Advertising: Technical solutions to accelerate vaccination

-The first challenge is to develop an effective vaccine. Medical science has indeed pointed the direction. But now society and healthcare need to focus their efforts on the next major challenge-to quickly ensure that vaccine management is as smooth as possible, said Frederick Wennmark, Technical Manager of ServiceNow, Sweden.
The Scottish technology solution is based on ServiceNow’s adaptive platform and was developed in just six weeks. In the first 12 hours after launch on January 20, 220,000 vaccination bookings have been made through the app.
In addition to NHS Scotland, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and more than 100 other organizations are working with ServiceNow to develop effective vaccination processes and tools.
-No matter where you look at the world, whether you look at the national level or divide smaller areas, it is a very large institution that can successfully distribute, manage and track vaccination. Frederick Wennmark said that in many ways, this may be the biggest logistical challenge facing modern healthcare, at least in terms of how many workflows and logistical chains must be synchronized and connected to make it work.

Great opportunity for improvement
ServiceNow has developed an off-the-shelf tool called vaccine management management, which organizations can use to build customized digital tools for managing mass vaccination. Among other things, the tool can help citizens obtain correct and up-to-date information about vaccinations, make appointments and receive notifications from participants who administer the vaccine itself. For example, the solution synchronizes the booking itself with real-time information from the inventory system, so that vaccination can be rapidly increased and decreased based on the number of vaccines available.
-Of course, it is great to see that our platform can participate and contribute to solving this challenge, but at the same time, when you see that there are still great opportunities for improvement, you will feel a little frustrated, Frederick Wennmark said.
ServiceNow has also developed a number of tools that make it easier for companies and organizations to respond to current situations, including a safe workplace suite, focusing on employee safety and preparedness in the workplace, and emergency response applications that provide process support in crisis situations. In the near future, ServiceNow will introduce more solutions to help companies manage vaccination.

Simplify the process
During the outbreak of the 2020 spring pandemic, the Stockholm region launched a solution based on the ServiceNow platform, which runs in its own data center to support mobile teams conducting Covid testing for special housing in the region and simplify their Work. The newly launched vaccine management solution can also be deployed locally or run from ServiceNow’s data center in the European Union.
By using technology platforms such as ServiceNow, more organizations can take advantage of the same opportunity to quickly develop customized applications to facilitate and streamline processes. You don’t need to visit a large team of experienced developers, the underlying platform handles most of the heavy work and basic technology, so the organization can focus on ensuring that the application does what it should do as much as possible.
-Our solution is an important step in democratizing application development and ensuring that as many organizations as possible can participate in the development and build smart solutions in which citizens can participate. Frederick Wennmark said that we have allowed thousands of talented engineers to build a platform so that our customers can focus on their specific business logic and quickly achieve their goals through new applications.

Fact: Leading software platform
ServiceNow is the world’s leading software platform for automating and simplifying workflows and processes: flexible and multifunctional, it can be deployed as a cloud service or directly deployed in your own environment.