Stream: implementers
Topic: Immunization Registry
Grey Faulkenberry (Feb 06 2020 at 14:27):
I'm looking into trying to collect clinical data in the Dominican Republic using FHIR APIs, and one of the big pieces we'd like to collect are vaccines to start creating an immunization registry. Has anyone done anything like this?
Lloyd McKenzie (Feb 06 2020 at 18:25):
One of the Canadian jurisdictions has had a FHIR immunization system in production for a couple of years
Ken Sinn (Feb 06 2020 at 18:48):
The specifications for the immunization system Lloyd mentions can be found below:
https://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/en/standards/view/digital-health-immunization-repository-specification-fhir-release-4
https://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/en/standards/view/digital-health-immunization-repository-consumer-access-specification-fhir
One is for clinical access/submission, the other is for patient access/submission. The system is leveraging the immunization terminology from the Canadian Vaccine Catalogue here: https://cvc.canimmunize.ca/en/home
Igor Sirkovich (Feb 08 2020 at 05:16):
@Grey Faulkenberry, I just wanted to add two notes in regards to Ontario Immunization Repository.
- It was built as a facade to the existing provincial public health application and as such, has some limitations inherited from the underlying application.
- The submission part is not truly restful: all the submissions get stored in a staging database where pubic health employees use another application to review these submissions, approve and apply specific updates and additions to data in the Immunization Repository.
Alejandro Lopez Osornio (Feb 09 2020 at 22:12):
In Argentina this exact use case was implemented using this guide (Registro de Inmunizaciones):
https://simplifier.net/guide/registrodevacunas/home
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