Arjun M C, Singh Arvind Kumar, Parida Swayam Pragyan
Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Sijua, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2023 Jul-Aug;48(4):514-517. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_979_22. Epub 2023 Jul 14.
CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) is a web-based platform owned and operated by the Government of India for facilitating COVID-19 vaccination of the citizens. This project is considered a tremendous success, apparent from the sheer number of hassle-free and successful COVID-19 vaccinations. We believe that the CoWIN system is an ideal platform for capturing all the vaccine-related data in the Universal Immunization program (UIP) as well as providing an all-inclusive vaccine certificate in digital format. Advantages and challenges of upscaling the CoWIN system to include UIP and a vision statement of how this can be achieved are discussed in this article. We also enlist the state-level solutions currently in use for digital immunization records, which can serve as case studies for upscaling the CoWIN system.
CoWIN(新冠疫苗接种信息网络)是印度政府拥有并运营的一个基于网络的平台,用于便利公民进行新冠疫苗接种。从大量顺利且成功的新冠疫苗接种情况来看,该项目被认为取得了巨大成功。我们认为,CoWIN系统是一个理想的平台,可用于收集通用免疫规划(UIP)中所有与疫苗相关的数据,并以数字格式提供全面的疫苗接种证书。本文讨论了将CoWIN系统扩展至涵盖UIP的优势与挑战,以及如何实现这一目标的愿景声明。我们还列举了目前用于数字免疫记录的州级解决方案,这些方案可作为扩展CoWIN系统的案例研究。