CDC announces smartphone coaching app for Ebola workers

CGN                                                    April 17, 2015

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a free smartphone application that provides intuitive coaching on CDC's guidelines for proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent transmission of Ebola.

Powered by 22otters, a mobile patient engagement platform, CDC's PPE app is an animated, speech-enabled, step-by-step mobile coaching tool to help healthcare workers access easy-to-follow directions for putting on and removing PPE and respirators in accordance with CDC guidelines to prevent transmission of Ebola. Following the initial Ebola app release, 22otters will release a variant of the app allowing training progress tracking and content modules customized for providers.

The recent transmission of Ebola to nurses underscores the need to ensure that all healthcare workers have immediate access to these guidelines. Even when hospitals offer ongoing training, it can be difficult to remember all the details of safely donning and removing of a gown, mask, gloves, face shield and booties when confronted with a patient who might have a life-threatening infectious disease. The CDC app is designed to provide needed just-in-time (JIT) training that can be reviewed in just a few minutes.

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