Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely tested humanity, revealing the need to develop and improve the medical, economic, managerial, and IT components of vaccine management systems. The vaccine lifecycle includes vaccine research and development, production, distribution, and vaccination of the population. To manage this cycle effectively the proper organizational and IT support model of the interaction of vaccine lifecycle management stakeholders is needed—which are an innovation ecosystem and an appropriate virtual platform. A literature review has revealed the lack of methodological basis for the vaccine innovation ecosystem and virtual platform. This article is devoted to the development of a complex approach for the development of an innovation ecosystem based on vaccine lifecycle management and a virtual platform which provides the data exchange environment and IT support for the ecosystem stakeholders. The methodological foundation of the solution, developed in the article, is an enterprise architecture approach, CALS technologies, supply chain management and an open innovation philosophy. The results, presented in the article, are supposed to be a reference set of models for the creation of a vaccine innovation ecosystem, both during pandemics and periods of stable viral load.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world’s population aware of the importance of integrated multidisciplinary approaches to solving global problems, in particular in the field of healthcare
The safe use of vaccines will require proper vaccine management and supply chain management, which will be determined by the characteristics of the finished vaccine product
It is essential to ensure that a national system for tracking and monitoring the use of vaccine products is in place to manage multiple vaccine products, manage the supply of vaccines for subsequent doses of vaccines, participate in the monitoring of vaccine safety, and address potential drug withdrawals, and their series/parties
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world’s population aware of the importance of integrated multidisciplinary approaches to solving global problems, in particular in the field of healthcare. The pandemic has highlighted the problem of the impossibility of responding effectively to the global epidemic challenge by individual (even influential, global) private companies, putting on the agenda the relevance of combining the efforts of all stakeholders in the fight against the spread of the virus. Such discussions, in particular, refer to vaccine lifecycle management approaches. The current pandemic has highlighted the need to develop comprehensive solutions (organizational and IT) to unify the stakeholders of the entire vaccine lifecycle together in order to perform collaboration processes that are smoother and to provide faster and more effective responses to virus challenges. With the active development of digital technologies and platform solutions, it seems to be possible to provide the appropriate IT support to such an innovation ecosystem
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