Electronic Immunization Registries in Tanzania and Zambia: Shaping a Minimum Viable Product for Scaled Solutions
| Autor: | Francis Dien Mwansa, Ngwegwe Bulula, Dawn Seymour, Henry Mwanyika, Mandy Dube, Brian Taliesin, Dykki Settle, Laurie Werner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Process management
media_common.quotation_subject Supply chain Immunization registry registry immunization 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine requirements Minimum viable product patient data media_common Original Research register biology digital lcsh:Public aspects of medicine 030503 health policy & services Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health lcsh:RA1-1270 biology.organism_classification System requirements Intervention (law) Tanzania Work (electrical) Business Public Health electronic immunization registry 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Public Health Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 7 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2296-2565 |
| Popis: | As part of the work the Better Immunization Data (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 (EIR). An EIR became the core intervention to address the data challenges that countries faced but also presented complexities during the development process to ensure that it met the core needs of the users. The work began with collecting common system requirements from 10 sub-Saharan African countries; these requirements represented the countries' vision of an ideal system to track individual child vaccination schedules and elements of supply chain. Through iterative development processes in both Tanzania and Zambia, the common requirements were modified and adapted to better fit the country contexts and users' needs, as well as to be developed with the technology available at the time. This process happened across four different software platforms. This paper outlines the process undertaken and analyzes similarities and differences across the iterations of the EIR in both countries, culminating in the development of a registry in Zambia that includes the most critical aspects required for initially deploying the registry and embodies what could be considered the minimum viable product for an EIR. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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