Electronic immunization registries (EIRs) are defined as "confidential, computerized, population-based systems that collect and consolidate vaccination data from vaccination providers for better immunization strategies." And evidence suggests that EIRs can help increase vaccination coverage. This is mainly related to their ability to facilitate sev...

Public-private partnerships in health care have been used widely in higher income countries as well as in lower-middle-income countries, such as Vietnam.1 The partnerships tend to bundle together multiple phases or functions of the health care system infrastructure—such as design, build, finance, maintain, operate, and service delivery.1 Such healt...

The typical week-long supportive supervision trip of national-level officers would entail two full days traveling between Hanoi and Son La province, and many hours and even days traveling from province center to district and communes on the winding and beaten-up local roads along the mountain slopes. Due to the time consuming of travel, together wi...

Eschewing the proper ten-finger typing style, her two pointed fingers darted over the keyboard like a woodpecker. It was quite amazing watching her operate the computer in her own nonconventional way—yet still, she was pretty efficient. The electronic immunization registry (EIR) didn't seem to pose much of a challenge to Mrs. Do Thi Phai, who has b...