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by Dao Ding Sang and Vu Minh Huong, PATH Over the last three years, Optimize has been working with Vietnam’s National Expanded Programme on Immunization (NEPI) to pilot a new computerized logistics management information system. The new system, named VaxTrak, is designed to help immunization health...
by Ryan McWhorter, Logistimo, and Dan Brigden, PATH To accompany the article “South Sudan deploys new mobile phone-based stock management tool” in this month’s newsletter, project Optimize has published a photo set on Flickr that reveals how the new logistics management information system created b...
by Morris Gargar, Consultant; Elly Tumwine, UNICEF; and Ryan McWhorter, Logistimo The Government of the Republic of South Sudan is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and project Optimize to test a cloud-based logistics management information system (LMIS) that uses mobile phon...
by Dr. Joyce Charo, DVI, Kenya and Dr. Anthony Ngatia, CHAI A web-based stock management tool has just been deployed in five regional stores across Kenya. The goal is to ensure the availability of vaccines by reducing stockouts and improving vaccine program performance. Dr. Joyce Charo from the Div...
by Dr. Nguyen Van Cuong, NEPI and Joanie Robertson, PATH Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology is collaborating with project Optimize to demonstrate the benefits of a computerized immunization registry. In January 2012, a new computerized immunization registry was piloted by Viet...
Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for suggesting that this summary be posted here. Cross-posted from the PAHO Immunization Newsletter, December 2011.
In January 2010, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) began piloting a software to manage and control vaccines, syringes and other supply inven...
by Mojtaba Haghgou, consultant, and Ramzi Ouichi, WHO
A web-based version of the Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) tool has been successfully deployed in Iran. Now, project Optimize is collaborating with the Tunisian Ministry of Health to field-test wVSSM in Tunisia.
VSSM is an open...
An interesting article from pharma-iq.com on RFID and real time monitoring to deliver temperature sensitive drugs. Comments? http://www.pharma-iq.com/cold-chain/articles/cold-chain-logistics-in-healthcare-a-modern-altern/&mac=PharmaIQ_OI_Featured_2011&utm_source=pharma-iq.com&utm_medium=email&utm_ca...
by Jan Grevendonk and Elaine Griffith, PATH and Anup Akkihal, Logistimo
One of the perennial struggles in any supply chain is to deliver the right amount of product to the right place at the right time. This is especially true for essential medicines and temperature-sensitive products like vaccin...
by Leah Hasselback, VillageReach and Jan Grevendonk, PATH As more and more countries consider the move from paper-based systems to electronic health information systems, there is a pressing need for global coordination and collaboration among efforts. This is particularly true in the emerging and f...
by David Lubinski, PATH; Wendy Bomett-Dodie, USAID | Deliver; and Chipopa Kazuma, Medical Stores Limited, Zambia In February 2011, Zambia’s Ministry of Health invited partners involved in supply chain management to help them develop a shared vision, roadmap, and user requirements for a logistics ma...
The impact of financial and organizational logistics actions on health programs remain a major challenge for managers of health. Indeed, the logistics as essential support to build and complete a program of health must be optimized in terms of cost and efficiency for implementation of quality health...
VSSM INTRODUCTION AT NATIONAL VACCINE STORE ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
(By Ghulam Taqi)
Country Background:
Pakistan is the largest country in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region:
With Four Provinces and three areasThe total population approximately 167 million.Annual Birth Cohort approx...
Toward a global framework for e-health information systems by David Lubinski and Jan Grevendonk, PATH Improving health outcomes through strengthened platforms and systems has emerged as a guiding principle of donors and multilateral agencies. A key building block for this effort will be the develop...
Vaccination Supplies Stock Management (VSSM) was first developed in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) in late 2006 and the later versions were developed by receiving support from WHO HQs. VSSM has been used in Sudan and Egypt and recently was installed in Laos, Iran, Uzbekistan and no...
POST 01250E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT (CCM) TOOL RELEASED 4 APRIL 2008 ******************************************* Dear Technet21 colleagues, PATH, in partnership with WHO and UNICEF, is pleased to announce the release of the Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) Tool version 1.0. This ...
Post00324 VACCINE VOLUME IMPACT CALCULATOR 27 February 2001 CONTENTS 1. VACCINE VOLUME CALCULATOR: REQUEST FOR TESTING 2. THE DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CALCULATOR 1. VACCINE VOLUME CALCULATOR: REQUEST FOR TESTING Ulla Kou, WHO V&B, has kindly sent a spreadsheet based vaccine volume calculat...
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