What do Covid-19 vaccines and Cloud Computing have in common?
Check the progress of the vaccination process in real time, manage and track all data in one place.
Returning to so-called normality, resuming one’s activities without fearing the invisible and silent aggression of Covid-19, of that monster that in a short time has disrupted the daily life of each of us and has changed (perhaps forever) the face of the world as we know it.
Getting vaccinated is the only way to fight this “invisible enemy”.
It is no secret that some European and non-European countries are in difficulty both for the procurement of doses authorized by the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, and for distribution. For each country, in fact, setting in motion the bureaucratic machine and organizing vaccinations in a practical and above all efficient way is not child’s play because we are dealing not only with the actual administration of vaccine doses but also with the management of the contagion. In short, a real challenge.
And this challenge has been taken up by the world of hi-tech, which includes Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
Northwell Health, Lake County, University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Gavi Vaccine Alliance are the leading healthcare providers that are already using technology from Salesforce, a U.S. cloud computing company based in San Francisco, to optimize and simplify the management of vaccination programs.
These are practical solutions that insiders have been experimenting with for months and the latest is called “Vaccine Cloud” which is based on the Customer 360 platform, in which mobility applications, bots and tools based on artificial intelligence, analysis tools and more converge and are made accessible in “as a service” mode thanks to the versatility of cloud computing.
But how can this kind of technological solutions concretely help public administrations? One way to use the “Vaccine Cloud” can be to check the progress of the vaccination process in real time and refine it in a key “data driven” based on health needs and risk factors encountered. In addition, all vaccine data can be managed and tracked in one place, giving you total visibility into the situation.
Clearly, there are incredible practical benefits for healthcare companies that find themselves administering hundreds of doses a day such as keeping the inventory of vaccine doses but also syringes and personal protective equipment in order, staff training, external communications to notify the patient of the timing of the first injection or the reminder for the booster.
Never before has order, precision and tracking been needed, and Cloud Computing is certainly the solution if we consider that “standard spreadsheets, databases and first-generation digital tools cannot be up to the task of equitably distributing doses around the world”. These words were spoken by Ashwini Zenooz, Chief Medical Officer of Salesforce, during a live event on CNN.
Finally, to cite another example, Moderna has started a collaboration with IBM for smarter vaccine management that takes into account artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud.
The goal of these projects is therefore to identify ways in which technology can be used to help accelerate the sharing of secure information between institutions, healthcare companies, pharmaceutical companies and citizens.
