CANImmunize

I have traveled and worked abroad for the last 18 years and it has always been a pain to keep up with all the vaccinations I have had, pictures and paper to keep track of. I have found some other apps but primarily based around scheduling your childhood vaccinations and not tracking your history. This app has all of that with a very comprehensive list of vaccinations. 4 stars only because the vaccines are listed by date with no option to list/filter by vaccine so you have to scroll through all of them (which is many in my case) to find the vaccine I’m looking for.

I’ve been attempting to digitize my civilian and military immunization records. I have decades of yellow forms filled with nearly indecipherable vaccinations, dates and signatures that I want to transfer to a digital record. Nearly 2.5 decades after the advent of powerful computing resources, you’d think there would be something electronic... anything digital for parents and patients to use. I read about an app for Canadians called CANImmunuze that makes vaccination recording and tracking so easy. It’s even on the iOS App Store for free. But it’s for Canadians and interacts with the Canadian public health services only. It’s especially useful in terms of pediatric immunizations, currently kind of a hot topic. I started thinking about it and looked for an American equivalent... there is none. Of course there is none. Why would the most advanced economy in North America deploy anything that sensible and error free? A variety of hospitals have my vaccination record but don’t share it between proprietary digital platforms. How is it possible that the U.S., currently in the throes of a measles outbreak is not deploying a portable digital vaccination record like CANImmunize?

This app works very well but it would be nice to be able to add the name of a vaccine product that is not in the database set up on the App. You can only add a vaccine like Imojev as brand unknown and write information in the notes section. Also, it would be nice to have the application update my Apple health account. Still the best immunization app I have found.