Google's New Tablet for the fight aginst ebola

Due to the risk of contamination, he would take notes on pieces of paper and walk the piece of paper to the edge of the fenced area and yell the information to someone on the other side of a fence, and later burn or destroy the piece of paper. “The paper can’t come out of the high-risk zone,” Ivan Gayton says.

Ivan Gayton called Google again, and the company responded with a new piece of equipment  a computer tablet that could take the place of those paper notes and all that yelling over the fence.

Google helped build a specialized Android tablet where doctors could record medical information from inside the high-risk zone and then send it wirelessly to servers on the outside of the high-risk zone. Here in everyday America, a wireless tablet may seem like the basic technology, But in the middle of an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has limited internet and other tech infrastructure, it’s not basic technology.The tablet can be dipped in chlorine and removed from the facility, and the server runs on battery power. “It’s very impressive, and it’s unique.”says  Dr. Eric D. Perakslis.

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Ivan Gayton. Credit: Médecins Sans Frontières. Dr. Eric D. Perakslis,