What is the name of your organization?
Simprints
What is the name of your solution?
Biometrics for vaccine delivery
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Using contactless biometrics for verified delivery of vaccines at the frontlines to minimise wastage, and improve data quality
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Cambridge
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
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What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
Across the developing world, there are huge gaps between administrative and WHO survey vaccine coverage data. The average gap in Bangladesh is over 17 percent and in Nigeria the discrepancy rises to 34%. This lack of accurate data makes it extremely difficult for frontline health workers to accurately administer care.
What is your solution?
Simprints' solution is a camera-based, contactless, biometric product, which utilises facial recognition to ensure the verified delivery of every vaccine dose . Health workers register people's biometrics against a record on a data collection app with their vaccination history. The next time a beneficiary turns up, the health worker can pull up their record using face biometrics, ensuring that the right record is identified and a continuum of care is maintained. Contactless biometrics also protect health workers from potential transmission by fomites. Further, biometric identification offers a powerful and under-leveraged strategy to verify coverage and impact of development interventions, ensuring every dollar is accounted for to prevent waste and fraud.
To counter the racial and gender biases found in camera-based algorithms, Simprints' contactless biometrics solution harnesses inclusive, ethical AI to improve accuracy, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Vaccine cards and registers are a common sight in health clinics across the developing world. However, they pose a significant challenge for health workers to maintain, as paper records are easily lost or misplaced. For beneficiaries, most often children, lost health cards often mean missing out on life-saving doses of essential vaccines. Another consequence of these challenges is wastage of valuable vaccine doses, as they often go unaccounted for.
To address these challenges, Simprints has been working with Ministries of Health and health workers over the past 5 years to build a rugged solution suitable for the last mile. As a result, our contactless biometrics solution can be used in the field without any internet connectivity, and has been designed keeping health worker needs in mind. By tying beneficiary health records to biometrics, Simprints can help capture those who fall through the cracks between household, health post, and centre.
