Virtual Health Connect - System Demo

Virtual Health Connect (VHC) helps to keep track of childrens immunization schedules automatically and sends SMS reminders to parents a week before and on the day a scheduled vaccination is due. Thus, parents will be reminded to bring their children to clinics for vaccination on time, resulting in a decrease in the number of defaulters. In line with United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), VHC targets to reduce under-five child mortality rate by increasing global immunization coverage. Hospitals or clinics can get rid of the inefficient immunization card/book system as all vaccination records are stored electronically in our Web servers. Best of all, vaccination records can be retrieved by healthcare providers and individuals worldwide in times of need (registering for school or traveling into endemic-prone countries) via our Web site or SMS. The novelty of VHC lies in its ability to automate the sending vaccination date reminders to parents as well as easy retrieval of vaccination records, news on free vaccination campaigns and immunization educational contents via SMS. Multi-lingual SMS texts will also be implemented to reach out to communities from different racial background.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Virtual Health Connect
• Malaysia
• Team Cosmic
• Imagine Cup 2009
• Design for Development