Province marking a milestone with First Nation health partners – rdnewsnow.com

Feb 21, 2022

Officials with the Alberta government say immunization records for First Nation members are now reliably accessible in real time, marking an important step to help reduce preventable disease.

After a decade of collaborative work, government officials say First Nations’ immunization records are now fully integrated into Alberta’s electronic health records system regardless whether the immunizations were administered on or off reserve. It’s said that this will provide health-care professionals with accurate and timely immunization history to follow up on scheduling routine immunizations for children as well as immunization for adults, and in turn protect families from vaccine-preventable serious illness and save lives.

Siksika Nation, Stoney First Nations, Maskwacis and Bigstone Cree Nation were the first to successfully share the records with Alberta Health about a decade ago. The work to integrate the immunization information from every First Nation is now complete.

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