Salesforce Vaccine Cloud

Vaccine Cloud for Providers helps to connect people with thousands of vaccination sites. A scalable workflow simplifies vaccine administration.

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Vaccine Cloud was built to play a central role in connecting vaccines to people equitably and efficiently. Vaccine Cloud will help health authorities, healthcare providers, and organizations more safely and efficiently manage vaccine programs at scale. With Vaccine Cloud, customers will be able to design, build, integrate, and manage their vaccine programs end-to-end, with a platform that is trusted, flexible, and can be deployed quickly. Vaccine Cloud provides solutions like Health Command Center, Vaccine Inventory Management, Vaccination Appointment Scheduling, Clinical Vaccine Administration, Vaccination Outcome Monitoring, Public Health Notifications, and Digital Health Credentials to help customers build and scale their vaccine administration management capabilities to address the next phase of this global pandemic.

Work.com for Vaccines has now become Vaccine Cloud.

Work.com for Vaccines was developed and launched to support public sector customers and their vaccination management needs. Work.com for Vaccines was critical in helping governments and public health agencies scale vaccine management and distribution as vaccines were waiting to be approved for use around the world.

As authorized COVID-19 vaccines have become available, there is shifting demand for vaccine management technology that can address all the needs of customers at scale, not just across public sector but also among healthcare providers, retail pharmacies, businesses, nonprofits, educational institutions, and other organizations. Vaccine Cloud is our solution to address these growing needs across industries and organizations.

Vaccine Cloud is a set of solutions aimed at addressing a variety of challenges that governments, healthcare providers and employers will face for vaccine administration.

Vaccine Cloud includes capabilities across the Salesforce Customer 360 portfolio including technology powered by Tableau and MuleSoft that can be leveraged by our AppExchange ecosystem of partners to support vaccine administration needs, including:

Inventory Management
Vaccination Site and Staffing
Vaccine Appointment Scheduling
Patient Consent
Clinical Vaccine Administration
Health Command Center Visibility
Vaccination Outcome Monitoring
Health Notifications
Clinician Training and Certification
Payment Processing
Digital Health Credentials

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Vaccine Cloud helps public health authorities, healthcare providers, and nonprofits quickly scale vaccine operations, from recipient registration and scheduling to inventory management and public health outreach.

San Francisco — January 27, 2021 — Salesforce, [NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today announced Vaccine Cloud, technology to help government agencies, healthcare organizations, businesses, nonprofits and educational institutions more rapidly, safely and efficiently deploy and manage their vaccine programs. Today, international, federal, state and local agencies, healthcare providers and nonprofits worldwide are using Salesforce technology specifically for vaccine administration, including Northwell Health, Illinois’ Lake County, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and more.

Now that safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are available, every country, state and city is rapidly establishing vaccination programs to get shots in the arms of billions of people. However, many government agencies and healthcare organizations don’t have the technology infrastructure in place to handle the complexity, speed and scale necessary for vaccine administration, such as inventory and logistics management, getting people registered and scheduled for their vaccines, and recipient outreach and vaccine outcome monitoring. Governments are also partnering with private sector companies to help manage this mass vaccination effort, and these businesses need the same technology infrastructure to help deliver safe, efficient and effective vaccine administrations and programs.

“The biggest challenge the world faces right now is orchestrating the distribution of billions of vaccine doses. Technology can play a critical role in ensuring it’s done efficiently, effectively, and equitably,” said Bret Taylor, President and COO of Salesforce. “We’re proud to be supporting organizations through their recovery and helping to protect people from the effects of COVID-19.”

President Biden moves COVID-19 vaccine availability deadline for American adults to April 19; Salesforce Vaccine Cloud adds asynchronous bookings on more channels to meet surge.

Salesforce on Thursday released a free update to Vaccine Cloud users that enables preregistration for COVID-19 appointments to meet a coming sign-up rush as most U.S. adults will be eligible for their shots April 19.

The Salesforce vaccine distribution system, released in January, now can accept preregistrations for COVID-19 vaccinations. The site will notify people as appointments become available, and process them through a personalized, single-use link. The system also can create appointments and push notifications through multiple channels such as text and email, where before it was web-based.

The asynchronous appointment bookings come as President Joe Biden moved up the deadline for states to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccination from May 1 to April 19. While almost half of states already offer vaccinations to residents 16 or older, massive site traffic will likely come as the rest of the country becomes newly eligible on April 19.

That could pose a problem for Salesforce’s ability to handle a surge in sign-ups, said Nicole France, Constellation Research analyst. Whether built on Salesforce or on other platforms, most state and regional vaccine sites and mobile apps have worked less than optimally so far. Several vendors offer vaccine management platforms, including Microsoft, IBM, ServiceNow and Qualtrics.

“It’s hard to single out Salesforce,” France said. “Almost universally, all the web sites for getting access to vaccines are just absolutely [not good]. They may have different kinds of bugs, or faults, but none of them are good.”

Content updated April 2021.