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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.15 - Enforcement

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(a) A physician who
				fails to report pursuant to the requirements of this subchapter shall be subject to
				a fine as set forth at
				26:4-129 and 130, or 26:1A-10.
1. The Department may issue a written notification
				of this failure and a warning to comply prior to initiating any other enforcement
				action.
2. The Department may also
				report the physician's failure to comply with the provisions of this subchapter to
				the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, which may initiate disciplinary actions
				as set forth at
				13:35-6.24.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Appendix A

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Communicable Disease Service New Jersey Department of Health and
				  Senior Services
Electronic Laboratory Reporting Technical Manual
May 2007
Table of Contents
1.
				Introduction
2. Acceptable File Formats
2.1 HL 7 File format
2.1.1 HL 7 2.5
2.1.2 HL 7 2.3
2.2. XML Schema
2.2.1 File format
2.2.2 Sample Schema
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Appendix B

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Quarantine and Isolation - Model Rules for Local Boards of
				  Health
1.1
Applicability
The provisions of the model rules are applicable in jurisdictions
				  in which the local board of health has adopted the model rules by reference in
				  accordance with New Jersey law, but no local board of health is required to adopt
				  the model rules.
1.2
Definitions
"Board" means [insert the name of the county, municipal or
				  regional board].
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
				  Services.
"Isolation" means the physical separation and confinement of an
				  individual or groups of individuals who are infected or reasonably believed to be
				  infected, based on signs, symptoms or laboratory analysis, with a contagious or
				  possibly contagious disease from non-isolated individuals, to prevent or limit the
				  transmission of the disease to non-isolated individuals.
"Quarantinable disease" means any communicable disease which
				  presents a risk of serious harm to public health and which may require isolation or
				  quarantine to prevent its spread.
1. The
				Department's lists of reportable communicable diseases are set forth at
				8:57-1.5.
"Quarantine" means the physical separation and confinement of an
				  individual or groups of individuals, who are or may have been exposed to a
				  communicable or possibly communicable disease and who do not show signs or symptoms
				  of a communicable disease, from unexposed individuals, to prevent or limit the
				  transmission of the disease to unexposed individuals.
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Section 8:57-2.6 - Reserved

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Section 8:57-2.7 - Reserved

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Section 8:57-2.8 - Reserved

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Section 8:57-2.11 - Reserved

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix A

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix B

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix C

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix D

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix E

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix F

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 2 - Reserved › Appendix G

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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.1 - Purpose and scope

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(a) The purpose of this
				subchapter is to:
1. Implement
				26:4-131 et seq. (
				P.L.
				2004, c. 138 ), the
				Statewide Immunization Registry Act, which designates and authorizes the New Jersey
				Immunization Information System (NJIIS) as the official Statewide immunization
				registry operated by the Department as the single repository of immunization records
				and a repository of preventive health screening records;
2. Set forth standards for maintaining
				confidentiality; and
3. Set forth
				standards for the establishment, use, and maintenance of the NJIIS.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.2 - Incorporated documents

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(a) To further the
				purposes of 26:4-131 et seq. and this subchapter,
				the Department incorporates by reference, as amended and supplemented, the following
				documents in this subchapter:
1. The 2001
				Immunization Registry Minimum Functional Standards (hereinafter "Functional
				Standards"), which are available through the Centers for Disease Control and
				Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Data
				Management Division, Systems Development Branch, Registry Support Team, Immunization
				Registry Clearinghouse, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, MailStop E-62, Atlanta, GA 30333,
				telephone (800) 799-7062 or (404) 639-8570 or available online at
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/stds/min-funct-std-2001.htm
;
2. The Implementation Guide for Immunization Data
				Transactions using Version 2.3.1 of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Standard Protocol
				(June 2006) (hereinafter "Implementation Guide for Immunization Data Transactions"),
				which is available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National
				Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, NIP Public Inquiries Mailstop
				E-05, 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, telephone (800) 232-4636 or (404)
				639-8245, or available online at
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/stds/downloads/hl7guide.pdf
;
3. The Recommended Immunization Schedules for
				Persons Aged 0 - 18 Years - United States, 2008 created through the collaboration of
				the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Academy of
				Pediatrics, which is available through a written request to the VPDP mailing address
				or online at
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/default.htm
;
4. The Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric
				Health Care (RE9535) commonly known as "the periodicity schedule," developed by the
				American Academy of Pediatrics and, which is available through the American Academy
				of Pediatrics, AAP Policy, 141 Northwest Point Blvd, Elk Grove Village, IL
				60007-1098 or online at
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics%3b105/3/645
;
				and
5. The Immunization Registry
				Certification: Recommendation of the National Immunization Program's Technical
				Working Group (TWG) (June 4, 2002) (hereinafter "IRC"), which is available through
				the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and
				Respiratory Diseases, Data Management Division, Systems Development Branch, Registry
				Support Team, Immunization Registry Clearinghouse, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mail Stop
				E-62, Atlanta, GA 30333, telephone (800) 799-7062 or (404) 639-8570 or available
				online at
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/stds/downloads/certif_rec.pdf
.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.4 - Confidentiality

