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helps residents find out when they are eli- gible to be vaccinated, make an appoint- ment and receive notifications by text or email when it’s time to schedule their second dose. My Turn also tracks vac- cination data and lets providers share information on vaccines received and administered.
The state worked with Accenture, Salesforce and Skedulo (a software-as- a-service, high-capacity scheduling solu- tion provider) on the system, which was being pilot-tested in Los Angeles and San Diego counties and was scheduled to be available statewide in early February.
Residents who are 65 and older can go to MyTurn.ca.gov and answer qualifi- cation questions. If they qualify, the site identifies testing locations and open time slots. Residents choose a time and loca- tion and receive a QR code by text or email that they use to check in for their appointment.
“A big part of the overall solution is inventory management, knowing which one of the vaccines is administered,” said Miles Kelly, executive vice president of marketing at Skedulo. “Each one of those vials is captured with barcodes,
and there’s a tremendous amount of accuracy and backend management on the inventories themselves. That inven- tory, the tracking of that, the security of that information — that’s all part of the solution that we’ve built.”
CDC’s post-vaccine monitoring tool
Officials at the Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention are launching a dif- ferent kind of vaccine tracker with their v-safe after-vaccination health checker. The smartphone-based tool uses text messages and web surveys to check in with people after their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. It also reminds users when it’s time to get their second dose. CDC benefits by learning quickly about any side effects that vaccine recipients experience.
To use v-safe, people must have a smartphone that can receive texts. Those without a smartphone can sub- mit reports of adverse side effects to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Sys- tem, run by CDC and the Food and Drug Administration.
Every person who is about to receive a vaccine has the option to interact with
v-safe, said Dan Stroman, senior direc- tor of public sector at CloudCheckr. The company’s cloud solution is helping CDC manage costs and security for v-safe.
In response to concerns about the tool’s security, CDC maintains that “per- sonal information in v-safe is protected so that it stays confidential and private.”
Oracle is collecting, managing and housing v-safe data on a secure server, according to a CDC document published in November 2020. The data is housed in a government-tenancy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that has been approved through the Federal Risk and Authoriza- tion Management Program. Furthermore, all vaccination data will be stored, pro- cessed and transmitted in compliance with Federal Information Security Mod- ernization Act requirements and National Institute of Standards and Technology standards.
Personally identifiable information “is the most sensitive security aspect of government/citizen interaction,” Stro- man said. “V-safe has been a very good example of proper and secure use of the cloud and secure management of PII in the cloud exclusively.” n
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