Benefits for Schools

Shots are required by law for children in attendance at public and private schools, preschools, child-care facilities, and Head Start programs. Nearly every place that provides care for a child outside the home requires shots, or a religious or medical exemption, to stay enrolled. That’s a lot of records to keep up with. Florida SHOTS™ can simplify record keeping by:

  • Providing free, immediate, secure access to immunization documentation
  • Being an authoritative source that provides the highest degree of reliability
  • Allowing health-care providers to create a system-certified electronic 680, which is kept in Florida SHOTS where it is accessible directly to schools, licensed child-care centers and other medical providers that are Florida SHOTS users
  • Enabling staff to better manage workloads during peak enrollment periods
  • Lowering the administrative cost of maintaining records
  • Offering rapid access to a child’s immunization status and DH 680 Form
  • Enabling staff to check the accuracy of hand-written DH 680 Forms and verify with Florida SHOTS records
  • Enabling staff to verify religious exemption status for a student to facilitate exclusion from school in the event of an outbreak
  • Providing statewide access to a child’s immunization record as they move between school districts
  • Facilitating school health clinic data entry and accuracy of vaccination