As the Phase 1a vaccination roll-out began this week in Australia, we had a quick chat to some of the head honchos at Cerner Asia Pacific about how the EMR vendor was helping its users in Australia get with the program. Cerner started working on a mass vaccination solution for its global clients in the middle of last year having foreseen that this would prove somewhat useful, and it has since swung into action and rolled it out in the US and the UK, which is acting as a reference site for Australian users.

Cerner sites such as Royal Prince Alfred, Liverpool and Westmead hospitals in Sydney and The Alfred in Melbourne began using the COVID-19 vaccination update that Cerner has tailored for the local market this week, with vaccination data able to be extracted and uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). We hear that a couple of Queensland hospitals are also using the new capability.