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MrsAJL
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ImmTrac?
MrsAJL
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When DS was born, some of the paper work I filled out included authorization to have his immunization records tracked in the ImmTrac immunization registry. We signed up for it.
I was wondering if anyone else was asked about it when they had DC. Also, from the healthcare provider perspective, I was wondering if any of our resident medical gals have used it to retrieve immunization info on a patient.
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Re: ImmTrac?
As an ER nurse I have no knowledge of how to access ImmTrac, but in general it isn't of much use to us. We only ask if your kid is fully vaccinated through their age or they aren't - either cuz you're choosing an alternate schedule or you're somehow ignorant infants need to see a doctor after the day they're born. Yes, there are those people despite hospitals best efforts at maternity discharge.
Anyway, the reason it doesn't matter "much" is because most of what we see is common everyday illnesses or minor injury. Neither is a concern for immunizations except for tetnus but all you have to tell the doctor is "they're current through their 2 year shots" and our doctors have the schedule at hand and know if little Tommy needs a tetnus booster for having run one of his widdle fingers through the opening of a paper shredder ... hey, it happens. Once in a blue moon we'll get a measles or rubella in a selectively immunized child. Chicken pox is still common too but we've seen it in kids who have had the shots for that so who knows.
As far as needing reminders, every time I leave the pedi they say "Next visit will be at X months and then she'll get XYZ" and we schedule the next visit before we leave. I feel like reminders are more for clinic based patients who maybe don't recieve the same one-on-one "same doctor most everytime" care that many of us have the priviledge of with our pediatricians.
I don't think it's a bad service or idea, just not one I personally feel the need to have. Life or death situation at work, your child's immunization status won't mean a damn thing! That they're allergic to peanuts or latex might be something you'd want to tell us
Thanks for your input, everyone! I was asking because someone I'm close to who works with that program was asking me if I knew other moms who were familiar with ImmTrac. I'm a proponent of it and think it's extremely beneficial.
From the perspective of the ED, you're right. It would be far more helpful to know if your patient was allergic to certain meds, or foods, or latex.
Do you know if there is a push to electronically centralize
medical records?
Howecer ImmTrac is really designed for tracking who is getting vaccinated. As a benefit, this information being centrally maintained is available to authorized stakeholders, i.e. hospitals, physicians, schools, etc. The idea behind the system is to get a snap shot at any one point in time about the overall vaccination levels of children in Texas. Additionally, TXDSHS is hoping to expand reporting in ImmTrac to all vaccines, and not just to CDC recommended or state mandated vaccines.