Imunis - Boosting the Shift from Treatment to Prevention

High vaccination uptake is critical not only for individual and community health, but for the resilience of our healthcare system as a whole.  

UKHSA estimates show that last winter’s flu vaccination programme prevented up to 120,000 hospital admissions, which is equivalent to preventing the entire burden of stroke admissions in England. Yet only 40% of people in the eligible clinical risk groups under 65 received their flu vaccination last year. Many more hospitalisations could be avoided if we better use prevention that we already have at our disposal.  The UKHSA highlights lack of eligibility awareness as one of the barriers to flu vaccine uptake. 

A Contributary Problem: Fragmented, Non-Standard Data 

Despite the critical importance of vaccination, which protects against many diseases over and above flu, the system used to record, track, interpret and communicate health information is sub-optimal. This means a patient, and their health provider, may be unaware of their eligibility for a particular vaccine. Root causes include the following:

• Disjointed Records: Patient data is often scattered across multiple, non-integrated systems, creating a fragmented record and a lack of a single, holistic view of a patient’s health history. This fragmented system is further strained when patients are referred across NHS services, move between public and private healthcare providers, or relocate geographically. Missing or inaccurate information leads to unnecessary over-vaccination, missed vaccination, and missed reminders, as the data needed for clinical decision-making and reminder automations appears incomplete. 

• The Data Standardisation Gap: While SNOMED-CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) and FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) for data exchange are crucial steps that enable health data to flow through the system with the patient, a significant portion of records (historical AND new) still do not conform to a machine-readable standard. This lack of standardised data prevents joining up of the record, automated interpretation of a patient's history, and contributes to medical error risk. 

• Vaccination Guidelines Change Frequently: New vaccines, changing global health risks, budgets and research all influence a country’s or area’s vaccination recommendations. The UK updates its guidelines twice per year, which can mean frequent updates to eligibility criteria that often can vary by location. Responding to this complex landscape with poorly integrated systems can create an error-prone burden for clinical teams, and in some cases, patients can fall through the cracks. 

A single, digital, and standardised record is a necessary baseline for accuracy and efficient care. It ensures a machine can read and interpret the information, and safe, digital services can be designed that are efficient, personalised and enable patients to proactively look after their health and the health of those they care for. 

The Solution: Imunis – Intelligent Digital Vaccination Platform

Imunis was founded by a patient facing these very challenges - she experienced navigating personal records which were illegible and spread over multiple sources; supporting family members in high-risk categories who didn’t receive eligibility reminders and were under the care of clinicians who are unaware of their eligibility. So an inter-disciplinary team of health providers, patients and technologists came together to create a solution to address these challenges for both patients and healthcare teams.

Imunis is designed to support patients and clinicians alike to monitor vaccination adherence. Through a patient app and clinical workspace, it connects with pre-existing medical record systems to bring together relevant vaccination history into a single, digital record. By consolidating the fragmented vaccination record, it provides a live vaccination status, automated reminders and educational information.

Health providers can access a full vaccine-specific patient history, quickly ascertain the patient vaccination status, and seamlessly transfer high-accuracy digital records to the patient app, safe in the knowledge that all data is interoperable.  

Key features include:

• Data Standardisation: Transformation of large volumes of non-standard data into the required format with little to no clinician downtime, allowing for easy transfer of information between public and private healthcare providers. The Imunis Data Model combines interoperable standards with patient-interpretable terminology, using plain English terminology to help patients read and understand their medical records without having to interpret medical jargon or abbreviations

• Records Digitisation Service: An expert service to capture and standardise historical records held by the patient that may not be accessible in digital format. An Imunis’ study demonstrated an unacceptable error rate when patients attempt to record their vaccine history, and many patients face significant barriers in adding information to their GP health record. 

• Automated Clinical Intelligence: Auto-calculation of a patient’s vaccination status against the latest official guidelines, with associated prompts for missing or overdue vaccinations.

• Travel Vaccine Planner: An frequently-updated itinerary-driven vaccine health guide based on official sources (WHO/international consulates and global outbreak data). 

The platform is live in the Hong Kong private sector and as part of HPV school vaccination programmes, where an initial pilot of over 1000 patients demonstrated a reduction in medical recording errors to almost zero, significant increase in records completeness, and an increase in vaccination rates of up to 19%, with minimal healthcare professional intervention. By automating administrative and interpretation work, Imunis supports informed, preventative decision-making, which in an era of mis-information, has never been more vital.

UK Launch

The Imunis platform is now available in the UK, following participation in the prestigious DigitalHealth.London Launchpad programme. 

• Initial Adoption: Imunis launches this week with Central Health London, one of London’s premier private clinics offering routine, seasonal and travel vaccinations. Patients enrolled on the Imunis platform will receive digital records for vaccinations administered at Central Health London direct to their Imunis account, and have access to the Imunis Records Digitisation Service, facilitating digitisation of a single, lifetime vaccination record. Parents and carers are able to manage their dependant’s records within a secure account, seamlessly transferring control to young people in line with GDPR, avoiding loss of access to records & encouraging engagement in preventative health from a young age. The collaboration provides a value-add service to patients and clinical teams, while ensuring patient data is accurate and interoperable.

  
  

• Expansion: In early 2026, Imunis will integrate with the Patients Know Best (PKB) platform, an alumnus of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator and the first single patient record platform to be integrated into the NHS App, hosting millions of NHS records. PKB users will be able to store NHS vaccination records in the Imunis app, providing them with the best display and understanding of their vaccination status. This collaboration will facilitate a more complete and accurate vaccination record for PKB customers and demonstrate Imunis’ ability to enrich the core NHS vaccination record.  

  
  

By combining clinical rigour with technological innovation, Imunis has the ability to deliver high-quality, standardised, and dynamic immunisation record management in the UK. This aligns with national objectives around prevention and digital health, and strengthens its defences against vaccine-preventable disease. 

Contact/For More Information

• If you’re part of an NHS team working on immunisation, or in private healthcare offering vaccination services, we’d welcome the opportunity to explore potential pilot opportunities. 

  
  

• If you’re in digital health or medical record systems, direct-to-patient diagnostics, the pharmaceutical industry, a health insurer offering innovative digital solutions, or an NGO supporting the delivery of vaccination programmes, we’d welcome the opportunity to explore potential collaboration opportunities. 

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