Ebola: the communication mishap had to do with information system setup. very informative article.

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10. Just days before the hospital had a drill for possible Ebola cases.

How was this not noticed then? This hospital was supposed to be trained to handle Ebola cases. This is not a facility which claimed to not be prepared before the man walked in the door.

Also, the claim his "overall clinical presentation" of fever and abdominal pain in a person who had just traveled here from West Africa wasn't an implication he had Ebola by the vice president for the hospital system Dr. Mark Lester, begs the question of what is an implication? Since this patient had Ebola, and his symptoms and travel history weren't enough to have him put into isolation upon their being know by the first level of screening staff, what is the requirements?

Lastly, the fact that they're saying if he'd told them he'd been in contact with a person who had Ebola they'd have dealt with it differently is eyebrow raising. Well, what about hypothetical person who travels here from West Africa who was in contact with a symptomatic Ebola person, but never realized it and contracted the disease? How are they going to know to isolate that patient?

This is a learning moment. We need to accept that mistakes were made and that they need to be addressed and dealt with in a professional manner. Then we need to make sure these mistakes are not made in the future. To try and lay all the blame on an error in the software system isn't being factual, and it's not all that needs to be corrected there.