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Lawmakers weigh restoring funding for MyCA VAX, CalConnect and other public-health IT systems
Summary
CDPH said decommissioning the Vaccine Management System (VMS)/MyCA VAX and related systems (Sapphire, CalConnect, CAIR/CARIP III) would disrupt vaccine ordering, inventory and outbreak response; local health officials and provider groups urged restoring funding.
The California Department of Public Health told the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on March 10 that maintenance and operations funding is needed for three infectious-disease data systems: CalConnect, Sapphire and the California Immunization Registry project (Care3 / CAIR/CarIP III). Department witnesses said the budget-year cost to continue the VMS (including MyCA VAX and related vaccine ordering and digital records tools) would be about $44 million, and without it CDPH would have to "decommission the VMS system."
A CDPH representative said such decommissioning would…
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