Immunization

Purpose: 

Nation-wide access to the current medication of a patient. 

Relevance: 

Healthcare professionals need to determine if a vaccination should be administered at the time of a clinical encounter. The reporting to public health that a vaccination has been administered to a patient 

Domain: 
Public Health
Scale(s): 
Intra-organisational
National/Regional
Context: 

Accessibility of the immunization information both from the perspective of the clinical care needs and public health monitoring and management

Current Immunization reports of a patient is provided to the Healthcare Professional. Communication to the patient of the relevant information concerning his current and pending immunizations

Collect of the information from the vaccine that would be needed to support adverse event reporting

Information: 
Immunization information
Immunization Reporting
Vaccine history
Adverse immunization reporting
Participants: 
Healthcare professional (HP)
Pharmacist
Patient
National register
Functional process flow: 
  1. Patient visits HP
  2. HP requests the current immunization list
  3. HP views immunization history from his EHR or the HIE repository  
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