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Ebola Cases Put Focus On Health IT Needs

John W. Loonsk | Healthcare IT News | October 22, 2014

The Ebola cases in the United States, despite their limited numbers, have generated considerable discussion and anxiety. The discussion has included health IT because of the initial assertion that the Dallas hospital electronic health record led to the first U.S. Ebola case being sent home...

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Ebola Now Threatens National Security In West Africa

Dina Fine Maron | Nature | September 3, 2014

The Ebola virus outbreak entrenched in west Africa has become a real risk to the stability and security of society in the region, the top US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said today after returning yesterday from a visit there...

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Ebola Outbreak: 'We'll Do Whatever It Takes To Protect UK' says Philip Hammond

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | July 30, 2014

The [United Kingdom's] Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he will work with infectious disease experts to do 'whatever it takes' to protect the UK from the largest ever outbreak of the Ebola virus, which is currently sweeping West Africa...

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Ebola Outbreak: Deadly Foreign Diseases Are 'Potential Major Threat' Says [UKs] Chief Scientist

Sarah Knapton | The Telegraph | July 30, 2014

Sir Mark Walport, the [United Kingdom] government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, said that the increasingly ‘interconnected’ world was placing Britons at risk from imported foreign diseases...

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Ebola Outbreak: UK Border Not Prepared For Virus Warns Immigration Service Union

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | July 31, 2014

General Secretary of the Immigration Service Union (ISU) Lucy Moreton says the border is not prepared to deal with the Ebola outbreak and staff do not know what to do if they suspect someone of being sick...

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Ebola Outbreak: Where Are The mHealth Apps?

Staff Writer | mHealth News | October 8, 2014

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and now the U.S. is surely among the most high-profile incidents wherein mobile health technologies could have proven their mettle. While some apps are already effective tools for public health workers, the sense in the industry is that apps are not being leveraged to the fullest extent and that more coordination is needed to use them as an asset...

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Ebola Victim Widow: I Fear An Outbreak In The US

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | July 30, 2014

The American widow of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian government official who died after contracting Ebola says she fears that there could be an outbreak of the virus in the US...

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Ebola, EHRs, And The Blame Game

Deborah Peel | The Health Care Blog | October 23, 2014

It’s time to think carefully and look at the large systems (human and technical), institutions, and individuals that contributed to Mr. Duncan’s death. Systems should be designed to protect people and prevent human errors...

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Ebola: A Call To Action For OpenMRS

Paul Biondich | OpenMRS | October 20, 2014

...The OpenMRS community has long recognized that in many of the countries where our software is used, the public health system is weak. Over the past several months, the world has been faced with the consequences of this weakness in West Africa, as nations struggle to contain the deadly Ebola virus...

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Ebola: Voices From The Epicentre Of The Epidemic

Emilie Filou | The Guardian | July 14, 2014

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is unrelenting: according to the World Health Organisation there have now been 888 cases and 539 deaths across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since the virus was first reported in March this year. The epidemic is unprecedented and the global health community has been left scrambling to contain the disease, for which there is no vaccine or cure...

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Ebola’s Deadly Spread In Africa Driven By Public Health Failures, Cultural Beliefs

Dick Thompson | National Geographic | July 2, 2014

As the largest Ebola outbreak in history continues unabated, health authorities from 11 West African countries and international agencies began a two-day crisis meeting today in Accra, Ghana, on how to combat the crisis...

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Emergency Department Design: Three Ways To Contain Superbugs

Katheryn Fricke | MEDCITY News | August 27, 2014

Today, the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa is turning attention to the strategies hospitals use to contain infectious diseases. How do emergency departments serve and treat highly contagious patients while keeping other patients, clinicians, and the community at large safe?...

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European Inventor Armed With Lab-On-A-Chip Fights Infectious Disease And Personalizes Skin Care

Tina Shah | Tech Times | January 20, 2015

Some argue antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of microbes to develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs, is a growing threat. Others say superbugs are already here, citing the increase in strains of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis worldwide and the spread of staph infections...

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Exclusive: Controversial US scientist Creates Deadly New Flu Strain For Pandemic Research

Steve Connor | The Independent | July 1, 2014

...Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has genetically manipulated the 2009 strain of pandemic flu in order for it to “escape” the control of the immune system’s neutralising antibodies, effectively making the human population defenceless against its reemergence...

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Free Ebola Online Courses Now Available From The University Of Nebraska Medical Center And Its Hospital Partner, Nebraska Medicine

Press Release | University of Nebraska Medical Center , Nebraska Medicine | October 27, 2014

The University of Nebraska Medical Center and its primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, are launching two free online Ebola education courses. The downloadable courses will provide easy-to-understand instruction and resources for health care professionals, as well as the general public...

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