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10x speaker Eric Rasmussen flies on Thursday to a White House meeting about improving the safety of healthcare workers treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

He wants to bring the Group’s ideas with him. Please leave your comment today here or at http://bit.ly/WH-ebola so he gets them in time.

Make it a great week.

Joe Hage
Founding Principal,
Medical Devices Advisory Group

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Joe Hage
🔥 Find me at MedicalDevicesGroup.net 🔥
Great news! This just in from Eric Rasmussen, who traveled to Washington this week:

Colleagues,

Thank you for all of this.

I’ve just completed two days of meetings in DC around good ideas related to the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa. I carried with me a 12-slide presentation filled with ideas submitted to me by you and people like you over the past week.

In the room for the discussion were representatives from the White House, USAID, MSF Liberia, MSF Belgium, HHS, DoD, CDC, UN relief agencies, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and a range of people with on-the-ground experience in West Africa for a variety of reasons.

People in this thread received a positive comment during the evaluation of the options I presented.

Now you need to please submit that idea to the beginning of the funding mechanism and see if it is selected for further development.

I have no voice in that selection, and would recuse myself if I did, but I can tell you that the people doing the selecting heard your idea and considered it worth a submission.

So, if you’re interested in possibly making your idea real in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, please go to the just-established Open Ideo Ebola website below and tell us about it:

[https://openideo.com/content/fighting-ebola|leo://plh/https%3A*3*3openideo%2Ecom*3content*3fighting-ebola/ImUu?_t=tracking_disc]

You may have given me more than one idea. Submit any and all, separately.

I will continue to be involved in the Ebola response, particularly on the design of the critical field infrastructure related to the Ebola Treatment Units. That work may or may not involve your idea.

Good luck,
Eric

Ronald MacAuley BS-BA, MBA (HSA)
Seeking an Administrative role in a Healthcare entity where my skill-set and academic training can be well utilized.
Thank you Barbara k for liking my comment, and thank you Joe Hage for your recognition.

Dr. Vikash Boodhun, you are on to a good idea here. As we already have the World Health Organization, the WHO can oversee the rollout of such a global health-education program. If adequate resources, combined with appropriately skilled personnel are deployed expediently, there is a strong possibility that the world will see another global success story similar to the global fight against small-pox.

Cheetbahal (Vikash) Boodhun, MD
Family Medicine Resident at Université Laval
Given that we still do not have a cure for Ebola, containment coupled with screening should be maximized.
Compulsory basic education on Ebola should be given to the whole population so that early detection can be done. Of course, there’ll be a lot of false alerts, but weighing that against the possibility of an epidemic, I think it’s an acceptable drawback.
By basic education, I mean real interactive meetings at the workplaces and schools.
Use the pyramid system, 1 preaches 10; then these 10 in turn will preach another 10 people each etc.
These education sessions should be favored over way too simplistic adverts to avoid panic; you want the population to be aware, not panicked.
Quarantine wards should be easily accessible.
Information desk and medical teams standing by at all the major influx of people in the country (airports, ports etc), their purpose being information and intervention as a required.
For the containment process, use of military power where required. Chaotic degeneration of containment centres is always possible.
Regular screening of those working on the field, including the military forces, and removal of any personnel showing signs of paranoia against those sick.
We have to be realistic, if we don’t invest in the control of this disease now, it has the potential and will degenerate in a pandemic.

Joe Hage
🔥 Find me at MedicalDevicesGroup.net 🔥
Smart idea, Ronald, thanks!

Ronald MacAuley BS-BA, MBA (HSA)
Seeking an Administrative role in a Healthcare entity where my skill-set and academic training can be well utilized.
An adaptation of the systems used to curb the CJD (mad cow diseases) in the UK during the 90’s, combined with the Avian-flu precautions would provide a strong controlling foundation to arrest the spread of Ebola until better systems are conceived.

SONDRA COHEN
Hospital & Health Care Professional
Cannot over emphasize the importance of communication one on one in addition to use of systems as
we learned from the Dallas patient
whose nurse entered the needed data
In computer but it wasn’t read!!
Communicate communicate communicate!!