# Systems and Tools Implemented to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Data
> **Review** by Department of Veterans Affairs OIG · 2021-12-07
> *About: Department of Veterans Affairs*
## Report
- **Title:** Systems and Tools Implemented to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Data
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Veterans Affairs OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Type:** Review
- **Publication date:** 2021-12-07

## Summary

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) examined whether the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented data collection and reporting systems to report on the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to VA medical facilities and doses administered to VA employees and veterans enrolled in VA’s healthcare system (approximately 9.5 million individuals).


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Closed): The OIG recommended the under secretary for health develop processes for verifying facility data entered on the Pharmacy Benefits Management Services’ SharePoint website (or any subsequent data collection tool) for vaccine supply and usage.
- **Rec 2** (Closed): The OIG recommended the under secretary for health develop a process to monitor the use of tools that have been fielded to standardize data entry for vaccine doses administered by VA medical facilities and clinics to minimize data entry errors,…
- **Rec 3** (Closed): The OIG recommended the under secretary for health make sure that the Power BI dashboard data are reliable, accurate, and complete, and capture all vaccine data more accurately for VA medical facilities in the same healthcare system.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/systems-and-tools-implemented-track-covid-19-vaccine-data)
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