Will Digitalisation of Routine Immunisation Prove  to be a Boon or Bane?

Ananya  Ray Laskar; Preethi Leti; Jyoti  Khandekar

Ananya Ray Laskar Associate Professor, Department Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Preethi Leti Post Graduate Student, Department Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Jyoti Khandekar Director Professor & Head, Department Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.

Keywords: Digitalisation, U-WIN, Co-WIN, Innovations, SWOT Analysis

Abstract

Digitalisation of health services can directly enhance the quality of care, improve patient outcomes, reduce human error, increase the efficiency of the health workforce and lead to more equitable coverage. U-WIN (Universal WIN at immunisation) is an ambitious flagship initiative to digitalise vaccination events and records of routine immunisation programmes along the same lines as Co-WIN. Digitising immunisation records can provide numerous advantages over traditional systems in tracking immunisation coverage and has the
potential to improve immunisation uptake. However, there are several implementation challenges. This paper attempts to provide insights into the operationalisation of U-WIN in India with a compilation of best practices in the use of digital technologies across the world and a SWOT analysis of U-WIN.

How to cite this article:
Laskar A R, Leti P, Khandekar J. Will Digitalisation
of Routine Immunisation Prove to be a Boon
or Bane? Int J Preven Curat Comm Med.
2024;10(1&2):22-25.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2454325X.202403

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