Fwd: Guinea - real-time data system - What We’ve Learned About Fighting Ebola - Harvard Business Review

All Africa RSs, WA MPHISE
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Data. WG

Dr. Michael D. McDonald

Coordinator
Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance

Chairman
Global Resilience Systems, Inc.

President
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com
202-468-7899

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> From: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Date: July 21, 2015 at 1:32:13 AM EDT
> To: michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com, edrame@yahoo.fr
> Cc: ghurlburt@change-index.com
> Subject: Guinea - real-time data system - What We’ve Learned About Fighting Ebola - Harvard Business Review
>
> Mike / Elhadj
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> FYI . . . in Guinea, a real-time data system for tracking “contacts” with a smartphone app that uploads into a cloud-based dashboard is being piloted alongside the traditional paper-based system and will only replace paper when it is clear the real-time system performs better.
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> What We’ve Learned About Fighting Ebola
> https://hbr.org/2015/07/what-weve-learned-about-fighting-ebola
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> Mobile app promises to speed Ebola response in Guinea
> http://www.unfpa.org/news/mobile-app-promises-speed-ebola-response-guinea
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> Ranu S. Dhillon, MD, is an advisor to the president of Guinea and the country’s National Ebola Coordination Cell. He is in the division of global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is a senior health advisor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
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> Kathy