Why TrackMy Vaccines is the End-to-End Logistics, Tracking, and Compliance Tool We Need to Ensure Timely, Widespread Vaccination.
By: Caroline Carrai
As we plow on through the COVID-19 pandemic, with governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals all grappling with the consequences and seeking and making plans to distribute and receive vaccines, we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. We all hope to reach the end of the tunnel as quickly as possible and with the least number of deaths from this point, possible.
However, realizing both of these goals requires we take a step back to look at the mechanisms that must be in place to achieve them:
- Distribute vaccines as quickly and effectively and equitably as possible.
- Administer the first dose of the vaccine to the highest-need populations and then subsequent groups as fast as we can.
- Ensure individuals who have received their first vaccine dose return and receive their second vaccine dose in order to be inoculated against COVID-19.
While the first two objectives are mostly outside of individuals’ control, number three is not only quite within our control, its also something governments, organizations, and businesses can actively facilitate, if the right tools are employed.
Compounded by logistical obstacles that governments and organizations must navigate, there are two main, and very simple, challenges individuals face in receiving the second vaccine dose: lack of information and inconvenience, and no sense of urgency. Let’s break this down:
Lack of information and inconvenience: “When is my second dose scheduled? Is it at the same vaccination location? Do they have enough supplies?”
No sense of urgency: “If I don’t get my second dose at the time I was told, it’s ok. I got the first dose.” “Oh! I missed my second dose appointment. Well, I’ll get to it. My week is packed this week, but I’ll get to it.”
At first glance a lack of readily available information, paired with a lack of perception about how crucial, important, and vital getting second doses in a timely manner is may seem innocuous. However, the reality is the exact opposite: getting the second dose of the vaccine on time must be the utmost priority for all individuals who receive their first dose, as only after the second dose does immunity to COVID-19 occur and thus the ability protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities from contracting the virus.
How to combat these two very large challenges? It’s all about the right tools. Several enterprising companies have rolled out products to track, remind, and facilitate individuals getting a second vaccine dose, but only one, TrackMy Vaccines, has the combined features of all of these tools and more, making it the most effective end-to-end solution for both entities and individuals in ensuring timely, widespread COVID-19 vaccination:
- Inventory Management – A feature unique to TrackMy Vaccines, and vital in achieving mass vaccination, inventory management ensures entities who administer the vaccine are aware of current doses on hand, empowering them to plan, request more, and inform the public about availability and when individuals can opt to receive the vaccine.
- Scheduling and Follow Up – Individuals who receive their first vaccine dose receive convenient, digital reminders up until the date of their second dose, and until they log the second dose as administered, continue to receive reminders.
- Telehealth –Compounding convenience with reassurance, through TrackMy Vaccines individuals who receive doses can log any side effects or adverse events that occur, ensuring they have a voice in making their experiences known to healthcare professionals and vaccine makers.
- Tracking – For administering entities, after doses are given they are digitally recorded and tracked, enabling governments, organizations, and businesses to see the volume and rate of administration in a particular community or state, or across the United States as TrackMy Vaccines is more widely adopted.
- Billing –Through TrackMy Vaccines entities can bill individuals who have received doses, ensuring not only tracking but auxiliary processes like payment are located in one, central, easily accessed and navigated digital tool.
Only TrackMy Vaccines has all of the necessary features above, and it is the only tool on the market with Inventory Management, a crucial component in enabling administering entities to ensure they vaccinate as many members of their communities as possible, as quickly as possible.
TrackMy Vaccines ensures that administering organizations have the information necessary to request more vaccines, plan administration schedules, and keep governments informed of community vaccination rates, which can inform reopening plans and projections; ensures individuals know when and where to receive their second dose, with the aim of ensuring a higher rate of compliance and thus inoculation; and ensures because of informed, centralized, easily accessible vaccine rate tracking and potentially higher inoculation rates, more quickly, society becomes increasingly closer to achieving pre-pandemic “normalcy”—businesses reopening, friends and families congregating, and all of us being able to start moving forward after this very difficult time.
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