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Celebrating diversity : HaystackAnalytics team in their office .

Celebrating diversity : HaystackAnalytics team in their office .

HealthTech offering a single test for 18 medications used to treat TB . By developing a universal infectious disease test , it enables clinicians to initiate the appropriate course of treatment by identifying 400 + pathogens ( which can be increased to 1200 + pathogens ) and coinfections in less than 12 hours . The end-user , the patient , the clinician , or the doctor may have the necessary information on the first day the test results are returned , which also implies eliminating the need for years-old cultural procedures and several diagnostic tests . The platform will be able to use genetic data to prevent disease outbreaks , unlike existing diagnostic procedures , which help to identify disease outbreaks . This is another benefit that a platform like HaystackAnalytics offers , particularly when employed in a public health environment .

By employing cutting-edge technologies and optimizing their testing processes , HaystackAnalytics has been able to eliminate the need for additional tests , thereby reducing the overall cost for patients . Gaurav explains : “ The present 5-day test regimen , whose total expense is about 20,000 whereas our TB test costs
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