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(a) The Department shall
				keep confidential all NJIIS information that individually identifies a registrant.
1. The Department shall use information contained
				in the NJIIS for NJIIS purposes set forth in
				26:4-131 et seq. and this subchapter,
				including the identification of areas with low immunization coverage rates or public
				health planning activities and as such, may release aggregate, statistical or
				summary data or information in which registrants are not, and cannot be,
				identified;
2. Providers furnishing
				services, health care payors, and State or local health officers or agencies may
				exchange information contained in the NJIIS for purposes directly connected to the
				administration of the NJIIS;
3. The
				Department may release NJIIS information that individually identifies a registrant
				or an NJIIS site to State or Federal law enforcement agencies or agencies having
				investigatory authority, in cooperation with investigations of fraud or abuse, or as
				required for public health purposes; and
4. The Department may transmit, share or exchange
				information contained in the NJIIS with other out-of-State regional or state
				immunization registries as set forth at
				8:57-3.19(c).
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(a) The Department's
				Vaccine Preventable Disease Program is responsible for the administration of the
				NJIIS.
1. The VPDP shall ensure that the NJIIS
				conforms to the 12 technical functional standards for immunization registries as
				outlined in the 2001 Immunization Registry Minimum Functional Standards.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.6 - Eligibility to become an authorized user

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(a) The following
				persons and entities are eligible to become authorized users:
1. Health care providers, primary health care
				providers, child care centers, schools, colleges, universities, health benefits
				plans, billing and practice management vendors, State public health or State social
				services programs, local health agencies, the Department and designated agents
				thereof.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.7 - Authorized user enrollment requirements

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(a) To enroll as an
				NJIIS authorized user, an applicant shall:
1.
				Agree to use the NJIIS to further the purposes of promoting public health or
				providing patient care;
2. Submit a
				completed User Confidentiality Agreement, available at subchapter Appendix C, to the
				local MCHC office; and
3. Complete the
				mandatory NJIIS training as set forth at
				8:57-3.8(g).
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(a) The administrator of
				any prospective eligible entity wishing to enroll as an NJIIS site and as an
				authorized user shall submit to the local MCHC office, via mail, facsimile or
				electronic submission, an application package consisting of:
1. A statement of interest in enrolling in the
				NJIIS;
2. A completed Enrollment Request
				for New Site form, available at subchapter Appendix A; and
3. An original User Confidentiality Agreement,
				available at subchapter Appendix C, signed and dated by the responsible
				person.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.9 - Authorized user access to information

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(a) Authorized users
				shall have access to the NJIIS through a web-enabled application after completing
				the enrollment process set forth at
				8:57-3.8.
(b) An authorized user will have access to a
				registrant's NJIIS information limited to the level of access for which the
				authorized user was approved by the MCHC pursuant to
				8:57-3.8(b).
(c) Authorized users shall only access information
				on a registrant contained in the NJIIS under the following circumstances:
1. Health care providers and primary health care
				providers shall only access information on a registrant whom they have claimed in
				the NJIIS as their patient and/or to whom they are currently providing health care
				services;
2. Child care centers,
				schools, colleges, and universities shall only access immunization information on a
				registrant that they have enrolled or are in the process of enrolling into their
				institutions;
3. Health benefits plans
				shall only access information on a registrant that they have enrolled as a member or
				beneficiary of their health coverage plan or as set forth at
				8:57-3.4(c);
4. Billing and practice management vendors shall
				only access information on a registrant who is the subject of the billing or
				practice management function the vendor is performing;
5. State public health programs, State or county
				social services agencies and programs, the collaborating public health programs, NJ
				Medicaid Program and NJ FamilyCare Program, shall only access information on a
				registrant who is enrolled in their specific State public health or State social
				services agency or program; and
6. Local
				health officers and agencies or their designees shall only access information on a
				registrant who resides within the respective local health jurisdiction or authorized
				service area for performing and fulfilling their public health functions as they
				relate to the NJIIS.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.10 - Authorized user withdrawal

