Immunisation through

technology

Associate Professor

Christopher PearcePhD, MFM, MBBS, FRACGP, FACRRM, FAICD, FACHI

Director of Research, Melbourne East General Practice Network

Adjunct – Monash University

Clinical Vaccinology Update Monash Caufield November 2015

Technology can help

2

Your Care – when and where

you need it

3

Getting the balance right…

Big Data = Quick Data

Big Data is nothing more than lots and lots of

little data…

Data/Information

SMS adverse reaction to vaccination

SMS AEFI? y/n

Yes

SMS -medically attended ?

Yes

No

SMS – urlonline survey

Nature, Duration, Severity No

A Data Warehouse – for

data…

POLAR• 50 practices

• 200+ GPs

• 1,000,000+ patients

• Longitudinal and patient centred data

• Geographic coverage

• 10 years of data quality activities

https://iemml.org.au/polar-data

Clinical Informatics

Questions?

Chris Pearce (drchrispearce@mac.com)

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