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Hospital-acquired Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) per year.

Hospital out of pocket cost to treat all Catheter Acquired Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) per year.

Average Hospital out-of pocket cost to treat one CAUTI.

Deaths per year.

Urine is NOT sterile; it has a microbiome (urobiome). The urobiome is the aggregate of the microbiota and microbiomes of the urinary tract.   The urobiome protects and regulates the bladder!

"cUTI", the term itself is an unfortunate and misleading misnomer.  It's NOT truly an "infection", but it's primarily diagnosed and treated that way.  Today, antibiotics are the primary treatment for cUTI.

But, eradicating all of the body’s microbiomes with systemic antibiotics to treat one microbiome is literally overkill, akin to systemic chemotherapy to treat an isolated tumor.

The common next-generation practitioner formal education and clinical practice for cUTI incorrectly defines the problem, and therefore diagnosis, and treatment.

A well-intentioned public-private health insurance system yields a bogged down with high regulatory compliance, reporting, and liability litigation, which promotes the antithesis of patient-focused health outcomes.

For ourselves, our families, our communities, our country, and our global societies, we have the freedom, liberty, responsibility, and accountability for our own health outcomes.  Our patient health outcome is at the top of our list and we want a world where we are all working together to define the bladder health journey that works for each of us and in the way we want to work with our health practitioners, institutions, and regulatory bodies in person, virtually, and through a mutually agreed upon information and data sharing trusted governance system.

Health innovators and national and non-profit grants have already focused over $10M in U.S publicly accessible information regarding new healthy urinary tract microbiome balance research.  The results are very clear and very natural.  They are the blend of the best natural probiotics in foods and supplements for preventative and targeted imbalances; as well as "scorched earth" antibiotic treatment when necessary and appropriate.

As health institutions and practitioners, our business enterprise and personal career journey is rooted in a patient-focused health journey and outcomes responding to healthy bladder microbiome imbalances.  New bladder health innovation breakthroughs now make that possible, feasible, and very attractive for our health institution employers.

There now exists the architectural framework, standards, and intentional convergence of open standards, open source, and an interoperability-focused and patient-focused health-based trusted digital ecosystem for both every day highly-regulated transactional patient-focused services and payments but also peer-to-peer (non-intermediary) trusted digital relationships and information and data access sharing, monetization, and preventative lifestyle mobile and web applications.

There is an opportunity for the development of accredited and non-accredited curricula for the advancement of patient-focused urobiome tracking, balance, and treatment.

Forward-leaning health institutions can be a hub of knowledge, learning, and advancement of a patient-focused and societal public benefit while also partnering with the public and private sectors for learning situations and mentorships for next-generation health practitioners specializing in urinary tract microbiome balance.