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MyVaccs wants Brits to store their vaccination records online

Source: TechCrunch

Nov 04, 2009

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[UK] Taking responsibility for one’s own health records, let alone storing then online, is a pretty alien concept to most Brits, considering the National Health Service (NHS) and the centrally stored patient database that’s being rolled out on our behalf. That isn’t stopping Scotland-based MyVaccs, however, which is hoping to persuade parents, students and frequent travelers in the UK to upload their vaccination history and utilise the site’s ability to help them stay up to date with any required jabs.

To begin using the site users enter vaccination data for either themselves and/or their family members. MyVaccs then offers a immunisation path for young children, for example, or the option to pick a travel destination and see a list of recommended vaccines for said country, all displayed against a check list of the patient’s own vaccination records. It’s perhaps this feature alone that’s the real pull for end-users.

MyVaccss isn’t designed to replace the NHS’s own record keeping but rather complement a system to which patients don’t have direct access. Co-found