Once your clinic completes the onboarding process, your clinic will be electronically reporting vaccines ‘administered’ to CT WiZ as required by state law. Upon reporting to CT WiZ, clinics provide or post the CT WiZ notice to patients. As a reminder, per state law, enrollment into CT WiZ is automatic. Individuals only provide consent if they choose to opt out by sending a written request to the Connecticut Department of Public Health, at which time their record will no longer be available in the CT WiZ. Fortunately, only <1% opt out annually. For more information about CT WiZ, please visit CT WiZ Training.
It is highly recommended to also report the ‘historical’ vaccinations, so patients have complete and accurate records in CT WiZ. Providers can report ‘legacy’ data imports which are ‘historical’ vaccination records after the clinic’s ‘go-live’ date of their electronic health record (EHR) interface with CT WiZ. CT DPH will work with your clinic on the legacy data import process.
Reporting the complete vaccination records will support:
- providers when querying vaccination records as patients transfer into their clinic, when running reports such as reminder/recall, and when viewing the recommender of which vaccines are due/overdue,
- public health to generate coverage analytics, and
- patients to access their complete and accurate records from the secure CT WiZ Public Portal.
Clinics work with our CT WiZ staff during their EHR onboarding process on how to import legacy data. For additional support, please submit a helpdesk ticket and select Immunizations (CT WiZ) – EHR Data Exchange – Issues with existing HL7 interface with CT WiZ.