An injection of innovation for children’s vaccination. A centralized, digital vaccine registry would give parents and health care professionals the information needed to keep immunization records up to date for kids. via The Globe and Mail https://lnkd.in/gVE4cms2
Ian Culbert
1d
Public health has been calling for interoperable provincial and territorial vaccine registries for over 20 years!
Andrew Kett
1d
Yes! And it practically already exists! It’s been deployed in Nova Scotia for a number of years and has been very successful - a cloud-based platform developed by a Canadian company called CANImmunize! 🇨🇦🍁 Cameron Bell Paul Haycraft Kathryn MacDonald 🇨🇦
André, I completely agree — but that would require provinces to actually share.
thank you for this! This is a huge need and we must raise awareness of the impacts and importance in terms of health security and readiness
Michael Falk
1d
Cue the conspiracy “theorists” to start claiming some nefarious purpose here!!
Jeremy Albisser
23h
André Picard a very easy task, and not even that costly. Apparently even a simple vaccine registry is beyond the skills of Canadian eHealth procurement now.
Philip Allan
1d
Good idea. It should be combined with a requirement for certain vaccines to be compulsory (MMR and others as required). Measles was largely eradicated and we can regain that status once again if we are serious.
Health columnist at The Globe and Mail
1dFrom the archives: Now, more than ever, we need a national vaccination plan with, at its core, a vaccine registry (2017), by André Picard https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/now-more-than-ever-we-need-a-national-vaccination-plan/article34924369/