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(a) Any administrator or
				site administrator may withdraw or change an authorized user's access to the NJIIS
				at any time by submitting a completed Request for Change of User Security
				Authorization/Request for Password Reset form, available at subchapter Appendix D,
				to the NJIIS Help Desk at the facsimile number indicated on the NJIIS webpage or to
				the local MCHC.
(b) The VPDP shall
				address an administrator's or site administrator's request for withdrawal of an
				authorized user's NJIIS access within one business day of receipt of the request.
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.11 - Informing parents

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(a) The VPDP shall make
				available an NJIIS Informational Brochure, available at subchapter Appendix
				E.
(b) Birthing facilities shall
				complete the following process with regard to informing parents about the NJIIS:
1. Maintain written procedures to document and
				ensure each parent is provided a copy of the NJIIS Informational Brochure before or
				upon the newborn's discharge from the facility;
2. Document the parent's receipt of the NJIIS
				Informational Brochure by making a notation in the newborn's permanent medical
				record;
3. Provide a Declination of
				Newborn Automatic Enrollment form, available at subchapter Appendix G, to any parent
				of a newborn that does not wish to participate in the NJIIS; and
4. Retain a copy of the signed and dated
				Declination of Newborn Automatic Enrollment form as a part of the permanent medical
				record of the newborn.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.12 - Registrant enrollment

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(a) Birthing facilities
				shall automatically enroll all newborns born on or after January 1, 1998, in the
				NJIIS through submittal of the electronic birth certificate (EBC) to the
				Department's Bureau of Vital Statistics and Registration, unless a parent of a
				newborn has declined participation and completed a Declination of Newborn Automatic
				Enrollment form, available in subchapter Appendix G, which shall be noted on the
				EBC.
(b) When a newborn is enrolled,
				birthing facilities shall:
1. Record and report
				information about any vaccine or biological administered at the birthing facility on
				the EBC prior to the discharge of the newborn; and
2. Submit the EBC to the Department no later than
				14 days following the discharge of the newborn.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.13 - Registrant access to information

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(a) Any registrant or
				parent of a registrant, if he or she is a minor, shall have access to a printout of
				the registrant's NJIIS immunization record, and may obtain a copy of the record by
				completing the following process:
1. Make a
				written request for record release to an authorized user.
i. The authorized user may request verification of
				identification.
ii. If the authorized
				user is a health care provider, the provider shall keep a copy of the written
				request for record release in the permanent medical record of the registrant;
				or
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.14 - Registrant amendment of record

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(a) Any registrant or
				parent of a registrant, if he or she is a minor, may request an amendment of
				demographic or medical information contained in the registrant's NJIIS record by
				submitting a request for an amendment of:
1.
				Demographic information to an authorized user utilizing the Request for Change to
				NJIIS Immunization Record form, available at subchapter Appendix H, with appropriate
				documentation necessary to modify existing information contained in an NJIIS record;
				or
2. Medical information to the VPDP
				utilizing the Request for Change to NJIIS Immunization Record form with appropriate
				documentation necessary to modify existing information contained in an NJIIS record.
i. The VPDP shall process the request for an
				amendment of medical information in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability
				and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996,
				42 U.S.C.
				§§
												1301 et seq. and the rules
				promulgated thereunder by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services,
				specifically
				45 CFR
				164.526.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.15 - Registrant withdrawal

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(a) A registrant or
				parent of a registrant, if he or she is a minor, may withdraw from the NJIIS at any
				time by completing the following process:
1.
				Submit a completed Registrant Withdrawal from NJIIS form, available at N.J.A.C.
				8:57-3 Appendix J, to the VPDP at the VPDP mailing address.
i. The VPDP shall retain the copy of the form on
				file.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.16 - Mandatory participation for health care providers

