The Health Service of Murcia (SMS) will exchange the vaccination history with the Ministry of Health of sick people in the Region thanks to a new project that the department headed by Carolina Darias wants to promote in all the autonomous communities.
The idea is that all the vaccine information systems of each of the territories and those of the Ministry are interoperable. This will allow consultation of the patient’s vaccination history from anywhere in the country and easier access to data, which will also translate into a better quality of health care.
The Region of Murcia has its own vaccination register and although it does report some data to the Ministry, This system has become obsolete, it now requires new, much more complete information after the experience with the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus at the national level, as indicated by the Health. It will thus be possible to store data such as, for example, ID, vaccine date, lot, germ, type of vaccine, etc.
With this health information system, errors detected during the pandemic will be corrected
Thanks to this project, in which 150,000 euros will be investeda new module will be created for the information system of the Murcia Region Vaccine Registry that adapts to the requirements of the RegVacu system of the ministry and the development of tools for the management of incidents that may occur in the exchange of information between the two systems.
The deputy director general of Information Technologies of the Health Service of Murcia, Manuel Escuderohe explains to this editorial staff that “we want to improve what already existed and for this reason the Ministry has set up instruments such as the New Vaccine Register (RegVacu) at a national level and has given funding to the communities to adapt the regional systems to a more powerful national one”.
This project will be funded withs Farmaindustria funds that the Commission for Digital Health has granted to the Region of Murcia advance in digital transformation processes. In total, the Digital Health Commission has a budget of 220 million, of which 7.4 million will go to the Region of Murcia.
Escudero indicates it the SMS project is already in the tender and should end in December 2024, «but we hope to have it sooner because we also have to do the IT development and adaptation. It can take a year and a half for its implementation to be fully implemented.
The flu vaccination will be open to the entire population
The plans of the Ministry of Health open flu vaccination to the entire population starting next Monday, November 21st. After launching the campaign for groups at risk, Juan José Pedreño’s department wants anyone interested in receiving the vaccine to have access to it. This year, as a novelty, children aged between 6 months and 5 years have been included in the flu vaccination, for whom an intranasal vaccine is also available. Salud points out that the influenza virus represents a significant burden of disease in children under 5 years of age.
At a national level, between the 2013 and 2019 seasons, the flu in this age group represented an annual average of 58,640 consultations in Primary Care and 68% of hospitalized patients did not have pathologies at risk. Furthermore, the Community was the first region of the country to administer the new most effective pneumococcal vaccine to prevent serious pathologies deriving from respiratory diseases. Likewise, it was also the first autonomist to jointly administer the flu vaccine with the seasonal booster dose against Covid-19. The goal was to avoid further population displacement.
