CANImmunize: A digital tool to help patients manage their immunizations CANImmunize: A digital tool to help patients manage their immunizations
A person’s immunization history is essential to health care providers to determine whether they are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases and to public health officials to ensure adequate vaccine uptake.As pharmacists increasingly offer immunization services across Canada, 1 it is vital that they know an individual’s immunization status and that all immunizations they provide be recorded.Pharmacists may have to rely on paper records, patient recall or available information retrieved from other care settings to determine a patient’s current immunization status.New, digital technologies offer an opportunity to address the gaps in records.The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Dr. Kumanan Wilson have developed a free, bilingual digital immunization record for Canadians.CANImmunize can be used by pharmacists to help their patients manage their immunization records.Pharmacists can benefit by using CANImmunize to access expert-approved immunization information in each province and territory.
A person’s immunization history is essential to health care providers to determine whether they are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases and to public health officials to ensure adequate vaccine uptake.As pharmacists increasingly offer immunization services across Canada, 1 it is vital that they know an individual’s immunization status and that all immunizations they provide be recorded.Pharmacists may have to rely on paper records, patient recall or available information retrieved from other care settings to determine a patient’s current immunization status.New, digital technologies offer an opportunity to address the gaps in records.The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Dr. Kumanan Wilson have developed a free, bilingual digital immunization record for Canadians.CANImmunize can be used by pharmacists to help their patients manage their immunization records.Pharmacists can benefit by using CANImmunize to access expert-approved immunization information in each province and territory.