Electronic Communication, Monitoring Help Guinea In Efforts To End Ebola Epidemic

IntraHealth International’s “Vital”: As Ebola Resurges in Guinea, So Do Government Efforts to Quash It
Kayode Odusote, chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Health Development, discusses his trip to Guinea “to help the Ministry of Health roll out mHero, a new communication platform that connects health workers to health officials, to each other, and to critical information through the basic mobile phones that most health workers already have” and “iHRIS, IntraHealth’s free, open source software that helps health sectors replace scattershot, paper-based filing systems with electronic personnel records and databases that are easier to share, manage, and update” (4/13).

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