Following was my first e-mail describing the framework of a Mobile App { VacReg } , for administering the Covid
vaccine
Rationing
of Covid Vaccine ? ……………………………………[ 06 July 2020 ]
That was followed up by
:
Voting
and Vaccination : Compare and Contrast ………[ 19 Oct 2020 ]
COVIN
App : A Curtain Raiser …………………………………….[ 04 Dec 2020 ]
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Today ( 07 Dec ) Times of India carries following news
report :
Self-registration
for comorbid people to get Covid vaccines ?.................[ 07 Dec 2020 ]
Extract :
Ø India, which faces the daunting task of identifying high-risk
people with co-morbidities- whom it will have to inoculate after healthcare and
frontline worker get vaccines, may consider allowing
individuals to self-declare comorbidities to get
the shot in the arm
Ø Part of
India’s preparations to deliver vaccines is to tag them : Vaccines
will be tagged and tracked electronically from the place of origin ( ports / pharma firms ) up to the person
receiving the dose
Ø This will
be enabled by the CO-WIN app
Ø Every person receiving a vaccine will
get an SMS with details of the date, venue and time of
vaccination and even the name of vaccinator
Ø After
vaccination, the app will also generate certificates
Ø Beneficiary
data for the first two rounds of inoculation will be entered onto CO-WIN by
State Authorities, while data of those from the third round, which will
prioritise comorbid people, may see individuals self-registering
Ø “ As
part of the upgrade, an option allowing individuals to self-register, declaring
their comorbidities has been included in CO-WIN. Local officials will
authenticate such applications before considering the person for vaccination. However
this option remains disabled at the moment as governments will enter data of
healthcare workers , “ Arundhati Chandrashekar, one of the mission directors of
the National Health Mission ( NHM ) , which
will spearhead the vaccination drive, told TOI
Ø The government
has still kept the option of collecting data of persons with comorbidities and
uploading them on CO-WIN as bulk
entries, but this would require massive data from across the states,
which may not be viable within dedicated timelines
Ø “ In
case such data is unavailable and / or any surveys planned are not complete,
the government is likely to allow self-registration. But
things are still very fluid, and a committee at the central level is
deliberating various options, “ Arundhati said, adding that the Centre will
decide the modalities
Ø While
no final decision has been made on how to identify people with
comorbidities yet, experts part of ICMR and other government of India
committees TOI spoke with, said various options , including self-declaration by
people, using the NCD ( non-communicable diseases ) national database,
door-to-door survey findings done in states like Karnataka and Mumbai region
may be considered by the government
Ø According
to estimates, 15 % to 20 % of the population may have comorbidities. The NCD
data is not complete and has only passive enrollments which started Oct 2019
and only a third of all data has been digitized so far. We’ll soon be starting an active
survey and the target to cover the entire population is 2022. Apart from
this, we are likely to include fields in the family surveys to be
conducted by the health department to include options to enter comorbidities , “Arundhati
added
Ø Aside
from NCD data, some states like Karnataka are looking at including additional
fields for comorbidities as part of National Family Survey. “ Everything will
depend on the GOI guidelines , “ Arundhati said [ karnataka.sulm@gmail.com / nhm@karnataka.gov.in ]
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Fractal Putting vaccine Data to Work / Eco Times – 07 Dec
Extract :
Ø Artificial
Intelligence company Fractal
Analytics is building data frameworks to
help authorities track administrations of Covid-19
vaccines and address questions over their efficacy and side effects
Ø The
state governments that the company is engaged with are cognizant that “rather
than a high-handed approach “, a data-driven process that
addresses citizen concerns may be more effective for vaccine coverage, Fractal
group chief executive Srikanth
Velamakanni said
Ø It
looks to continue its assistance to these administrations and also assist the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for vaccine-related data
modelling
Ø For
Covid-19 identification and treatment, the start up deployed models based on behavioral data science and AI, to help
administrators and doctors make key decisions
Ø It
has designed a cloud-based data infrastructure to document
and analyse the vaccination
process using publicly available structured and unstructured data
Ø According
to Velamakanni, the company is aiming to help states address public concerns in
the vaccination process with data-driven answers….in
light of all those expectations, how you make sure that you are transparently communicating and getting citizens to do
what is right for themselves ( is important ), said Velamakanni [somya.agarwal@fractal.ai/ Srikanth@fractal.ai ]
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Smt Arundhatiji
[ karnataka.sulm@gmail.com
/ nhm@karnataka.gov.in ],
Congratulations
for development of CO-WIN
app
It
makes me happy that it incorporates most of the feature of Mobile App “ VacReg “described in :
Voting
and Vaccination : Compare and Contrast ………[ 19 Oct 2020 ]
I appreciate that compilation / analysis
of Covid infection related data of 1.3 BILLION of our citizen, is a very
complex and herculean task . But collecting
such data meticulously has far reaching implications as I wrote to
our PM Shri Modiji , in my following
Linkedin post ( sent as email ) yesterday :
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Dear Shri Modiji,
While thanking you for incorporating most of my suggestions
in COVIN app, I urge you to :
> instruct those VACCINATING STAFF, managing the VDC [
Vaccine Delivery Centre ] not to give the shot until and
unless , the citizen
concerned helps the staff to first fill-in the DATA listed at,
Rationing
of Covid Vaccine ? ……………[ 06 July 2020 ]
Without such elaborate DATA about each and every person being
administered the
Covid Vaccine, AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) will NOT be able to PREDICT :
# Where ( location ) will the infections go up further / go
down
# Which STRATA of society is more / less likely to get
affected in future
# EXTENT to which recovery – rate will go up / down , and
where
# What could be the MORTALTY RATE ( region-wise / Strata-wise
/
education-wise /
Income Level – wise etc )
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I wish
to repeat :
Ø Data ( suggested for
compilation in my e-mail Rationing
of Covid Vaccine ? 06 July 2020
), must be compiled for all 1.3 billion citizen –
and not just those with comorbidity / or any sub-group
Ø Only time a citizen would quietly agree
to submit such data ( to health worker giving the shot ), will be BEFORE giving the shot. If
data is not collected / entered into online Technology Platform BEFORE giving the shot,
then we might as well forget ! What can health worker do if the person simply
walks away ?
Ø Without such COMPREHENSIVE DATA , Artificial Intelligent software will fail miserably in prediction
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 07 Dec 2020
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