Webinar: DHIS2 COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Toolkit (French, Portuguese & Spanish)
This week, the University of Oslo and the HISP network will host webinars on the DHIS2 COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Toolkit for our French-, Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking audiences. These events ar
IDEAL-VN Case Study Release! Vietnam's experience in the design, development and deployment of an EIR
PATH's Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Introducing Digital Immunization information systems: Exchange and Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) project is very excited to announce t
Discussion: The IDEAL-Vietnam project would like global feedback and collaboration on the topic of, “Partnering with Mobile Network Operators for electronic immunization registry application”, after the release of the project’s first case study.
The PATH, Introducing Digital immunization information systems- Exchange and Learning (IDEAL) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is excited to release the first lessons lear
Avez-vous un intérêt pour les registres numériques de vaccination (RNV)?
La Fondation Apprendre Genève a le plaisir d'annoncer le lancement par
Are you interested in Electronic Immunization Registries (EIR)?
We are pleased to announce that the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) has just launched its Scholar programme with an inaugural course in Spanish on
CURSO DE OPS/OMS EN SCHOLAR SOBRE PLANEACIÓN E IMPLEMENTACIÓN DEL REGISTRO NOMINAL DE VACUNACIÓN ELECTRÓNICO
La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) le invita a postular al primer grupo del Curso de Certificación Nivel 1 sobre Planeación, Implementación y Evaluación del Registro de Vacunación
New articles: The BID Initiative featured in MMS Bulletin #148 "Digital Health - A Blessing or Curse for Global Health?"
The BID Initiative is featured in the most recent issue (December 2018) of the MMS Bulletin #148 "
JUST RELEASED: Book Chapter on Information Systems for EPI (with special section on Electronic Immunization Registries)
A textbook from lectures we used to give at the “Ciro de Quadros Vaccinology Course for Latin America” just got published by the Sabin Institute:
Electronic Immunization Registry: Practical Considerations for Planning, Development, Implementation and Evaluation
This document is designed to support EPI managers and their teams in the implementation of EIR-related information systems, using the various experiences compiled at the g
Is there a place for home-based records alongside electronic health records and/or electronic registries?
In some communities, electronic health information systems (a topic discussed here in TechNet periodically and within the
Công tác xây dựng hệ thống đăng ký tiêm chủng điện tử (ĐKTCĐT) ở Việt Nam đòi hỏi nhiều năm làm việc tích cực, kiên nhẫn và kiên trì của mọi người ở tất cả các tuyến của hệ thống y...
- Author: Vietnamese: PATH, Chương trình Tiêm chủng mở rộng Quốc gia
- Category: Data
- Type: Document
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Building an electronic immunization registry (EIR) in Vietnam required years of hard work, patience, and perseverance from people at all levels of health care systems across the country. In the years since its inception, emphasis has been placed on...
- Author: PATH, Vietnam National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI)
- Category: Data
- Type: Document
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Plenary presentation
- Author: M. Carolina Danovaro
- Category: Global initiatives
- Type: Presentation
In this webinar, PATH shares experiences and lessons learned from A to Z of the EIR implementation in Vietnam, from the design, development, deployment, and paperless transition of an EIR. This session will explore and evaluate the NIIS from the...
- Author: Dang Thi Thanh Huyen, Dao Dinh Sang, Nguyen Tuyet Nga, Nguyen Xuan Cam Tu, PATH
- Category: Data
- Type: Webinar
- Country: Viet Nam
Since Covid-19 vaccines have been rolled out at record speed in most countries, immunization programmes have had to quickly adapt or develop monitoring systems and tools. While digital systems have played an important role in this, most countries...
- Author: Sonder Design Collective
- Category: Data
- Type: Webinar
This presentation shares experiences and lessons learned from A to Z of the EIR implementation in Vietnam, from the design, development, deployment, and paperless transition of an EIR.
- Author: PATH
- Category: Data
- Type: Presentation
- Country: Viet Nam
In the effort to reduce the burden of this administrative aspect for immunization staff, many countries have implemented the electronic immunization registry (EIR) system. However, there is not always a parallel relationship between advanced...
- Author: PATH, Vietnam National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI)
- Category: Data
- Type: Case study
- Country: Viet Nam
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Các nhà quản lý chương trình tiêm chủng trên thế giới đã nhận thấy vai trò quan trọng của các đơn vị y tế tư nhân trong cung cấp dịch vụ tiêm chủng, đặc biệt trong việc lấp đầy các...
