Government's covid vaccine IT systems not ready

Government's covid vaccine IT systems not ready
Henry Burrell
New Zealand’s covid-19 vaccination programme is underway, but the IT systems designed to underpin it are not ready yet.The government has decided on a four-prong system to manage the programme. It comprises an immunisation register, booking system, recall system, and inventory management that tracks where the vaccine doses are. The four systems will be centralised and used to collate the large amount of data associated with a national plan of this scale.The immunisation register is complete, but the booking system is still in develop...

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