Text Messaging for Vaccination Programs — Send Vaccination Reminders

Text messaging for vaccination programs have become a topic of great interest. This is because many countries around the world have started vaccination programs for COVID19. In fact, it is a great way to increase the vaccination rate, both first and second doses. Text messaging has become the obvious as well as easiest solution to send vaccination reminders. To be more precise, SMS has an open rate of 98% compared to email’s 20%.

However, it is not only for reminders that you can use SMS notifications for. In fact, you can use text messaging for the whole vaccination process. This applies to starting from registration to sending out details to people.

Registration for Vaccination

You can make available several options for people to register for vaccination. That way, they can choose one that is most convenient for them.

SMS

Online Forms

Phone Calls

Social Media Messaging Channels

USSD Text Messaging

Managing All the Collected Data of People Registered for Vaccination

As you can see in the image below, you can let people get registered via different methods. But, with ShoutOUT, you can get all that information collected via different platforms into one database system. So, you can easily view and manage all collected data in one place. Then, you can set up the SMS campaigns for different stages of the process via that platform itself. In fact, from there on, you can continue communicate as for all registered people via text messaging.

Text Messaging for Vaccination Program Process

Once the registration process is complete, you have all the information in the central database. So, you can start sending out SMS campaigns as required.

First vaccine dose details

Reminder for the first dose

Vaccination Confirmation

Reminder text message for the second dose

How to Send Vaccination Text Message Campaigns without a Hassle

You can easily send out all these text message notifications using the ShoutOUT Messaging Platform. There, you can send personalized as well as customized messages in bulk. As you can see in the above image, you can create different segments of people (contacts). They could be “First Dose -Uptown”, “Second Dose -13th Block”, “First Dose Reminder-Downtown” etc. Using ShoutOUT’s segmentation feature, you can categorize all registered people into different groups as needed. This way, you can easily manage them throughout the whole process. That way, you can send the relevant campaign to the relevant group of people only.

Moreover, you can also personalize each text message using each person’s name, automatically. The best feature is that you can customize each message to automatically include each person’s attributes. Those attributes could include the date, time, venue, appointment number etc.

What’s more, you can save these text messages as templates. That way, you can either edit them or use them as many times as you require.

Look at the image below to check out all the aforementioned features as well as more features you can use through the ShoutOUT Messaging Platform.

Why Choose Text Messaging for the Vaccination Process

Manual Process

People have stay in long queues for registration and vaccination.

Manual errors in taking down personal information.

Time consuming.

Organization via Text Messaging

People can register without visiting the hospital or the medical institute.

Inform them of vaccination details faster and accurately.

There will not be any queues because you have notified each person previously the time slot you have allocated for them.

Are you a medical institute that is a COVID19 or any vaccination center? Then, text messaging is a better way you can utilize to organize the whole process. It will help you, the whole staff as well as the people not be in a hassle. So, to use text messaging for your institute’s vaccination program, sign up to create an account on the ShoutOUT website. If you feel like you need to know more details about how the whole thing works, please contact us.

There are many other ways you can use text messaging if you are a healthcare institute. Read more on Text Messaging for Healthcare in Medical Clinics for Patients.