HPOP: The Health Partner Ordering Portal
During public health emergency responses, health care organizations, federal partners states, territories, and federal agencies and federal pharmacy partners need to be able to rapidly order, distribute, and account for federally supplied medical countermeasures. Since 2020, these organizations have used HPOP to order medical countermeasures for over 180,000 provider sites nationwide. HHS provided these medical countermeasures to recipients at no cost for distribution within communities in need.
HPOP was originally designed to enable state, local, tribal, territory and other private sector health care partners to order, distribute, and track inventory of COVID-19 medical countermeasures. The system later was adapted for the distribution of mpox vaccine and therapeutics. HPOP has been used to track in-field inventory and administration of medical countermeasures through these responses.
In 2023, the HHS Coordination Operations and Response Element (H-CORE) within ASPR coordinated the enhancement of HPOP, incorporating feedback from users and lessons learned during responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the mpox outbreak in the United States.
This enhancement not only improved the system for partners but also prepared the system for use in responses to future health emergency responses. More than 55,000 users of the HPOP system have ordered and distributed tens of millions of treatment courses of COVID-19 therapeutics, nearly one million vials of JYNNEOS vaccine for the prevention of mpox, and thousands of courses of TPOXX for the treatment of mpox.