Vaccine Provider Guide
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Guide: A Technology Lens
  • Introduction
    • How is this guide different?
    • Who created this guide?
    • Next steps after reading this guide
  • Vaccination Rollout
    • Background
    • Key Areas
      • 1. Confirming eligibility of patients
      • 2. Scheduling appointments and reminders
      • 3. Collecting patient information
      • 4. Administering vaccines on-site
      • 5. Reporting data to your state’s Immunization Information System (IIS)
      • 6. Billing insurance and claims for the uninsured
      • 7. Managing vaccine inventory (ongoing)
      • 8. Communicating with the public (ongoing)
        • Key considerations for messaging
        • Public communication templates & resources
          • Free county website template
          • USDR research on at-risk and vulnerable communities
          • Guidance from public health practioners
          • Helpful government sites
      • Miscellaneous considerations
  • Tech tools
    • Tool Categories
    • Vendor Categories
      • How to Evaluate Vendors
        • Identify your goals and constraints
        • Choose vendors to evaluate
        • Answer key questions
        • Scheduling / queue management tool - Questions
        • Patient registration tool - Questions
    • Switching Vendors
      • Switching Costs
      • Contract Modifications & Switching
    • Summary of Findings
      • Common Challenges
      • Evaluating Media
      • Common User Interface Issues
      • Outages and Downtime
      • Limitations of Technology
    • Vendor Reviews
  • What's next?
  • Acknowledgements
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  2. Key Areas

7. Managing vaccine inventory (ongoing)

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Due to the nature of the distribution channels and the vaccine itself, there are some special considerations that need to be made when managing the COVID vaccine inventory.

  • Reporting vaccine inventory: Providers are vaccine inventory daily through their State IIS (if your state signed up to report to CDC on your behalf) or directly to VaccineFinder on a daily basis. This reporting should be straightforward and should not require any technology integrations.

  • Vaccine ordering: Providers will order doses through VTrckS, a CDC tool. This should also be a straightforward report and should not require any technology integrations.

  • Tight scheduling: Once a vaccine is thawed, there is risk of spoilage, so it’s important to have tight scheduling operations to mitigate risk.

  • Vaccine reserve: Because the vaccine requires two doses 3-4 weeks apart and both doses need to be the same brand, consider reserving half of your inventory for each brand to ensure that supply chain disruptions don’t risk your ability to administer the second dose.

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