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RSS FeedsOntario failed to build a reliable vaccination tracking system and for now uses the honour system, Star investigation finds
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16 march 2019 02:33:12

 
Ontario failed to build a reliable vaccination tracking system and for now uses the honour system, Star investigation finds
(The Star Food)
 


Ontario is using the equivalent of an honour system to track student vaccinations after it spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a failed attempt to collect more reliable data.The system, called ICON, is an online tool for parents to enter their kids’ vaccination details.At a time of recent measles outbreaks in British Columbia and worldwide, top doctors say relying on parents to be honest is an unacceptable way to protect public health.Numerous studies show self-reporting is prone to significant error. Ontario’s ICON system allows for both accidental and intentional misinformation.Accurate vaccination data is essential to predicting a population’s vulnerability to outbreaks. Unreliable immunization information could lead to public health officials having “no ability to see danger coming,” said Dr. David Fisman, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.“I can’t imagine that we’d rely on self-reporting for university graduation, payment of taxes or having passed your driver’s test,” said Fisman, a former associate medical officer of health in Hamilton. Read more:Vaccination registry for B.C. schoolchildren coming ‘as soon as possible,’ says ministryMeasles outbreaks show why ‘vaccine-hesitancy’ is a global health threatCanada’s chief health officer takes aim at misinformation in measles outbreakIt wasn’t meant to be this way.Ontario recently built a reporting program for health-care providers, called ICON-HCP, but then scrapped it at a cost of $660,000.EHealth Ontario had developed the reporting site without consulting front-line workers to make sure it would be compatible with the 12 different electronic medical record systems that are used across the province.Everyone was so confident the system would work that in 2017, the Liberal government moved to amend the Immunization of School ...


 
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