 Registry Funding
Wide
agreement exists that immunization
registries are critical to sustaining high
immunization rates and low disease levels
in the United States. Furthermore, we know
that registries can enhance vaccine safety
by providing missing or additional
information to health care providers and
by facilitating the monitoring of vaccine
adverse events. The information provided
by these computerized information systems
holds multiple benefits for children,
parents, health care providers, insurers,
and schools.
The big
question is: How do we pay for these
important tools?"
All
Kids Count Study
Legislative
Briefing on Immunization Registries
Policy Brief: Sustaining Financial Support
for Immunization Registries Immunization
Registries: Improving Health and Health
Care
The Cost of Immunization Registries: Four Case Studies Back to Key Issues
Legislative
Briefing on Immunization Registries
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and
Mrs. Betty Bumpers, wife of former Senator
Dale Bumpers, joined with health experts
May 1 to urge Congress to find the
political will and financial backing for
development of immunization registries
that can ensure every child is immunized
on time by age 2. View
the Legislative
Briefing News Release,
Immunization
Registry Fact Sheet and Registry Funding
Charts.Back To Top
Policy Brief: Sustaining Financial Support for Immunization
Registries
All Kids Count, March 2000.
An informative brief that reviews the role that registries play in
maintaining high immunization rates. It traces the development of registries, reports their current status, and lists the benefits to parents, providers, plans and purchasers, communities, and
public health officials. It also addresses enhanced vaccine safety, and issues of privacy, confidentiality, and security. The Brief outlines cost savings that could be realized by implementing a
nationwide network of registries, making a strong case for sustained funding. VIEW ONLINE
(PDF)
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, please download to view the policy brief online.Back To Top
Immunization
Registries: Improving Health and Health
Care
A companion piece to the Policy
Brief, this publication highlights reports
from the "field" about how
states, local governments and schools are
using immunization registries. Back To Top
The Cost of Immunization Registries: Four Case Studies
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. 1998. 47 pp.
The study examined the costs--both direct and in-kind efforts--of planning, establishing and implementing immunization registry systems using a cohort of Four All Kids Counts I projects selected
as representative of various types or sizes of systems. The study discusses the difficulties in obtaining accurate costs, unanticipated barriers to implementation of registry systems, as
well as unexpected benefits. The study concludes with lessons learned about the substantial resources required for registry systems. Email [email protected].Back To Top�
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