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Digitisation to boost immunisation coverage

Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Because of it an estimated 2 – 3 million deaths per year are averted, according to a recent report.

In 2017, a record of 123 million children were immunised globally. Effective immunisation programs have led to a world closer to eradicating polio, while measles vaccination has resulted in an 84% drop in deaths during 2000-2016.

Despite these achievements, progress on immunisation has slowed down in the current decade. As of August 2018, 71 countries have yet to achieve the Global Vaccine Action Plan target of 90%, or having greater coverage of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) vaccine.

Significant efforts and resources are dedicated to supporting, maintaining, and improving immunisation strategies to achieve the goals set by national and international health agencies.

However, maintaining a high-performance immunisation program is one of the most challenging public health objectives.

A plethora of issues have become real threats for maintaining coverage, running effective surveillance, and allowing immunisation programs to react in a timely manner to new problems.

These issues include logistics management, under-reporting and under-recognition of adverse effects following immunisation, reduction of public confidence in vaccinations, and lack of effective communication strategy for vaccine promotion.

One way forward is to adopt rapidly developing digital health tools that offer solutions to improve service delivery.

Digitisation can help boost the capability of providers to make immunisation health value chains more efficient and resilient.

Digital tools are highly productive in several vaccine-related areas such as immunisation registries, dose tracking, and decision support systems.

Digital tools can also contribute in vaccine-preventable diseases surveillance, surveillance of adverse events following immunisation, vaccine confidence monitoring, and delivery of information on vaccines to the public.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a powerful tool to identify gaps and inequities in access to immunisation services.

It would contribute to improved decision support systems, leading to effective and efficient service delivery.

Moreover, GIS will support better decision-making on targeting immunisation resources.

It will help in integrating, visualising and analysing data on immunisation resources, population distribution and the connecting geographic environment as well as model accessibility to health services.

Having a better integration of immunisation information system as well as a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) data architecture has the potential to provide transformative improvements in both systems.

It will address the issue of resource constraint settings by streamlining and extending registration coverage, integrating data from multiple systems, and securely storing data at scale.

More importantly, all will be done in a cost-effective way.

A fully functioning CRVS data will be able to support health programs since it makes real-time data available to expand immunisation coverage. Health workers, for instance, can notify civil registrars of births and deaths.

A digital architecture is essential to attain interoperability between health programs, CRVS, and related systems such as unique health identifiers.

To achieve interoperability, it is vital to work with communities to address issues of confidentiality, privacy, and data security within a sound legal and governance framework.

Joint capacities and human resources need to be developed to implement the innovations.

Social workers, case managers, school employees, and community health workers must be trained on notifications of births and deaths to guarantee that these are officially registered according to international standards.

Having a Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) will aid in providing data on vaccine supply and demand, thereby reaching more children with greater efficiency.

Digitisation can improve LMIS through a standardised data collection, quick data transmission throughout the system, error reduction, and automated reports that highlight the best course of action.

Strong vaccine supply chains guarantee that children have access to the right vaccines, at the right time, in the right place.

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Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

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CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

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Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

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SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

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HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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