Florida SHOTS is conducting its annual survey, which is open to all immunization providers through May 1, 2018. The subject of this year’s survey is Florida SHOTS Training.

Take the survey here.

When it comes to vaccines, fear can be strong but the facts are more powerful.

The fact is that every year 31,000 women and men are diagnosed with cancer caused by HPV infection, yet most of these cancers could be prevented by HPV vaccination.

The HPV vaccine is a safe and easy way to protect against these cancers and is most effective if given at the recommended age of 11 or 12. Help overcome hesitations about the vaccine by strongly recommending it to parents of preteen and teen patients on the same day and in the same way you recommend Tdap and meningococcal vaccines.

Use Florida SHOTS Reminder/Recall to help keep your patients on track to complete the HPV series and increase protection.

We are offering live training sessions throughout the month of April covering several useful reports available within Florida SHOTS. These include the Vaccine Utilization Report, which shows vaccines administered within a specified date range, the Patient Status Report, which lists all patients who have your organization as the Current Immunization Provider (CIP), and Reminder/Recall for increasing vaccine coverage among your patients. Sign up today!

Click HERE to view the schedule and register!

Reminder/recall is one of the many tools in Florida SHOTS that helps you boost immunization levels in your practice. Your office can create lists of patients who are due or overdue for immunizations and even create and print mailing labels. Keep track of your patients’ shots and never miss an opportunity to vaccinate! For step-by-step instructions on how to run a reminder/recall report in your office, check out our updated Reminder/Recall guide. Also available in Spanish.

A new tool is now available in Florida SHOTS to help data upload participants monitor and track uploads to prevent errors and rejections. Users with access to the “System Transaction” menu will see the new “Upload Data Quality Report.” This report will allow users to select a date range and generate a spreadsheet with all the errors and warnings from that time period. The “Upload Data Quality Report” is an easy-to-use option to review data quality and will help practices quickly identify any problems and make the necessary corrections.

This report will be covered in our monthly Data Quality Reports live webinar.  Click HERE to register!

Our Florida SHOTS VFC Annual Enrollment guide will take you step-by-step through how to make edits to your account and submit your re-enrollment. Only the VFC primary contact, secondary contact, or the enrollee in your office will have access to complete the re-enrollment. When your re-enrollment is due within the next 60 days, you’ll see a notification in your “Task List.”

Remember, all primary and secondary contacts and enrollees must complete the required 2018 VFC Annual Provider Staff Training HERE. Don’t forget to print your certificate and complete the survey at the end of the training!