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Estonia adopts a vaccine distribution app built by volunteers
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Family physicians and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund have started using an application developed by Estonian logistics startup Sixfold along with a team of volunteers whose aim is to facilitate a more efficient distribution and delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines.
At the beginning of March, a joint workgroup was assembled by the Estonian state and various leading tech entrepreneurs, to find ways in which the private sector could contribute to resolving the coronavirus crisis.
The challenge set focused on how the vaccines could better reach family physicians and onwards to the general public, and was chosen from among the ideas offered by the workgroup. A digital vaccine delivery solution was created within three weeks that, as of the time of writing this article, is being used by the planners of the Health Insurance Fund and physicians. The application helps save thousands of valuable work time hours
Family doctors and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Haigekassa) have started using a free application to speed up the distribution and delivery of covid-19 vaccines. The application was developed by Estonian logistics startup Sixfold and a team of volunteers.
At the beginning of March, a workgroup was assembled by the Estonian state and various leading tech entrepreneurs to find ways in which the private sector could contribute to resolving the Coronavirus crisis.
The group wanted to work out how vaccines could better reach family doctors and the general public. A digital vaccine delivery solution was created within three weeks and is now being used by the planners of the Health Insurance Fund and physicians.