenosense device, utilizing established
Sgenia programming and patent-pending hardware, utilizes a single sensor to
perform an infinite number of scans, creating tens of thousands of “virtual
sensors”. The low cost and compact design of the Zenosense device, if
successfully developed, would make it possible to be worn by individuals, as
well as placed in numerous sensitive areas in the healthcare setting.
Zenosense has a
streamlined management team experienced in high-level marketing in the medical
sector, supported by the outsourced Zenon Biosystem scientific/development team
of qualified personnel with extensive knowledge and experience in the
development of sensors. Both of these teams will fuse together through a high
level advisory board of experienced professionals. A cost-effective Zenosense
MRSA detection device, once developed, is expected to be in high demand, driven
by patient safety, cost and insurance considerations.
For more
information, visit www.zenosense.net
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