The HISP Centre at the University of Oslo invites you to join the DHIS2 LMIS team and experts from the HISP network for the next webinar in our DHIS2 for Immunization series--supported by...
The Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have published new guidance for countries planning the selection, acquisition and deployment of new logistics management information system (LMIS)...
Join us for a webinar: Five proven strategies to improve immunization data use (Findings from the Immunization Data: Evidence for Action Review)
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:00...
Join us for a webinar: Five proven strategies to improve immunization data use (Findings from the Immunization Data: Evidence for Action Review)
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:00...
Hereby to share a new resource on IIS produced by the Vaccine-preventable diseases at ECDC in collaboration with partners globally:
Designing and implementing an immunisation information system. A...
The Gavi Secretariat has released a global standards document for immunisation supply chain (iSC) information systems.
A hallmark of effective supply chains is end-to-end (E2E) visibility of...
Dear colleagues,
The results of external evaluations assessing MyChild Solution based on Smart Paper Technology in Afghanistan are now available. These evaluations assessed the data quality,...
Dear TechNet-21 Colleagues,
The OpenLMIS Community is hosting a French-language webinar this Thursday, May 24 at 6 AM PST / 13h00 UTC on the latest features in the OpenLMIS 3.3 release. Details...
Greetings TechNet Colleagues,
Please save the date on Thursday, May 10 at 13h00 UTC (6:00 AM PST) when the OpenLMIS Community will host a webinar presenting the latest features in the OpenLMIS...
Greetings iSC Colleagues,
The OpenLMIS Community is proud to announce the release of OpenLMIS version 3.3, the latest release in the version 3 series specifically supporting immunization supply...
Greetings,
A new blog is available on openlmis.org, presenting an exciting collaboration between OpenLMIS and Nexleaf Analytics to incorporate remote temperature monitoring (RTM) data into the...
Dear TechNet-21 Members,
Please join OpenLMIS on November 30th at 8 AM PST/ 5 PM CET/ 7 PM EAT for a webinar presenting details on the current roadmap and latest developments in the OpenLMIS v3...
The OpenLMIS community has the pleasure to announce the milestone release of OpenLMIS version 3.2. In line with the version 3 series, 3.2 includes new features in stock management,...
Dear TechNet Colleagues,
I am pleased to share a workshop report on the Francophone OpenLMIS User-Centered Design Workshop facilitated by VillageReach and hosted at the PATH Senegal Headquarters in...
This is the fourth topic in my six-part Vaccine Supply Chain Futures series (Please see the attached file for the full text) focused on the introduction of a system of remote temperature monitoring...
Improving supply chain data visibility and data use are showing real impact in Tanzania's integrated logistics system. A study has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Global Health:...
by Dr Blanche ANYA and Dr David BROWN
During 21-24 February 2017, representatives from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda gathered in Kampala, Uganda to rethink and improve...
Over the last decade, the technology environment in developing countries has changed significantly, offering new opportunities to strengthen and automate information systems throughout the health...
OpenLMIS is proud to announce the launch of OpenLMIS version 3, an open source logistics management information system (LMIS): http://openlmis.org/
The OpenLMIS community, representing a global...
As supply chain professionals working in the global health sector, we have heard countless requests and statements over the years to integrate data from HMIS and LMIS tools. This is partly to...
Hello,
I was recently introduced to this site. I am very interested in supply chain management and logistics of health commodities and was wondering if anyone knew of an online course (preferably...
On any day, the Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA) in Ethiopia manages the thousands of transactions (orders, receipts, issues, and transfers) which are the lifeblood of the public sector...
Over the last two decades, increased investments in health have yieldedsignificant gains in health outcomesfor tens of millions of people around the world. At the same time, economic growth has...
Greetings TechNet Community,
I hope this message finds each of you well and successful in your work. I am the new OpenLMIS Community Manager working with the OpenLMIS Initiativeand Community to...
The case for a ‘Common Logistics Operating Platform’ to serve District Management of Supply systems and Service delivery support.
Question: Could an ‘Integrated Public Health Supply Chain...
“You can’t vaccinate a child with a mobile phone.”Andrea Coleman, co-founder, Riders for Health
Technology is all the rage in global health programs, from immunization and child survival to...
