What Benefits Can Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Expect to Receive from Using Immunization Information Systems?

Immunization information systems can offer many benefits to Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (PNPs).  As a PNP, you are often in charge of administering children's immunizations for your office practice.  This includes overseeing the burdensome paperwork and other administrative duties resulting from the complexity of the recommended childhood immunization schedule.  Using an IIS will help you to be more efficient by streamlining the immunization administration process, saving you time and your practice money.  Immunization Information Systems can:

Consolidate Your Patients' Immunization Records - IIS combine immunization information from different sources (e.g., previous providers) into a single record and provide official immunization records for school, day care and camp entry requirements with the click of a button.

Automatically Calculate Immunizations Needed - IIS can instantly calculate which vaccines need to be given to your patient in accordance with the latest ACIP vaccine recommendations and intervals.

Reduce Time Spent Calling Other Providers and Receiving Calls- IIS help you to avoid calling other providers in order to obtain your patients' immunization histories.  Lists can also be generated to expedite school enrollment and eliminate individual calls from school personnel.

Easily Send out Reminders and Recalls to Your Patients- IIS can automatically generate reminder and recall postcards and/or mailing labels to send out to parents to remind them when their child's immunizations are due or have been missed.  Many can also generate automated phone calls.

IIS also:

• Track administered vaccines to ensure proper reimbursement
• Increase immunization data quality and completeness
• Generate timely immunization reports (e.g. HEDIS, CASA and other quality improvement initiatives)
• Automate vaccine inventory, expediting ordering procedures
• Allow expeditious tracking of vaccines in case of vaccine shortages and during manufacturer recalls
• Automatically flag high-risk patients for timely annual influenza vaccination
• Often have the capacity to integrate with other systems (e.g., newborn screening, WIC, office billing systems and electronic medical records)




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