| Health Care Providers |
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For providers that give immunizations, participation in LINK can increase the quality of care provided to your patients as well as
improve the workflow of your office. Benefits for providers include:
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- Immediate access to a client's updated immunization record.
- Automated forecasting of needed immunizations at each visit based on current ACIP/AAP recommendations
- Tracking of adverse events and contraindications for each client to prevent complications.
- Creation of reminder and recall lists and/or postcards.
- Automated vaccine inventory management.
- Ability to create and print updated yellow cards.
- Reduced paperwork and time needed to search for charts and to calculate immunizations needed at each visit.
- Decreased vaccine wastage due to over-immunization.
- Ability to identify clients affected by a vaccine recall.
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| Schools, Daycare, and Camp Facilities |
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Schools, daycare and camp programs require up-to-date immunizations for enrollment. LINK makes it easy for staff at these locations to:
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- Check the immunization status of children seeking to enroll.
- Inform parents as to which immunizations are needed, thus reducing the likelihood that a child is delayed or declined from enrolling.
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| WIC, Foster Care, and CalWORKs Programs |
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WIC and Foster Care programs review the immunization records of children in their programs and provide education and referral
to parents/guardians for those children who are not up-to-date. The CalWORKs Program requires children be up-to-date in order for
parents to be eligible to participate in their program. LINK makes it easy for staff at these locations to:
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- Check the immunization status of children in their program.
- Inform parents/guardians as to which immunizations are needed, so that their children can be up-to-date on their
immunizations and meet any immunization requirements that are needed to participate in these programs.
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| Health Plans |
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Health Plans monitor the immunization services of their participating doctors, provide education and support to improve doctors'
immunization services, and provide reimbursement to doctors for the immunizations they give to patients. LINK helps Health Plans by:
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- Helping to facilitate billing and reimbursement to providers for the immunizations they give.
- Helping health plans calculate the immunization coverage rate for patients enrolled in their health plan, so that they can provide education and support to their doctors to improve their services.
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| State and County Health Departments |
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Local and State health departments are responsible for assessing the immunization status of communities, providing
immunization services, and providing support to local doctors and clinics who give immunizations. LINK helps public health
departments:
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- Identify local communities in need of immunization services.
- Provide education and services to these communities
- Provide vaccine and support to local doctors and clinics.
- Introduce new vaccines or changes in the recommended vaccine schedule to ensure that providers follow the most up-to-date recommendations.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of immunization services and education programs.
- Monitor the delivery of immunizations in the community and determine coverage levels.
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