Overview

The Decision Support System for Vaccination (SADV), developed by Syadem, is SaaS (Software as a Service) software that provides personalized vaccination recommendations compliant with current recommendations.

To establish these recommendations, SADV takes into account the patient’s demographic, medical and socio-professional characteristics, vaccination history, and any planned trips.

Uses and Target Audiences

SADV covers two complementary uses:

  • providing vaccination decision support to trained professionals authorized to prescribe vaccines (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, midwives);
  • providing personalized vaccination information to the general public.

Concepts

SADV is based on the following concepts:

Vaccination diagnosis
A set of vaccination recommendations for a given patient. Example: the output indicates, for each disease, whether vaccination should be performed now, later, or whether the patient is up to date.
Vaccination recommendation
A recommendation concerning a given patient and a given target disease. It includes the vaccination status (late or up to date) and the suggested action. Example: recommending a booster from a specific date for a given disease.
Condition
A characteristic that can affect vaccination recommendations (for example, pregnancy or chronic disease). Each condition has a specific type: boolean, date, integer, etc. Example: "pregnancy" (boolean) or "date of last infection" (date).
Health profile
A set of condition values associated with a patient. It takes the form of key-value pairs where the key is a condition identifier. Example: a profile may combine medical history, occupational exposures, and dates of clinical events.

Nomenclatures

SADV relies on two nomenclatures to structure input data:

  • NUVA : nomenclature of vaccines and target diseases, used to encode vaccination history.
  • VaccinationProfile : nomenclature of health profile conditions (pregnancy, history, test results).

Access and integration methods are detailed on their dedicated pages.

Integration Path

A typical integration path consists of three steps:

  1. Understand the overall operation of the SADV API and the data model.
  2. Configure access to the right instance and authentication.
  3. Send a first patient record to an SADV API endpoint to obtain a vaccination diagnosis.

Next Step

Discover the basics of the SADV API, its API endpoints, and the available integration modes.