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Introduction

Use PowerSchool SMS to monitor, manage, and report on data concerning students’ physical and emotional health. Track a student’s health condition and medication prescribed, immunization and examination status, and pregnancy, vision, hearing, dental, and social/emotional screenings.

You can define rules for immunizations. The rules can be based on the immunization type, the student's age, and the number of doses required. Enter exceptions to standard dose rules, define the number of days between doses for each immunization, and define the number of days for dose exemptions so that PowerSchool SMS automatically sets the exemption expiry date. You can also specify the number of days before a student is of age that an immunization dose can be given and still be counted as valid.

In addition, you can set up compliance rules for students for health examinations. PowerSchool SMS checks the students’ birthdates, current age, or grade level to determine which examinations the student should receive.

Information for Users of Health in Pre-6.7 Versions

Following is information about the changes between pre- and post- 6.7 versions of PowerSchool SMS.

What Happens at Installation

When you install PowerSchool SMS 6.7, all student statuses (i.e., Compliant or Not Compliant) are cleared. Existing immunization dose information is maintained and, after you create your new immunization and examination rules using the new rule structure, all students are re‑evaluated against the new structure and assigned a new status.

Nightly Task Changes

The nightly task that calculates compliance is modified to calculate only:

When a change occurs (e.g., if a student’s age changes).

When the next dose due date for a dose has passed.

If a rule is changed.

Report Change

With the new Health Tracking design, the Immunization Requirements Detail Report is obsolete and is removed from the reports package

Updated Setup Lists for Health Tracking

Health Tracking Setup Lists have been updated for PowerSchool SMS 6.7 and higher as follows:

Table 74: Setup Lists

Setup List prior to 6.7	is now
Health Immunization Dose Action and Health Immunization Exemption Note: If you have different list items in each of these Setup Lists, you will need to add each list item manually to the new setup list.	Health Immunization Exemptions Only one setup list is required, as you can now only enter exemptions at the immunization level, not the dose level. Note: The pre-6.7 version of this setup list contained two additional list items: = Administered = Incorrectly Administered In PowerSchool SMS 6.7, these list items are not in this setup list and you do not need to add them as they are not applicable in version 6.7.
Health Immunization Modification Reason	Health Dose Due Date Override Reason Note: As part of the system conversion, setup list items are copied from the previous to the new setup list, then the previous list items are deleted.
Health Immunization Non-Scheduled Immunization Type	Health Immunization Name
Immunization Dose Modification	removed
Immunization Action	removed
Immunization Dose Action	removed
Immunization Dose Name	removed

For information about working with Setup Lists, see Working with Setup Lists [>>].

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