Florida SHOTS™: Keeping SHOTS in Check

The DH 680 form can now be printed on white or blue paper. Schools and childcare centers should accept the DH 680 form if printed on white paper. Forms may be completed by hand or printed from the Florida State Health Online Tracking System (Florida SHOTS).

View the Florida Department of Health’s official notice about these DH 680 form changes as well as guidelines to determine the validity of a DH 680 form.

Less than half of the teen population get their meningococcal vaccines and even fewer adolescents complete their HPV series. Vaccinate all your teen patients and safeguard their records in Florida SHOTS.

From birth through adulthood, Florida SHOTS stores comprehensive immunization histories.

Only vaccines that are required by Florida law are recorded on a D.H. Form 680. If you would like to see, or give your patients, a complete listing of all of the vaccines they have received, you can print the Florida SHOTS “Immunization History Form,” which will reflect non-required shots such as hepatitis A or HPV vaccine.

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.

For access to the latest from your Florida SHOTS team, check out the current issue of the SHOTS Tracker, which is now available online.

In this issue we’re covering how Florida SHOTS is getting national attention, helping Total MD software users utilize data upload, highlighting all our data exchange partners and welcoming one of our newest practices.

SHOTS Tracker – Volume 6, Issue 2 [English]

SHOTS Tracker – Volume 6, Issue 2 [Spanish]