Establishing a Health Information Technology for the Vaccination of National Institutes of Health Staff

Healthcare organizations faced unique operational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assuring the safety of both patients and healthcare workers in hospitals has been the primary focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NIH Vaccine Program (VP) with the Vaccine Management System (VMS) was creat...

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Published in:	Applied biosafety Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 231 - 236
Main Authors:	McKeeby, Jon Walter, Siwy, Christopher M, Southers, Jordan, Newcomer, Derek A, Hughes, Samantha, Sano, Jeffery M, Patel, Jharana J, Kanthan, Falguni, Farinre, Marilyn, Brose, Megan Morgan, Anderson, Rebecca V, Chan, Judy, Bailin, Heike, Bell, Michael R, McLamb, John S, Novak, Stephen, House, Dennis J, Sparks, Mary J, Nansel, Michael, Carlson, Seth D, Liu, Yenshei, Stephens, Cory, Tsui, Erin, Coffey, Patricia S, McCormick-Ell, Jessica
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 01-12-2022
Subjects:	COVID-19 software development healthcare workers interdisciplinary team vaccine clinic
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Summary:	Healthcare organizations faced unique operational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assuring the safety of both patients and healthcare workers in hospitals has been the primary focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NIH Vaccine Program (VP) with the Vaccine Management System (VMS) was created based on the commitment of NIH leadership, program leadership, the development team, and the program team; defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the VP and the VMS; and the NIH Clinical Center's (NIH CC) interdisciplinary approach to deploying the VMS. This article discusses the NIH business requirements of the VP and VMS, the target KPIs of the VP and the VMS, and the NIH CC interdisciplinary approach to deploying an organizational VMS for vaccinating the NIH workforce. The use of the DCRI Spiral-Agile Software Development Life Cycle enabled the development of a system with stakeholder involvement that could quickly adapt to changing requirements meeting the defined KPIs for the program and system. The assessment of the defined KPIs through a survey and comments from the survey support that the VP and VMS were successful. A comprehensive program to maintain a healthy workforce includes asymptomatic COVID testing, symptomatic COVID testing, contact tracing, vaccinations, and policy-driven education. The need to develop systems during the pandemic resulted in changes to build software quickly with the input of many more users and stakeholders then typical in a decreased amount of time.
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ISSN:	1535-6760 2470-1246
DOI:	10.1089/apb.2022.0011