- Author: Vietnamese: PATH, Chương trình Tiêm chủng mở rộng Quốc gia
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The global immunization community has recognized the critical role the private sector plays in immunization services. This includes filling gaps identified in the public sector (such as hard-to-reach areas and marginalized populations) and thereby...
- Author: PATH, Vietnam National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI)
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Vaccination programmes provide a ‘passport to protection’ by establishing a record of a child’s life. By registering a child’s birth, a legal foundation is being laid for a person’s ‘civil, political, economic, social and cultural...
- Author: Jemma L King
- Category: Global initiatives
- Type: Report
- Country: United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Phân tích bối cảnh tại Việt Nam trong 3 giai đoạn gồm: thiết kế, xây dựng/phát triển và triển khai hệ thống Đăng ký tiêm chủng điện tử, để tìm ra những thuận lợi, khó khăn, và bài học kinh...
- Author: PATH, Chương trình Tiêm chủng mở rộng Quốc gia
- Category: Data
- Type: Case study
- Country: Viet Nam
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH
Vietnam's experience in the three key stages of EIR implementation (design, development and deployment) is explored to extract facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned for global and local audiences.
- Author: PATH, Chương trình Tiêm chủng mở rộng Quốc gia Vietnamese: PATH, Chương trình Tiêm chủng mở rộng Quốc gia
- Category: Data
- Type: Guidance
- Country: Viet Nam
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH
Between 2013 and 2018, BID designed, developed, and introduced an electronic immunization registry in three regions in Tanzania and one province in Zambia. The Initiative’s financial records were used to account for the financial costs of...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
Since 2016, the Government of Tanzania has been implementing TImR, an integrated Electronic Immunization registry-logistics management information system (EIR-LMIS) that includes stock notifications. Working in close partnership with the Government...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The governments of Tanzania and Zambia identified key data-related challenges affecting immunization service delivery including identifying children due for vaccines, time-consuming data entry processes, and inadequate resources. To address these...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
As part of the work the BID Initiative undertook starting in 2013 to improve countries’ collection, quality, and use of immunization data, PATH partnered with countries to identify the critical requirements for an electronic immunization registry...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
This webinar focuses on the practical aspects of managing the cold chain for a vaccination program in an environment that is less than ideal. The presenter highlights the successes, challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities as they have...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Zambia
- Organisations: PATH
This webinar focused on the practical aspects of rolling out a nationwide web-based district health information system (DHIMS2) in Ghana. The presenters highlighted the opportunities and challenges as they have encountered them in Ghana, and...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Ghana
- Organisations: PATH
The Better Immunization Data Learning Network (BLN) recently hosted a webinar entitled “Introduction and Formation of User Advisory Groups (UAG) in Arusha”. This webinar focused on the engagement of groups that are composed of users at different...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
This webinar focused on building an LMIS for vaccine supply in Nigeria with an aim to acquiring a simple but impactful system. The speakers shared the stepwise approach they undertook and how they redesigned their system, adopting automation where...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Nigeria
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Learning Network (BLN) invites you to view the webinar slides from “Piloting of the e-Tracker App in the DHIS2 in The Gambia.” In 2016, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of The Gambia received a small grant from the BLN to...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Gambia
- Organisations: PATH
Vaccine coverage is routinely used as a performance indicator for immunization programs both at local and global levels. For many national immunization programs, there are challenges with accurately estimating vaccination coverage based on available...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Organisations: PATH
To increase coverage and equity of routine immunization services, the government of Tanzania is strengthening the data use culture through the implementation of a package of data quality and use interventions, including an electronic immunization...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Learning Network (BLN) invites you view a webinar presentation on “Building Capacity in Immunization Data Quality and Use through Mentorship: Introducing the BID Regional Mentors.” In its initial phase, between 2013 and 2018, the BID...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
L’histoire de l’initiative BID illustre la valeur de la planification collaborative sous la conduite des pays, celle du leadership et de l’appropriation, de la conception centrée sur l’utilisateur et de l’apprentissage et adaptation...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Initiative Story highlights the value of collaborative, country-driven planning; local leadership and ownership; user-centered design; and continuous learning and adaptation when developing and deploying innovations. It also shows why we are...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
In this webinar, the presenter shared lessons learned from Burkina Faso’s experience in improving the quality of immunization and surveillance data for Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) target diseases. The presentation discussed the...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Burkina Faso
In this webinar, our speaker shared lessons learned from the process of developing and implementing the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Data Management System in Cameroon. The presentation explains the tools that were applied, the actors at...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Country: Cameroon
- Organisations: PATH
This webinar provides background and examples of ways in which eHealth Africa (eHA) employs technology and information systems to transform health care delivery. Our speaker described how eHA has improved immunization systems through the use of...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Training
- Organisations: PATH
Sustainability has been a core principle of the BID Initiative from its earliest days. Planning for sustainability focuses on four key areas: policy, institutional factors, technical issues, and financial considerations.
