An application that uses big data to enable clinicians to track superbug transmission in their region has reached 100,000 downloads in less than a month.In its first week, the " Bugs Drugs" app, created by medical software vendor Epocrates, shot to the number one free medical app spot in Apple's App Store when it was released last month.The app was created to track antibiotic resistant bacteria or "superbugs" such as e.coli and staph.A screen shot of Epocrates' Bugs Drugs app on an iPhone.Every year more than 2 million people in the U.S. contract infections that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Many clinicians who work outside of
