Benefits for Hospitals
Good continuity of care requires knowing what vaccinations a child has received. Florida SHOTS™ offers many benefits to participating hospitals:
- Provides additional information with regard to differential diagnoses for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs)
- Improves quality of care and risk management by allowing access to a patient’s immunization record during hospital visits
- Facilitates the implementation of standing orders for vaccination by allowing the capability to check immunization status (e.g., standing order for influenza vaccine during influenza season; standing order for Td vaccination for ER patients with deep or dirty wounds; standing order for pneumococcal vaccination)
- Facilitates diagnoses of rash illness by vaccination status check
- Facilitates emergency management for natural or other disasters by making vaccination records available for triage (e.g., bioterrorist event involving a vaccine-preventable disease)
