Digital Transformation of Handwritten Child Vaccination Cards to Support Immunization Practice and Surveillance in Switzerland (DigVacc)

The project develops an AI-supported solution to make handwritten children’s vaccination records digitally usable and available in a standards-compliant format.

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Vaccination records in Switzerland are largely paper-based, handwritten, and variable in format, making them susceptible to loss and errors and limiting their usefulness for clinical decision-making and public health surveillance.

The project team is developing an AI-powered pipeline to digitize handwritten children’s vaccination cards into CH VACD-conformant HL7 FHIR/JSON data, enabling real-time capture, batch processing, and integration with a physician app and a standardized database to support clinical workflows and nationwide vaccination surveillance.