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(a) Every health care
				provider administering vaccines to children less than seven years of age shall
				register as an NJIIS site and authorized user and commence online reporting of
				vaccinations prior to December 31, 2011, in compliance with this
				subchapter.
(b) Any health care provider
				that participates in the NJIIS shall report vaccinations of NJIIS registrants
				through the following ways:
1. Birthing facilities
				that complete information on the EBC;
2.
				The collaborating public health programs, NJ Medicaid Program, or NJ FamilyCare
				Program;
3. An intermediary authorized
				user with an electronic connection to the NJIIS, such as a health benefit plan,
				practice management vendor, or billing management vendor; or
4. An authorized user entering data manually for
				an NJIIS site directly into the NJIIS through an internet connection.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.17 - Application of the NJIIS tracking/reminder recall function

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(a) In order to utilize
				the functions of the NJIIS tracking and reminder/recall module, any authorized user
				with access to the module as set forth at
				8:57-3.8(b), that has
				selected to use the module may notify a registrant or parent of a registrant, if he
				or she is a minor, by telephone, mail, or personal contact about the registrant's
				current vaccination or preventive health screening status or about a vaccination or
				preventive health screening that is due or overdue according to:
1. The Recommended Immunization Schedules for
				Persons Aged 0 - 18 Years, applicable for that year; and
2. The Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric
				Health Care (RE9535) commonly known as "the periodicity schedule."
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.18 - Acceptance of NJIIS record as evidence of immunization

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Child care centers, schools, colleges, and universities in New
				  Jersey shall accept an NJIIS immunization record, as an adequate form of required
				  immunization documentation used to determine admission of a registrant to any of
				  those institutions.
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.19 - Data exchange

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(a) Any authorized user
				reporting vaccinations pursuant to
				8:57-3.16, or performing or reporting
				preventive health screenings shall submit all vaccination and preventive health
				screening information to the NJIIS in a secure electronic format as established by
				the Department.
1. The Department shall inform
				authorized users, as described in (a) above, of the secure electronic file format
				upon completion of the enrollment and training process established at
				8:57-3.8.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.20 - Reports

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(a) The Department may
				release summary statistical data and supporting narrative information collected from
				the NJIIS in an aggregate form that does not identify an individual registrant or
				authorized user, to local health agencies or other State public health or State
				social service agencies.
(b) The
				Department shall prepare statistical and narrative reports or related documents as
				requested by the NJIIS funding agency, the United States Department of Health and
				Human Services, CDC and as required by the cooperative grant agreement between the
				Department and the CDC.
(c) Individuals
				or entities shall not utilize information contained in the NJIIS or reports
				generated from the NJIIS in a punitive manner against any authorized user.
(d) Individuals or entities shall not utilize
				information contained in the NJIIS or reports generated from the NJIIS for a
				pecuniary or profit motive, marketing, or a similar purpose.
(e) Reports and records of registrants including
				individual level data generated from the NJIIS or with NJIIS data shall not be
				included under materials available for public inspection pursuant to
				47:1A-1 et seq., and shall be deemed
				"information relating to medical history, diagnosis, treatment, or evaluation"
				within the meaning of Executive Order 26, § 4(b)1 (McGreevey, August 13, 2002)
				and therefore, not government records subject to public access or inspection within
				the meaning of 47:1A-1 et seq.
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				  1/3/2024 is not yet
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.21 - Authorized user immunity

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(a) Any authorized user
				submitting, providing, or otherwise transmitting vaccine or preventive health
				screening information to the NJIIS in good faith to further the purposes of
				promoting public health, providing patient care, or fostering regulatory compliance,
				in accordance with the provisions of
				26:4-131 et seq. and this subchapter,
				shall not be held liable for divulging confidential registrant information as set
				forth at 26:4-135(a).
1. The Department may request any authorized user
				accessing the NJIIS to provide supporting documentation that access is consistent
				with the authority set forth at
				8:57-3.8 and 3.9.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.22 - Penalties

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(a) Any authorized user
				that fails to comply with this subchapter or knowingly enters false information into
				the NJIIS shall be subject to suspension or revocation of access to the
				NJIIS.
(b) The Department may issue a
				written notification and warning to a health care provider that fails to complete
				required reporting of vaccination information pursuant to
				8:57-3.16, after consideration of the
				following:
1. Whether the health care provider
				failed to report within 30 days of administration; and/or
2. Whether the health care provider failed to
				register as an NJIIS site and authorized user and commence online reporting of
				vaccinations prior to January 1, 2011.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Section 8:57-3.23 - Appeals

