Florida SHOTS™: Keeping SHOTS in Check

Getting parents to deliver a properly documented DH680 Certificate of Immunization (blue card) can be a difficult and time-consuming process for educators. Florida SHOTS provides easy access for educators to get those electronically certified blue cards for their files.

If a student’s doctor uses the Florida SHOTS system to maintain and electronically certify their patients’ immunization records and the education facility has a Florida SHOTS account as well, educators can simply print out the electronically certified 680 form to add to their files. The unique identifier on the blue card is as official as a signature. Keep in mind that other required forms and blue cards that are not electronically certified still require a signature.

Encourage your local health care providers to participate in Florida SHOTS and issue electronically signed/certified DH680 forms.

There you are ready to print out a patient’s blue card (Form 680), but where is the doctor’s signature for electronic certification? When a Florida SHOTS account is activated, the doctor is often signed up as a system user so that his or her name appears as a selection for a certified 680 electronic signature. But in reality, the doctor might not use the system at all. This can lead to expired passwords and inactive accounts for the following reasons. Because of security protocols, the password for a user must be reset every 30 days and if that user does not log on to the Florida SHOTS system within 60 days of the password expiration, the User ID becomes inactive. Since the doctor never logs on this is when the doctor’s name disappears from the drop down menu for electronic certification.

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