High agreement between the new Mongolian electronic immunization register and written immunization records: a health centre based audit

High agreement between the new Mongolian electronic immunization register and written immunization records: a health centre based audit

INTRODUCTION Monitoring of vaccination coverage is vital for the prevention and control of vaccine-preventable diseases. Electronic immunization registers have been increasingly adopted to assist with the monitoring of vaccine coverage; however, there is limited literature about the use of electronic registers in low- and middle-income countries such as Mongolia. We aimed to determine the accur...

Immunization Data Exchange With Electronic Health Records.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of exchange of immunization information between an immunization information system (IIS) and an electronic health record on up-to-date rates, overimmunization, and immunization record completeness for low-income, urban children and adolescents. METHODS The New York City Department of Health maintains a population-based IIS, the Citywide Immunization Registry (CI...

Audit-Based Access Control for Electronic Health Records

Traditional access control mechanisms aim to prevent illegal actions a-priori occurrence, i.e. before granting a request for a document. There are scenarios however where the security decision can not be made on the fly. For these settings we developed a language and a framework for a-posteriori access control. In this paper we show how the framework can be used in a practical scenario. In part...

The immunization data quality audit: verifying the quality and consistency of immunization monitoring systems.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the consistency and quality of immunization monitoring systems in 27 countries during 2002-03 using standardized data quality audits (DQAs) that had been launched within the framework of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. METHODS The consistency of reporting systems was estimated by determining the proportion of third doses of diphtheria-tetanuspertussis ...

A new Approach to active Immunization of Sheep by a combined Sheep pox and Anthrax Vaccine