Follow-up for children's clinics
Paediatrics has the most predictable recall schedule in medicine. Every child's next dose is computable from their date of birth: six, ten and fourteen weeks, then nine, fifteen and eighteen months, then boosters at four to six years and beyond. Nothing about it needs guessing, and most of it still depends on a parent remembering.
A calendar that already exists
Unlike almost every other specialty, the paediatric recall list does not need to be inferred. The immunisation schedule is fixed, published and identical for every child. Give a clinic a date of birth and every future due date is already determined.
That means a lapsed dose is never a data problem. It is purely a question of whether anything acted on a date the practice already had.
Where the schedule breaks
Early doses go well because parents are anxious and visits are frequent. The failures cluster later: the fifteen and eighteen month doses, the four to six year boosters, and the adolescent ones, when the child is well and the family has moved on.
Families that change address, or clinics that close for a period, lose whole cohorts at once, and nothing in the practice notices.
What Insor does for a paediatric practice
It computes every child's due dates from their records and reaches the parent when each one approaches, by call and on WhatsApp, in the language the family uses.
It follows up after a visit when a child has been unwell, flags anything the parent reports that needs the doctor, and gives the clinic one weekly summary of who is due and who has lapsed.
Questions doctors ask
- Do you follow the IAP immunisation schedule?
- The schedule is configured by the clinic, so it follows whatever the practice itself uses. Due dates are then computed per child from date of birth and doses already given, rather than being maintained by hand across a register that only exists in one place.
- What about parents who have moved away?
- They are the cohort that lapses most reliably and the one nobody chases, because a family that stops appearing looks identical to a family that has simply not come yet. A recall attempt at least establishes which it is, and often a family that moved within the same city still returns.
- Can it remind about annual flu shots as well?
- Yes. Anything with a computable due date works the same way, whether that is a fixed schedule dose, an annual vaccination, or a review the doctor set at the last visit. The mechanism does not change, only the interval.