In general, vaccine records throughout medicine are sadly lacking. As in other parts of the field, there are way too many people doing it way too many ways. It's sad. We have IMPAACT in Maine, and if you have an extra person and are willing to pay $10.00 an hour of him or her to enter old vaccine entries or even knew, then it's great. Not to mention it isn't required.
I love trying to read the shot records from other offices especiaally after it's been faxed. I have no idea why so many entries have to go into the record. Then, we have to fill out a form for Mainecare inclusion as well as informed consent and giving out sheets to educate the parents about the vaccine.
My BIGGEST pet peeve of all time is why vaccines are still recorded as dates. Sure, you need the date, but can't a computer calculate that age? I wold much rather see DTaP given at 2 months and 4 months on a nine month old and realize in less than a second they are behind. Please, we already know AC can do this.
Roy, we do the same thing with Prevar and Polio on the left and Hib and DTaP on the right, etc.
Luckily, my programmer and I on working on our newest software program: Vaccine and Immunization Program Entry Record or VIPER. It should be out in Beta at the end of September. My prediction: I won't be able to give it away. Maybe if I charge $89.00, our server couldn't handle the downloads <G>