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Initiative embedded a peer learning network within its structure to ensure that countries collaborated to identify shared problems and test shared solutions. The BID Learning Network (BLN) features three tiers of country participation:...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
Although electronic registries are a critical intervention to improve data availability, quality, and use, they are only one piece of the equation. The change management process ensures that digital health technologies are adopted and integrated...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Initiative’s rollout strategy builds health workers’ awareness, access to information, motivation, and empowerment to act, as well as the skills they need to improve data quality and use across the health system. District Immunization...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
Announcing the Introducing Digital Immunization information systems - Exchange And Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. IDEAL-Vietnam supports Vietnam's transition from paper records to a...
From paper to e-records: Vietnam's electronic immunization registry- how a pilot idea grew into the National Immunization Information System
- Author: PATH
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: Viet Nam
- Organisations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The BID Learning Network (BLN) met in Lusaka, Zambia in November 2017. This slide deck includes the presentations from throughout the BLN meeting.
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Presentation
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Initiative Theory of Change (ToC) document includes a graphic and this narrative explaining the challenges identified by the BID Initiative demonstration countries, the hypotheses behind the BID Initiative approach, and the interventions...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Guidance
- Country: Zambia, United Republic Of Tanzania
- Organisations: PATH
The BID Initiative hosted a series of working group sessions to collaboratively and rigorously define a full range of important immunization information system (IIS) functions, referred to here as business processes. This detailed documentation for...
- Author: BID Initiative
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Organisations: PATH
This factsheet details PATH's decade long support for the development of a National Immunization Information System (NIIS), from pilot to scale up, and the current Introducing Digital Immunization information systems - Exchange And Learning from...
Objective. To develop a methodology to assess electronic immunization registries (EIRs) in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods. A team from the Immunization Unit at the Pan American Health...
- Author: Danovaro-Holliday MC, Contreras MP, Pinto D, Molina-Aguilera IB, Miranda D, García O, et al.
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Not Specified
Introduction The Global Vaccine Action Plan and the Regional Immunization Action Plan of the Americas call for countries to improve immunization data quality. Immunization information systems, particularly electronic immunization registries (EIRs),...
- Author: Ana Gabriela Félix García, Fabio Alberto Escobar Díaz, Karim Jaqueline Pardo Ruiz, M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Marcela Contreras, Martha Velandia-González, Misael Gómez, Renee Aquije, Silas P.Trumbo, Verónica Carrión
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Peru, Mexico
- Organisations: Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP)
To improve the well-being of the population and bridge gaps in health service delivery, it is necessary to guarantee access to various health interventions, including proven strategies such as vaccination and deworming. Meeting program coverage...
- Author: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Category: Programme management
- Type: Guidance
- Country: Not Specified
- Organisations: WHO
Background: During a large measles outbreak in the Netherlands in 2013–2014, infants aged 6–14 months living in municipalities with low (<90%) measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) coverage were individually invited for an early MMR using the national...
- Author: Alies van Lier, Hester E. de Melker, Irmgard Zonnenberg, Laura M. Nic Lochlainn, Marvin Philippi, Susan J.M. Hahné, Tom Woudenberg
- Category: Data
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Netherlands
Background: In the province of Québec, Canada, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine was offered to newborns and school-age children from the 1950s to mid-1970s in an organized tuberculosis prevention program. Objective: We aimed to describe...
- Author: Marie-ClaudeRousseau et al.
- Category: Service delivery
- Type: Journal article
- Country: Canada
April 2012 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Author: AIRA
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States
September 2012 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Author: AIRA
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States
January 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States
April 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States
August 2013 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Author: AIRA
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States
January 2014 SnapShot newsletter from the American Immunization Registry Association
- Author: AIRA
- Category: Data
- Type: Report
- Country: United States