Intensive Care for Ebola

Client: Luke Jones, TPP <luke.jones@tpp-uk.com>

One of the major challenges in Ebola outbreak regions is information management. Most patient care is done by people with neither medical or IT experience, and often low levels of literacy. Their training is often only 3 or 4 days, mostly focusing on hygiene and use of protective clothing. Your goal is to create an electronic patient record system that will run on a smartphone, suited to the network connections, power supply and hardware limitations in rural Africa. The system should help regular collection and progression monitoring of symptom reports and vital signs as would be done in a hospital intensive care unit, for example using TPP's SystmOne. It might also present users with advice on triage and patient care. Deployment should be easily customisable for local languages, and provide mechanisms to feed data back to international coordination bodies such as the World Health Organisation.