Assessment of Vaccination Status Among Pediatrics in a Tertiary Care Setting.

Purpose: Vaccination is one of the best cost-effective methods for preventing childhood morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to identify children with missed and delayed vaccinations along with factors associated with incomplete vaccinations. Methodology: A prospective observational study was conducted for 7 months. Relevant data was collected through a face-to-face interview and immunization status was evaluated based on their vaccination card which was compared against UIP. Result: Out of 347 subjects, 93.94% of them were completely immunized and majority of the missed vaccines were measles 1st dose (58.82%), Japanese Encephalitis vaccine 1st dose (29.41%). Lack of access to health care, less contact of adolescents to physicians, missed opportunities for vaccination, resistance towards immunization and poor birth weight were the reasons identified for incomplete vaccination. Conclusion: Immunization is one of the biggest health accomplishments saving millions of lives. Our study concluded that most of the participants were completely immunized indicating a positive attitude towards immunization. However, further exploration is required to assess and improve the vaccination coverage among rural population.

Pill reminder app and pill dispenser kit using internet of things / 国际药学研究杂志

Most of the elders have multiple chronic diseases and they use medicines to stabilize their health conditions. IoT based healthcare services have a major potential for automation, let alone the drastic changes that it would bring in the field of healthcare and medicine. With time our life is integrated so much with mobile technologies that we rely on it on multiple occasions. Health care is a major concern for elderly people since intake of proper medicine at prescribed time is a challenge and providing services via technologies is a sigh of relief. The nucleus of this paper is to remind the people constantly and ensure that the tablet is taken properly. If the user does not give any response to the alert or alert is snoozed more than twice or in case if the mobile phone is turned off the notification is sent to the care taker. When the count of the tablet is decreased as per the amount mentioned in the app the notification will terminate automatically. The heart of this app is that, the tablet count is maintained and the appropriate message is sent to the nearby registered medical pharmacist for refilling purposes.