BACKGROUND:
The Department of Health in the State of Ohio asked Atlantic MangementCener, Inc.. (AMCI) to build a prototype to track the administration of mass inoculations. This system fulfilled various IT and health related requirements for the State of Department of Health and Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

OBJECTIVE:
Demonstrate the Immunization process, equipment components and their usage, method for time estimation, station description and timed analysis breakdown and summary with associated cost analysis of an automated system vs. manual entry.

METHOD:
The estimated data times collected through manual and automated collection which were then analyzed, averaged out and compared against the observations by health care workers

RESULT:
The prototype system was used in several pilots (smallpox clinics) for immunizations of the first health care responders for the State of Ohio and successfully aided in the immunization of over 400 people.

CONCLUSION:
A high level summary of benefits concluded that this automated immunization system provides the following:
Easily set up by health care workers.
Easily expandable when clinic size increased during immunization situations.
Decreases the amount of time to enter patients into the registry.
Increases the accuracy of the registry data.
The required (CDC Forms) paperwork was noticeably more accurate and less time consuming to produce.
A decrease in time and increase of accuracy in data entry of the vaccination station.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Key factors in the development of a successful automated immunization system includes:
Buy-in from Health Care professionals
Understanding the Immunization and DOH requirements
IT infrastructure requirements
Proper Immunization process setup