To accompany the article “Online immunization registry transforms the work of health staff in Albania” in this month’s newsletter, project Optimize has publishedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/projectoptimize/sets/72157630314080396/" target="_blank"> a photo set on Flickr that reveals...

An interview with Silvia Bino, Albania Institute of Public Health The Institute of Public Health in Albania recently developed an online immunization registry to replace their existing paper-based system. In May 2011, the new system—named IIS—was piloted in Shkoder district. One year later, Op.ti.m...

The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been developed to estimate the impact of health interventions and can consider multiple interventions simultaneously. This new computer-based tool allows users to set up and run multiple scenarios to look at the estimated impact of different intervention packages and ...

by Erida Nelaj, Albania Institute for Public Health and Jan Grevendonk, PATH In May 2011, the Albanian Institute for Public Health (IPH) launched a new web-based immunization registry and vaccine ordering system in the district of Skodra. Based on the acceptability and success of the system in Skod...

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...

Written by: S Kibet, WHO Kenya; P Zaninka & T Rweizire, Uganda EPI; R Anderson, UW; and S Newland, PATH Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of vaccine supply chains is no easy task, especially when data is difficult to gather, financing is tight, and there is pressure to improve and ex...

Using mobile phones to track immunizations by Jørn Ivar Klungsøyr on behalf of http://www.openXdata.org (http://www.openXdata.org) and Jan Grevendonk, PATH In August 2010, the Norwegian Research Council approved funding for a new project that will allow countries to manage immunization programs wit...

Albania explores computerized immunization registries by Jan Grevendonk, PATH, and Olivier Ronveaux, WHO In early 2009, the Albanian Institute for Public Health (IPH) asked Optimize, a WHO-PATH collaboration, to develop a strategy for a computerized national immunization registry and vaccine orderin...

The Government of India's Health Ministry is developing a software which will keep a thorough record of all health campaigns, including immunisation. "The outcome of immunisation drives is not satisfactory. I asked my officers how they arrive at these figures and the reply was not very convinc...

The Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) e-Learning website recently launched a new module to help decision-making on rotavirus vaccine introduction. The module provides comprehensive information from basic disease characteristics through immunization session planning; this interactive online to...

POST 01315E: MIS IMMUNIZATION—PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE SOFTWARES FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS: 01312E & 01314E 2 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* Dear forum, I wish to highlight the problem of multiple softwares in place at the same time, and the same information being having to be ke...

POST 01314E: IMMUNIZATION MIS—TOOLS EXIST BUT USAGE DISMAL FOLLOW-UP ON POST: 01312E 30 AUGUST 2008 ******************************************* It is not the absence of Software or tool to monitor immunization. BUT the WILL to do it. RIMS and computers and a personnel provided in most districts,...

POST 01153E : STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Follow-up on Posts 01138E, 01127E and 01114E 4 September 2007 __________________________________ Dear Technet21 E-Forum, It is very encouraging that UNICEF/WHO have now produced a Vaccine Stock Management tool. At central level and regional levels, where ...

Post00244 STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 20 April 2000 CONTENTS 1. STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 1. STOCK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE As product of the Technet'90 meeting in Nicosia, a stock management software program for vaccines and other PHC commodities, equipment, and supplies was developed and tested in the...