A.I. Med

I just received a response from Acrendo Software.

1. Describe how your software handles vaccinations.

Yes, with active and passive for children 0-18 via CDC (when opening a chart, and during searches for ALL patients meeting age)

2. Can your software recommend when vaccinations are due for a given patient record?

Yes, based on age, and past injections via CDC chart

3. Has your software ever connected with or submitted data to an immunization registry? If so, please describe.

Yes, TX, FL, CA, WA via upload file for registry.

I asked for more clarification and received the following responses:

1. What format do you support for sending data to registries? Are you sending flat-file or HL7?

Flat tab separated file

2. I know that Texas does not support HL7, and that Washington supports both HL7 and flat-file. California has several registries. Do you submit to one or more of their regional registries?

We submit the same file with all the data, they take what they can use

3. As for you vaccination recommendations, do you support the CDC catch-up schedules as well?

We have the catch up sheet, but it is not scanned when we do the standard 0-18yrs. They can view the sheet on screen and print it only.

While the national standard is to submit data via HL7, submitting data in a flat-file format is accepted by most registries.