Imunis vaccination platform ready to support the shift from sickness to prevention

• Disjointed Records: Patient data is often scattered across multiple, non-integrated systems, creating a fragmented record and a lack of a single, holistic view of a patient’s health history. This fragmented system is further strained when patients are referred across NHS services, move between public and private healthcare providers, or relocate geographically. Missing or inaccurate information leads to unnecessary over-vaccination, missed vaccination, and missed reminders, as the data needed for clinical decision-making and reminder automations appears incomplete.
  
• The Data Standardisation Gap: While clinical language, such as SNOMED-CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms), and FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) for data exchange are crucial tools that enable health data to flow through the system with the patient, a significant portion of records (historical and new) still do not conform to a machine-readable standard. This lack of standardised data prevents joined up patient records and automated interpretation of a patient’s history.
  
• Vaccination Guidelines Change Frequently: New vaccines, changing global health risks, budgets and research all influence vaccination recommendations, which can often differ by location. Guidelines in the UK are under constant review, which can lead to frequent updates to eligibility criteria. Responding to this complex landscape with poorly integrated systems can create an error-prone burden for clinical teams, and in some cases, patients can fall through the cracks.

• Data Standardisation: Transformation of large volumes of non-standard data into the required format with little to no clinician downtime, allowing for easy transfer of information between public and private healthcare providers. The Imunis Data Model combines interoperable standards with patient-interpretable terminology, using plain English terminology to help patients read and understand their medical records without having to interpret medical jargon or abbreviations.
  
• Records Digitisation Service: An expert service to capture and standardise historical records held by the patient that may not be accessible in digital format. An Imunis’ study demonstrated an unacceptable error rate when patients attempt to record their vaccine history, and many patients face significant barriers in adding information to their GP health record.
  
• Automated Clinical Intelligence: Auto-calculation of a patient’s vaccination status against the latest official guidelines, with associated prompts for missing or overdue vaccinations.
  
• Travel Vaccine Planner: An frequently-updated itinerary-driven vaccine health guide based on official sources (WHO/international consulates and global outbreak data).

The platform is live in the Hong Kong private sector and as part of HPV school vaccination programmes, with an initial pilot of over 1000 patients. This demonstrated a reduction in medical recording errors to almost zero, significant increase in records completeness, and an increase in vaccination rates of up to 19%, with minimal healthcare professional intervention. By automating administrative and interpretation work, Imunis supports informed, preventative decision-making, which in an era of misinformation, has never been more vital.