Tasmania Digitizes COVID-19 Consumer Vaccination Process with Oracle Cloud
A state-wide program to streamline access to vaccination
Public health officials in the Australian state of Tasmania have an ambitious goal—vaccinating all of the island’s 541,000 residents against COVID-19. This means making vaccines as accessible as possible while securely monitoring vaccination progress to help manage inventory and demand.
“In this complex and fast-moving fight against COVID-19, there is a critical role for data to play, now and in the longer term.”
Oracle Cloud simplifies appointments and health records
Technology plays a critical role: the state’s Health Management System allows consumers to book their vaccination online or on the phone, use digital check-in at their appointment, and receive a reminder to schedule a second dose vaccination, if required. Healthcare workers also use the system to record the type of vaccination administered and create or update a unique electronic health record for every person vaccinated.
Oracle Health Management System Cloud Service ensures local governments and medical facilities can securely access data about the vaccination program and report a record of each successful jab to the Australian Immunisation Register. The Oracle Health Management System (HMS) was first developed to manage COVID-19 testing, therapeutic, and vaccination programs in the United States.
African countries use the Oracle Cloud to manage their vaccination programs from yellow fever to COVID-19
The COVID-19 virus is new while the yellow fever virus is not, but they have one terrible thing in common—they both kill. Half the people who are infected with yellow fever and develop severe symptoms die in less than two weeks. An effective vaccine exists, but vaccinating millions of people, creating millions of health records, and making sure no one misses out is a massive challenge.
That’s where Oracle can help. Starting in Ghana, we’re working with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to provide African nations with a modern, cloud-based, electronic health records system to help them manage their large-scale vaccination programs, contain major diseases, and save lives.
“This is an immensely exciting and potentially ground-breaking initiative for recording information on all disease vaccinations and treatments in African nations.”
–Tony Blair, Executive Chairman of TBI and the former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Together, we’re building the future of healthcare
The system fully supports the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, country by country, by tracking immunization, testing, and creating QR codes for “immunity passes.” Proof of immunization will boost travel and tourism, helping to reopen economies. Our system adapts to each country’s needs and scales as public health programs grow and new programs are added. The Tony Blair Institute is currently in discussions with more than 30 countries about adopting the Oracle HMS to support various public health initiatives.
3 countries. 1 system. Many critical uses.
Oracle partners with Ghana
Yellow fever virus is estimated to cause 200,000 cases of disease and 30,000 deaths each year, with 90% occurring in Africa. Ghana is currently using the Oracle HMS to manage yellow fever vaccines and will follow with COVID-19 vaccines when they’re available. This year’s program is targeting 5.8 million people across the nation. The first phase focuses on central Ghana, where over 70,000 people were vaccinated and registered in the Oracle HMS in the first week.
Oracle partners with Rwanda
Rwanda used Oracle’s system to support its Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine administration and its first round of COVID-19 vaccines. President Paul Kagame called the partnership “an innovative digital vaccine e-registry that signals the continent’s readiness to safely reopen our economies to trade and tourism.”
Oracle’s partnership with Tasmania
Tasmanian Government is using the Oracle Health Management System Cloud Service for Government to manage its state-wide COVID-19 vaccination program. Tasmania Health is managing over 45,000 consumers using the Oracle system, which will be critical in supporting the national program goal of reaching all 541,000 residents and reporting records of vaccination to the Australian Immunisation Register.
The Oracle Health Management System is built on:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): delivers high-performance computing power to securely run the most critical workloads.
Oracle Application Express (APEX): a low code development platform that enables people to build scalable, secure applications.
Oracle Exadata Cloud Service: runs Oracle Database workloads in the cloud, improving security, performance, and uptime.