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Robert J. Szczerba is the CEO of X Tech Ventures, an innovative company focused on solving some of today’s most challenging problems through the integration of technologies from multiple, diverse domains. This post originally appeared on Forbes. “I never go to hospitals, that’s where all the sick people are.” It’s an old joke, but, unfortunately, it has elements of truth.  Hospitals are indeed dangerous places, and the emerging statistics on hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are more dire than ever. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about 1 in every 25 inpatients has an infection related to hospital care. Each year, at…

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