Vaccine safety has become a hotly debated subject in the whole of society. Vaccine safety incidents including the faulty vaccines produced by Changchun Biotechnology, expired vaccines in Jiangsu Province, and mixed-up vaccines in Shijiazhuang City trouble every parent in China. While deeply concerned with vaccine issues, people begin to raise serious questions as to how we can prevent faulty vaccines from getting into circulation. How can we trace all vaccines throughout the process from manufacturing to inoculation? How can we utilize new technologies such as IoT to improve the well-being of the society?

It is against such a background that the Haier Smart Vaccine Network has been established. Centered around the health of children, Haier has introduced the world’s first IoT smart vaccine ecosystem solution and has created a human-machine-vaccine ecosystem to ensure error-free vaccine pick-up, instant blocking of faulty vaccines and fully-traceable vaccination. The Haier Smart Vaccine Network is committed to providing satisfactory solutions for all parties including children, parents, injection sites and governments.

Tianjin Dawangzhuang Community Health Service Center, China’s first smart vaccination site

In 2018, Tianjin Dawangzhuang Community Health Service Center, a user of Haier vaccine refrigerators, approached Haier and expressed their concerns about the potential risks of the manual process of vaccination, which has drawn the attention of Gong Yi, general manager of the Haier Biomedical Smart Vaccine Network.

Like all parents, Gong Yi, himself a father, is quite sensitive to vaccine issues. To find out about the real needs of the market, he visited dozens of injection sites and communicated with the medical staff. It is during this process that he noticed some loopholes in some vaccines-related products.

After several months, the Haier Smart Vaccine Network Solution is fully implemented with the launch of an IoT cold-room vaccine refrigerator, a vaccine refrigerator beside the inoculation counter and a vaccine administration management system. Haier reinvents the injection sites with digitization and intelligent technologies and provides a one-stop vaccination model covering queue management, registration, one-on-one inoculation, observation and discharge management. The Haier Smart Vaccine Network is the first fully-digitized and fully-trackable smart vaccination service in China.

(Leaders of the Tianjin Health Committee and the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention visited the Haier Smart Vaccine Network injection site)

An all-around urban smart vaccine network for a better future

After the implementation of the Haier Smart Vaccine Network at the Tianjin Dawangzhuang Community Health Service Center, industrial counterparts and leaders from Inner Mongolia, Guangxi Province and Henan Province etc. all visited the center and made plans to replicate the solutions in their own cities.

To date, the Haier Smart Vaccine Network has covered 16 cities in the Tianjin Municipality, Inner Mongolia, Hubei Province, Henan Province, Guangdong Province and Jilin Province. Covered by Haier’s safety network, over 4 million children can now receive error-free vaccinations.  

In early November 2019, Haier Biomedical works together with the Shenzhen Government to build an urban smart vaccine network, which is the first of its kind in China and sets the standard for urban vaccine safety ecosystems. The Haier Smart Vaccine Network with its all-around coverage plays a leading role in the innovation of smart vaccination and builds a safety net for the full-process monitoring and tracking of vaccines.

Smart mobiles vaccination vehicle leads to greater convenience in special circumstances

In fact, children in some areas have limited access to vaccinations, especially in some remote areas with inadequate transportation; when natural disasters occur or during serious infectious disease outbreaks, temporary injection camps cannot make sure that vaccine administration protocols are followed and that vaccines are safely administered. To cope with these issues, Haier Biomedical has upgraded and iterated its smart vaccine network and has equipped vehicles with a smart mobiles vaccination platform to provide vaccination services in special circumstances.

(Smart mobiles vaccination platform for special circumstances)

Haier Smart mobiles Vaccination Vehicles change the way vaccination services are delivered from passive contact to an active search for those who need vaccination. Through this proactive approach, children in mountainous areas, pasturing areas and disaster areas can have access to the same vaccination services as children in cities. Haier Smart mobiles Vaccination Vehicles ensure the convenience, fairness, coverage and timeliness essential to vaccination. Moreover, the vaccination vehicles are equipped with IoT technologies and a digital vaccination management system, which can keep all the records and trace all the processes and carry out real-time interactions with government CDC systems, while maintaining accuracy and promptness.  

People’s health and well-being depends on vaccination safety. Haier provides efficient and safe vaccination solutions with IoT technology as a way of fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities. It is the same responsibilities that drive Haier to create a new scientific ecosystem, which provides the best iterated user experience, rapid replication and constant innovations, rebuilds confidence among the public, and truly benefits society.