A well-designed, well-operated supply chain that delivers health supplies to patients and clients who need them is critical to the success of any health system. With an electronic logistics...
Recently, I was sitting with the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Manager, his senior staff, and technical assistance (TA) partners in an African country, discussing support for better...
In the last decade, vaccine information management has slowly evolved from paper at every level in the health system, to Excel-based reports at higher levels (districts or above) that are emailed, to...
“Apps” (computer software applications) are being developed and used as tools to help manage the vaccines and medicines supply chain more and more. But are they directed at challenges that have...
TechNet 2015 Day 3 tackled Managing the System: Human Resources for Supply Chain Management and Data for Management. These two themes are closely linked.People are the sources of data, and people...
A week before (on 28-05-2015) when a couple came with an immunization card developed in a tertiary care centre which created confusion as to what all vaccines thier child should receive made Sampaje...
Dear colleagues:
The Alliance Data for Management (D4M) working group is developing a guidance package on immunisation supply chain dashboards that includes a menu of primary supply chain...
Background: Complete and timely childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions in improving child survival in developing countries. Computerized HMIS has been recently...
Many country vaccine distribution systems in low to middle income countries feature scheduled deliveries from central to intermediate level stores. But they depend on collection or a mix of...
Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), with Technical Support of VillageReach, Launches Système Informatisé d’Information de la Gestion Logistique (SIIGL) Open Source Information System increases...
This posting is one of four, each discussing a different indicator. This post discusses vaccine utilisation efficiency. Another efficiency indicator measures the level of vaccine administered...
This posting is one of four, each discussing a different indicator. This post discusses the availability of vaccine. Over 40% of countries reporting to the JRF in 2013 reported shortages of one or...
As some of view may know, Unicef WCARO is undertaking an inventory of LMIS uses for EPI. All levels of the supply chain will be assessed and the inventory will cover all kind of tools: systems,...
This is the first of a series of TechNet postings to assess alternative definitions of field-level indicator(s) matching each of the proposed monitoring objectives. For now and based on this posting,...
Cross-posted from the IAPHL forum with many thanks! Dear IAPHL members, Firstly, thanks to Victoria, Kamran, Gashaw, Wendy, and Prashant for providing their insights.They show the variety of value...
[b]Pakistan Vaccine Logistics Management Information System (vLMIS) Release 2 went Live this week:[/b]
vLMIS release 2 is a single web based integrated platform for reporting Routine Immunization,...
Dimagi is pleased to announce that it will support five organizations from various sectors in India and Nepal to explore the use of mobile technology for logistics and supply chain management in...
by Sean Blaschke and Lilian Nabunnya, UNICEF
On April 26, 2013, health workers at 3,240 health facilities in Uganda were sent the following short-message service (SMS) text message:
Does your...
VaxTrak in Vietnam VaxTrak helps health workers keep track of vaccine stock. In 2011, the Vietnamese National Expanded Programme on Immunization introduced VaxTrak in the provinces of Phu Tho, Quang...
[i]This is a report based on a brief survey on the use of computerized LMIS in public health supply chains conducted on the [url=http://iaphl.org/]International Association of Public Health...
The Quarter 4, 2012 issue of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Newsletter focuses on a number of promising mobile supply chain interventions, which are quickly becoming a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[i]by Mojtaba Haghgou, consultant, and Ramzi Ouichi, WHO [/i]
A web-based version of the Vaccination Supply Stock Management (VSSM) tool has been successfully deployed in Iran. Now, project...
[i]by Jan Grevendonk and Elaine Griffith, PATH and Anup Akkihal, Logistimo[/i]
One of the perennial struggles in any supply chain is to deliver the right amount of product to the right place at...
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...
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...
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...
[b]VSSM INTRODUCTION AT NATIONAL VACCINE STORE ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN[/b]
[b](By Ghulam Taqi)[/b]
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[b][i]Country Background:[/i][/b]
Pakistan is the largest country in WHO Eastern...
Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this with our readers. The TechNet21 website will soon have a software depot from which you will be able to download VSSM and other latest software. ...
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...
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...
POST 01250E: COLD CHAIN EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT (CCM) TOOL RELEASED 4 APRIL 2008 ******************************************* Dear Technet21 colleagues, PATH, in partnership with WHO and UNICEF, is...