The International Rescue Committee is set to bring electronic health records to its facility in Monrovia, Libera, Dec. 15, according to a report from TIME.
The system will be hosted on Sony tablets that are waterproof and can thus be brought into high-risk zones. After the unit closes, the devices will be destroyed, though the data will be hosted elsewhere.
With digitizing records of treatment and health decision-making in the facility, IRC staff focused on the Ebola epidemic hope that treatment will improve based on evidence-based decision-making facilitated by data collection.
"We think this has the potential to really change not only how quality and safety is addressed in an Ebola situation, but it can also be adapted to any health care situation," said Wilson Wang, MD, IRC's senior clinical advisor for Ebola response to TIME.
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