National Immunization Conference

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VMBIP Distribution Team Overview

• National Immunization Conference
• Washington, DC
• March 20, 2005

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The design of the distribution and ordering
processes has required significant collaboration

• The membership of the distribution working team
  includes representatives from NIP and AIM
• NIP team members represent the Program Operations
  Branch, Program Support Branch, Immunization
  Services Division, the Office of the Director and
  the Procurement and Grants Office
• AIM team members represent Alaska, California,
  Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, New York, New
  York City, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia
• The team has held weekly conference calls since
  early October attendance and participation has
  been exceptionally high
• The team met its goal of drafting business rules
  recommendations in time to post the Request For
  Information (RFI) in mid-December

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The business rules to support order management
with the doses administered accountability method
and were presented to AIM in January
Draft Business Rules Presented to AIM in January
JANUARY VERSION
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Feedback from grantees led to further
investigation and a better understanding of the
wide variety of data collection and
accountability practices
Accountability Methods Case Study
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Although the business rules are still being
finalized, we expect they will require less
provider behavior change than the original
recommendation
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
DRAFT Current Thinking Around Business Rules
for Ordering
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The current VMBIP implementation plan separates
the development effort for centralized
distribution, centralized ordering and common
accountability
VMBIP Implementation Key Activities
D R A F TT I M E L I N E
Pilot centralized distribution
Centralized distribution rollout
Distribution
Design ordering system
Pilotordering system
Centralized ordering rollout
Ordering
Implement common accountability(through VMAP?)
Accountability
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The distribution team is putting together the
distribution RFP and designing the central order
management system

• Distribution
• The team is working toward an RFP (Request For
  Proposal) that will kick off the centralization
  of distribution
• Ordering
• The team is working to finalize the business
  requirements for a centralized ordering
  management model
• The team will work together to identify
  additional functionality (e.g. accountability
  data collection) that would be beneficial to
  grantees
• Accountability
• Once the centralization of distribution and
  ordering is underway, the focus will shift to
  investigating and incorporating accountability
  best practices

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Questions Contact Info
Mary Mulholland VMBIP Distribution
Lead http//www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vmbip/
downloads/nic/05-distrib-order.ppt