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The Florida SHOTS registry is located on a secure server with password-restricted access. We use the latest encryption and firewall safeguards.
Authorization required. All accounts are given access to the system only after we have verified that they have appropriate licensing in the state of Florida.
Implied consent. Immunization records are confidential medical information—however—health-care providers involved in the care of a patient may share their records with the patients’ other providers. Thus, information like immunization records may be shared between medical professionals without express written consent.
For further information about the Florida statutes covering the sharing of patient records, see Section 456.057, F.S. and Section 440.13(4)(c), F.S.
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Regardless of where you live in Florida or how often you change physicians, when your child’s shot records are in the Florida SHOTS database, they become part of a permanent record that’s available to any medical provider in the state.
Make sure your child’s records are in Florida SHOTS and you’ll never again have to worry about where you filed them or which moving box they may be in.
To have your child’s immunization records included in Florida SHOTS, your child’s doctor must enroll.
The enrollment process is free, fast and easy for your child’s physician, and ensures that your child’s immunization records are available whenever and wherever your doctors need them, no matter what.
You have two easy ways to ask your doctor to enroll in Florida SHOTS.
- Download this flyer to take enrollment and benefit information about Florida SHOTS with you to your next doctor’s appointment.
- Please email your doctor’s information to flshots@doh.state.fl.us , including: doctor’s name, practice or organization name, city, county and telephone number (with area code). We will have a Florida SHOTS regional coordinator follow up with them to make sure they are enrolled in and using the registry.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could process blue forms faster by eliminating the wait for a signature on the form? Now you can with the Florida SHOTS™ certified electronic signature 680 form. The electronic signature 680 is now available and accessible to any healthcare provider or school enrolled in Florida SHOTS™. With just a few quick changes to your personnel list, your office can create and certify electronic 680s for your patients.
Benefits of Using Electronically Certified 680s
- Reminder: The doctor’s office creating the form must electronically sign the 680 form in order for it to be accessible for school, daycares and other medical providers.
- Once created, the electronic signature 680 is kept in Florida SHOTS™. It contains all of the regular shot record information as well as certifying office information. (See screenshot: “FLORIDA CERTIFICATION)
- It’s easy to reprint a certified form if parents need an additional copy.
- Certified forms will be accessible directly to schools and other medical providers that are Florida SHOTS™ participants.
- Florida SHOTS™ participants can search for certified electronic signature 680 forms.
- You can search for all forms certified by your organization in a specific time.
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Florida SHOTS is pleased to announce the development of an online Parent Portal (scheduled for fourth quarter 2010), which will allow health-care providers to give their patients direct, free, online access to their own shot records. Patients will be able to log onto the secure server at www.flshots.com and print electronically certified copies of D.H. Form 680 from their home computers. No office visit or call is required. Start electronically certifying your 680s now in preparation for this exciting tool.
Preparing D.H. Form 680s for your patients will be easier than ever before with the Parent Portal; however, patients can only access electronically certified 680s, so it is crucial that you electronically certify every patient’s shot record. continue reading »
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Florida SHOTS helps health-care providers, parents and schools maintain and protect the immunization records that protect Florida’s health
August is recognized as National Immunization Awareness Month, an annual event that promotes the benefits and importance of immunizations across the lifespan. Immunization is the most effective, proven method to prevent certain types of illness. Unfortunately, there are still people in the U.S. who die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases.
The month of August is the perfect time to remind parents, caregivers and health-care providers about the importance of knowing they and their charges are up-to-date on immunizations as they prepare for the return to school, college and the upcoming influenza season.
Florida SHOTS recognizes the importance of keeping immunization records safe, updated and accessible and works with health-care providers, schools and childcare centers throughout the state of Florida to simplify record keeping in a free, statewide online registry.
To learn more about Florida SHOTS enrollment and benefits, please visit www.flshots.com or call (877) 888-SHOT.
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