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Electronic Immunization Records
A digital solution that supports the electronic tracking of patient data, such as digital immunization records, to empower health care workers to track child immunization status, improve immunization data quality, support better decision making and better communicate with caregivers.
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Electronic Immunization RegistryTopic
Health care informationStatus
ActiveBackground
In order to reach more children with life-saving immunizations, VillageReach is applying human-centered design (HCD) methodology towards the development of an Electronic Immunization Registry (EIR) in Mozambique and Côte d’Ivoire
HCD can be used to establish solutions that fulfil a population’s needs and improve health outcomes. As an EIR is designed to digitize paper-based immunization records, it is important to understand how these records are updated and maintained from a human-centered perspective.
How it
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Program Impact
In Côte d’Ivoire, since December 2019, VillageReach and its partners (Orange CI, PEV and GAVI) have deployed the M-VACCIN EIR solution in five health districts (Duekoue, Nassian, Touba, Koro and Ouaninou). This implementation phase has so far allowed the registration of more than 15,000 mothers and 10,000 children to whom the system has sent more than 96,000 messages. During the preliminary evaluation conducted in May 2021, more than 90% of the mothers interviewed found the content of the SMS messages important or extremely important. Also 73% of health workers and 100% of CHWs said they perceived a positive impact of the M-VACCIN solution on immunization activities. The evaluation also showed that measles and rubella coverage has an upward trend in districts with M-VACCIN while it is static or declining in non-recipient districts.
In Mozambique, the implementation of the EIR solution will take place in 2022.
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Partners

Government
- Cote d’Ivoire Ministry of Health
- Mozambique Ministry of Health

Donors
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- Orange