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Albania immunization information system photobook

Starting in 2009, the Albanian Institute of Public Health collaborated with project Optimize to implement an online immunization information system (IIS) that can schedule and record all child immunizations in the country, as well as manage vaccine stock and storage. This photo set illustrates how the new system has benefitted health workers in Albania. The “Before” pictures describe how health workers used the previous paper-based registry, while the “After” pictures describe how they are now using IIS.

Viet Nam’s immunization registries

In Viet Nam, project Optimize worked with government and software partners to help introduce a digital immunization registry. This registry allowed the health system to better track children due for vaccination and shortened the time required for recording and reporting immunizations compared to the existing paper-based registry.

Immunization information system in Albania

The Albanian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with project Optimize, developed a registry-based immunization information system. This factsheet illustrates how the data the new system produces is used to improve the management of the vaccination program, how it is changing the way people collaborate, how it ensures timely and equal access to immunization for all children, and how it reduces the administrative burden on staff.

Optimize Viet Nam Summary Report

Between 2010 and 2012, project Optimize collaborated with Viet Nam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to demonstrate innovations in the supply chain that can help to meet the demands expected as Viet Nam’s immunization program continues to grow. This report describes the activities undertaken in Viet Nam as part of the collaboration.

Keeping track of Viet Nam's vaccines

This evidence brief describes how project Optimize worked in Viet Nam with national, regional, and local partners to help introduce VaxTrak, a software program that allows users at various levels of the health system to track vaccine stock and report monthly immunization activity.

Albania: Demonstrating the benefits of an online immunization registry

This document describes how project Optimize is collaborating with the Albanian Institute of Public Health to transform the way immunization data and vaccine stock are managed. The two-year collaboration aims to evaluate the benefits of a supply chain that uses an online immunization registry, remotely connected temperature monitoring devices, and a distribution system organized for optimum efficiency.

Assessment of a remote alarm system for vaccine storage in Albania

Between March and December 2010 this project Optimize study assessed the marginal managerial advantages of using a global system for mobile communications/short message service messaging to transmit the temperature data in 24 health centers of the district of Shkodra, Albania.

An integrated approach to health information systems in Guatemala

This project Optimize document describes an effort by the World Health Organization, PATH, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemala Ministry of Public Health and Social Services to address challenges related to vaccine introduction. The goal is to develop an information system that will enable the digital recording and transmission of immunization data.

Mobile phones bring online immunization registries to low-resource countries

Today, most health workers at the service‐delivery level in developing countries use paper‐based systems to track the individuals who have been vaccinated and the vaccines and other resources used during the process. Project Optimize is working with the Albanian Institute of Public Health to develop and implement an immunization information system that will provide the type of high-quality, granular data that policymakers need.

Point of service data to drive vaccine supply chains

This fact sheet outlines the different approaches that project Optimize is testing to demonstrate that a consumption‐based system that uses service-delivery-level data can have a beneficial impact on inventory management, stock levels, and vaccine wastage.

Temperature recording systems in Iran and Sudan

An overview of digital SMS temperature recording systems in two national stores.

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