About TravelRx

TravelRx is a free reference tool built for New Zealand GPs and other clinicians to streamline travel health consultations.

The idea came from a straightforward clinical problem: during a travel consult, cross-referencing CDC and TravelHealthPro pages individually for a patient visiting several countries is time-consuming and easy to miss things. TravelRx consolidates that workflow – enter the destinations, see the relevant vaccines and alerts side by side, record what the patient already has, and generate a summary note ready to paste into your patient management system.

NZ-specific information on Pharmac-funded vaccines and vaccine validity timeframes is included, sourced from the NZ Immunisation Handbook, IMAC NZ, and CDC/WHO guidance. All clinical decisions remain with the treating clinician – TravelRx is a reference tool, not a decision engine. Links to source pages are provided throughout so you can verify directly.

Built by Dr Nisal using AI tools, GP Registrar, Christchurch NZ. If you find it useful or have feedback, let me know.

TravelRx does not use AI live, and AI never sees any patient information – it has no access to anything you enter on this site beyond a destination name. The two roles AI plays are entirely separate from your use of the tool:

In the background, regularly: a script reads the current public CDC and TravelHealthPro pages for each country and uses AI to read and structure that text into a consistent format – vaccines, malaria risk, alerts – which is then stored in a database. This happens on its own schedule, independent of anyone using the site.

When you use the site: nothing AI-related happens at all. Searching a destination simply looks up the already-structured result from that database – the same as searching any normal website. It is fast specifically because there is no AI involved at the point of use.

1. Search and add each destination on the patient's itinerary using the search box on the home page.

2. Click Get Recommendations to load vaccine, malaria, and health alert data for those destinations.

3. Click on any country panel to expand it and see health alerts, malaria risk, and other precautions specific to that destination.

4. Click the CDC or THP buttons next to a country – shown both in the destination panels and at the top of the matrix – to open that country's official source page in a new tab, so you can verify the information directly at the source.

5. In the matrix below, click a vaccine or malaria row to expand details – validity duration, NZ funding status, NZ schedule history, and any situational notes.

6. For each row, click Needed, Up to date, or Not required based on the patient's history.

7. Click Generate Clinical Note Summary to produce a structured summary you can edit and copy directly into your patient records.

8. Use Expand all / Collapse all and the freeze-header checkbox above the matrix to make scrolling through a long itinerary easier.