The COVID-19 pandemic has put an enormous burden on public health, healthcare agencies, and organizations across the world. Experts from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are leading vaccine development, while experts from the Department of Defense (DoD) have partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other parts of HHS to coordinate supply, production, and distribution of vaccines. However, successful rollout of the national vaccination program requires close collaboration among federal, state, and local healthcare entities for information dissemination and scheduling to the public. Additionally, there are a number of challenges for state and local agencies in communicating with the public on vaccination, rollout strategy, eligibility, and campaign management. These challenges include tracking patient and vaccine data, vaccine supply and demand logistics, and more broadly, data sharing across healthcare entities for the entire vaccine lifecycle.
This whitepaper outlines some of these challenges and provides an approach to address these challenges using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, digital communication, and cognitive intelligence technologies.
