Ensuring More Accurate Immunizations Schedules

The Immunizations module includes rules and conditions to guide the system in displaying the proper vaccines to be administered to a patient. These conditions and rules are based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations scheduling recommendations and other governmental guidelines. As new regulations and patient safety considerations occur in various iterations, the schedules and different vaccine dosage rules that the Immunizations module uses are updated.

The system also evaluates the components of a patient’s chart to determine if additional doses of a vaccine are needed, such as the patient age, dates of previous doses administered, and number of doses already completed.

Immunization rules and vaccine information displayed enables you to do the following:

• Determine when a patient should receive an immunization.
• View whether a dose is valid and the reason if it is not valid.
• Make more informed clinical decisions when selecting vaccines for an immunization.
• More easily view the Td and Tdap Vaccines information on the Chart and Recommendation tabs.