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As children approach and enter their teenage years, immunity from the vaccines they received during youth declines, and they become vulnerable to new diseases. To help prepare preteens and teens for healthy adulthood, it’s essential that healthcare providers continue to engage in vaccination conversations and encourage patients to remain updated with their recommended vaccines. In this blog, we offer an overview of vaccines recommended for preteens and teens.
Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes pediatric and adult immunization schedules to serve as a trusted resource for healthcare professionals and patients across the country. To ensure the schedules reflect the current disease landscape, a committee of industry experts reviews current immunization data and updates the recommendations. Utilizing this evidence-backed resource, physicians can determine which vaccinations to recommend to their patients.
For parents and caregivers, it can be overwhelming to navigate a child’s healthcare decisions. Vaccination is an important part of keeping children healthy, and routine childhood immunization is one of the lowest-cost and most effective ways to control disease and extend lifespan. By providing parents with immunization resources, engaging in conversations about recommended vaccines, and encouraging well-child visits, healthcare providers can increase childhood vaccination and strengthen the collective immunity of generations to come.
Immunization is a powerful form of protection against infectious diseases. However, without proper storage conditions, immunity is impacted and vaccine solutions risk hosting bacterial growth and rendering defective. As a reminder of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) protocols, we have accumulated a list of best practices for vaccine storage, handling, and inventory management.
Vaccines are important for patients of all ages, not just children and adolescents. As patients age, their risk of infection and heightened symptom severity may increase, making it important to stay up-to-date with routine vaccinations. We offer an overview of vaccines recommended for patients 50 and over.
The holidays are a time when we gather with friends and family to eat, drink, and be merry. But sadly, these large gatherings are often catalysts for contagious infections to spread. To help prevent illness, reduce symptom severity in patients, and relieve hospital congestion, here are precautions to share with your patients ahead of the holiday season.
Healthcare providers play an important role in educating patients and emphasizing the nation’s longstanding vaccine safety system. When presented with a patient or parent with vaccine hesitancy, providers can explain the rigorous and scientific process that vaccines go through before being approved to address patients’ concerns and strengthen confidence in vaccine services.
Getting vaccinated is an important first line of defense during pregnancy, but it can be difficult to navigate which immunizations are safe for expecting parents. Providers are a trusted voice and can help ease these concerns by talking with their pregnant patients about recommended vaccinations, when to schedule them, and which to avoid.
As COVID-19 vaccines transition to the commercial market, providers face a new set of challenges. In this blog, we discuss the considerations providers should keep in mind, including coordinating with payers for reimbursement, ensuring proper vaccine storage and handling practices, and assessing the demand among their patient population before offering the vaccine.
Protecting patients against vaccine-preventable diseases is critical to healthcare—and the right vaccine buying partner can help. Learn how becoming a member of a physician buying group can be an efficient and economical way for practices to streamline vaccine procurement and enhance their immunization programs.
