How IT Solutions Support COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain Logistics

The process of tracking, storing, and distributing millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental undertaking, requiring an array of IT tools to coordinate and maintain fluid supply chains.

As healthcare providers grapple with the rapid and unprecedented mass development, distribution, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines, they are turning to technologies such as RFID tags and 2D barcodes, which can encode vaccine identification information to help reduce errors and make vaccines traceable.

One factor that could support the rollout, according to Sara Jost, global healthcare industry lead at BlackBerry, is a mass notification engine that could send and receive notifications as the vaccines travel along the supply and distribution chains.

“This would allow each group — from pharmaceutical distribution, government, healthcare administration, healthcare workers and patients — to have easy and accurate communication,” she says.