Another step in the direction of the digital reform that is taking place in our country in the last two years, perhaps the most important as it concerns the health of children and young people, was taken with the new platforms announced yesterday regarding the Vaccination Register for Children and Adolescents, the digital health booklet of the child and the digital Individual Student Health Card. These platforms come to fill a huge gap in health data recording and planning for what is most valuable a country has the new generation.
With these new digital tools, parents and doctors now have the opportunity to better organize their children’s health care without waiting, without hassle, with oral communication and without a database.
The presentation of the new digital services to the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was made on Monday afternoon by the Minister of State and Digital Government Kyriakos Pierrakakis and the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris.
As highlighted, the new services are the next step in a broader health digitization strategy aimed at upgrading prevention, optimizing health policy design, and enhancing transparency and personal data protection.
What changes in vaccines
With the ministerial decision that has already been signed, the doctors will be able to start the electronic registration of the children’s data in their digital booklet from tomorrow. The process of registering vaccination data will now be exclusively digital, while parents will be able to access the system through their codes in Taxisnet after May 10.
With the Vaccination Register of Children and Adolescents, Greece acquires for the first time a complete system of organization of basic pediatric vaccinations. Additional capabilities for process optimization will be provided through the system.
The new system
Parents will be notified when their child needs to be vaccinated, as set out in the National Vaccination Program for Children and Adolescents, and parents and pediatricians will have access to the vaccination history, for immediate assessment of the child’s history. Furthermore, through the Vaccination Register of Children and Adolescents, it will be certified for which diseases a child has been vaccinated, when and by which doctor he was vaccinated. In this way, it becomes possible to supervise the implementation of the National Vaccination Program for Children and Adolescents with accurate data.
The process
According to the new procedure, initially the pediatrician will issue the prescription for each vaccine through the electronic prescription system and then the parents will execute the prescription at the pharmacy. Once the vaccination is performed, the pediatrician will register the operation in the Register and any further doses will be automatically scheduled, with the parents receiving corresponding updates via SMS and e-mail. All relevant information will also be available in the MyHealth application.
In the context of the discussion on the vaccination process, Kyriakos Mitsotakis made special reference to the vaccine against cervical cancer. “There is a vaccine that I am particularly interested in monitoring and that is the cervical cancer vaccine, where I realize that vaccination rates are still low. And I think this is partly due to the lack of information of parents and adolescents, because children are also at an age where they understand the importance of this vaccine. There I think we will need a separate campaign. “But I imagine that even through this database we will be able to have much more accurate data on what is really happening,” the prime minister noted.
Digital Health booklet
According to the current situation, the developmental progress of the child from the moment he is born is recorded in paper booklets, with handwritten entries by the pediatricians. Now, with the digitization of the health booklet, the whole process will be recorded electronically by the pediatrician through the electronic prescription system and will be accessible by the parents through their codes in Taxisnet.
Individual Student Health Card
This is another physical document that the parent had to present in person to enroll their child in school. Now the process of publishing it is digitized, facilitating parents and pediatricians.
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