- When someone reaches the appropriate age, for example, our system will automatically issue a referral and generate this information. The patient just needs to go for the vaccination. We started a few years ago with a low response rate. Today, about 50 percent of people from such referrals already come forward for vaccination," Monika Tomaszewska, Department of Clinical Management and Medical Projects at LUX MED Group, told Medexpress in an interview during the Vaccine Forum.
Monika Tomaszewska: we have achieved a much higher vaccination rate than in the general population
Published Oct. 18, 2024 09:33
How do large medical groups carry out their role in educating about prevention?
Very broadly. These are years of experience and learning also from mistakes and failures. Today we can say that we have a model that reaches out to our patients and customers quite extensively and from different angles. It seems that we are already far along in terms of health promotion and prevention. These are good enough that the vaccination rate of the population against influenza, for example, is much higher in our country than in the general population.
We have introduced something called a standardized recommendation. We have plugged into our medical system algorithms related to the immunization program: mandatory and recommended. When someone reaches the appropriate age, for example, our system will automatically issue a referral and generate this information. The patient just has to go for the vaccination. We started a few years ago with a low response rate. Today, about 50 percent of people from such referrals are already showing up for vaccination. We also monitor the effectiveness of prevention activities through company health balances, which we do for our clients, but also for ourselves as a company - because we are our own client, too. Thanks to this, we know very well how prevention translates into absenteeism, hospitalizations or presenteeism, which, after all, is so much talked about nowadays.
It's also important that we use all medical professions today that have the authority to do this to educate. We can't fool ourselves into thinking that the doctor himself will have enough time to be responsible for this.
Fortunately, the Chief Sanitary Inspector is an absolute supporter and fan of vaccination. This can be seen, for example, in the communications we get as entities and the actions we should carry out. It's just a bit lacking to pin down all the actions and make it a nationwide program.
