Florida SHOTS™: Keeping SHOTS in Check

Seeing double? When you search for a patient in Florida SHOTS do you find two or more records? Don’t despair over which is the right one.

First, make sure that both records belong to the same patient. There are more than 100 million shots for nearly nine million patient records in Florida SHOTS and many people have similarly spelled names. Verify that the address, parents, and vaccination records mirror or closely resemble either each other or what you have in your charts.

Once you have determined that the records are indeed duplicates and not for two different patients, contact the Florida SHOTS help desk at 877-888-SHOT and our staff will help merge the records without losing vital shot information.

Florida SHOTS is now offering parents a way to print their children’s Certificates of Immunization (DH Form 680s) from their home computers. With one click in Florida SHOTS, your office can create a PIN that will be attached to a certified (e-signed) Form 680. Each patient PIN is unique, system-generated, and different than the office login to the registry and allows parents to access a PDF of their child’s Certified 680 to print or save a copy of the form. The form is legal and valid in the state of Florida for admittance to schools and daycare facilities, and parents can print it on standard white paper.

Florida SHOTS helps relieve back-to-school stress for parents in the following ways:

• Consolidates all immunization records for any vaccinations that a child has received from multiple healthcare providers
• Provides an accurate, official copy of a child’s immunization history to enrolled healthcare providers, schools and childcare centers
• Allows access to electronically certified DH 680s at www.flshots.com once healthcare providers give parents the system-generated PIN and ID for secure login

For more information about setting up parent access, see the Setting Up Patient Shot Record Retrieval or Configurar la Recuperación del Registro de Inmunizatión del Paciente guides. You can also visit the parent login page.