HoustonChronicle.Com - Internet Registry Helps Track Immunizations

HoustonChronicle.Com - Internet Registry Helps Track Immunizations

A Web-based registry helps parents, doctors and schools keep track of children’s immunization records and schedules

By SALATHEIA BRYANT
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Deloitte & Touche LLP financial analyst Leah Trilli usually spends her workday examining complicated documents to determine a company’s value.

But today she’s poring over one child’s immunization records — shots for measles, polio, tetanus — slowly typing in the data from paper cards to an electronic template, careful not to make a mistake.

When finally completed, Trilli pumped her fist triumphantly in the air. It took her about 40 minutes to input one shot record into the system, which health officials are hoping will help improve the city’s dismal vaccination rates — 61.4 percent compared with a national average of 75 percent in 2002, the latest figures.

“The average time is about four minutes,” Trilli offered. “We’re used to working with numbers for huge corporations. This is a different project because you’re dealing with individual people. There’s a learning curve you have to get over.”

23 June, 2005 |

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