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(a) An applicant that is
				denied enrollment as an NJIIS site or authorized user or an authorized user whose
				access to the NJIIS has been suspended or revoked may file an appeal as set forth in
				(b) below.
(b) An applicant or
				authorized user wishing to submit an appeal made pursuant to (a) above shall:
1. Submit two written copies of the appeal to the
				Commissioner within 30 calendar days of the VPDP or MCHC issuance of a letter of
				denial of enrollment, or suspension or revocation of access to the NJIIS at the
				address provided in that letter; and
2.
				Include in the written appeal:
i. A detailed
				description of the basis of the appeal;
ii. A list of all factual and legal
				issues;
iii. Citations to the applicable
				provisions of the NJIIS rules; and
iv.
				Any supporting documentation.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Appendix A

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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
ENROLLMENT REQUEST FOR NEW NJIIS SITE
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
USER ENROLLMENT AND TRAINING REQUEST
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
USER CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF USER SECURITY AUTHORIZATION
REQUEST FOR PASSWORD RESET
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Appendix E

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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
INFORMATIONAL PAMPHLET
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 3 - THE NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS) › Appendix G

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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
DECLINATION OF NEWBORN AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
REQUEST FOR CHANGE TO NJIIS IMMUNIZATION RECORD
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
REQUEST FOR COPY OF NJIIS IMMUNIZATION RECORD
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NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (NJIIS)
REGISTRANT WITHDRAWAL FROM NJIIS
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.1 - Applicability

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This subchapter shall apply to all children attending any public
				  or private school, child care center, nursery school, preschool or kindergarten in
				  New Jersey.
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.2 - Proof of immunization

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A principal, director or other person in charge of a school,
				  preschool, or child care facility shall not knowingly admit or retain any child
				  whose parent or guardian has not submitted acceptable evidence of the child's
				  immunization, according to the schedules specified in this subchapter. Exemptions to
				  this requirement are identified at
				  8:57-4.3 and 4.4.
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				  1/3/2024 is not yet
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.3 - Medical exemptions

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(a) A child shall not be
				required to have any specific immunization(s) which are medically
				contraindicated.
(b) A written statement
				submitted to the school, preschool, or child care center from a physician licensed
				to practice medicine or osteopathy or an advanced practice nurse (certified
				registered nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist) in any jurisdiction of
				the United States indicating that an immunization is medically contraindicated for a
				specific period of time, and the reason(s) for the medical contraindication, based
				upon valid medical reasons as enumerated by the Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices (ACIP) of the United States Public Health Service or the American Academy
				of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines, will exempt a pupil from the specific immunization
				requirement for the stated period of time.
1. The
				guidelines identified in (b) above are available as follows:
i. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,
				U.S. Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
				30333; and
ii. American Academy of
				Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases, PO Box 927, Elk Grove, IL
				60009-0927.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.4 - Religious exemptions

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(a) Each school,
				preschool, or child care center shall exempt a child from mandatory immunization if
				the child's parent or guardian submits to the school, preschool, or child care
				center a written, signed statement requesting an exemption, pursuant to the
				requirements for religious exemption established at
				26:1A-9.1, on "the ground that the . .
				. immunization interferes with the free exercise of the pupil's religious rights."
1. The school, preschool, or child care center
				shall be prohibited from exempting a child from mandatory immunization on the sole
				basis of a moral or philosophical objection to immunization.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.5 - Provisional admission

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(a) A child shall be
				admitted to a school, preschool, or child-care center on a provisional basis if a
				physician, an advanced practice nurse (certified registered nurse practitioner or
				clinical nurse specialist) or health department can document that at least one dose
				of each required age-appropriate vaccine(s) or antigen(s) has been administered and
				that the pupil is in the process of receiving the remaining
				immunization(s).
(b) Provisional
				admission for children under age five shall be granted in compliance with the
				specific requirements set forth in
				8:57-4.10 through 4.15 and 4.18 for a
				period of time consistent with the current Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices (ACIP) of the United States Public Health Service or the American Academy
				of Pediatrics (AAP) immunization schedule, but shall not exceed 17 months for
				completion of all immunization requirements.
(c) Provisional admission for children five years
				of age or older shall be granted in compliance with the specific requirements set
				forth in 8:57-4.10 through 4.14 and 4.16 for a
				period of time consistent with the current Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices (ACIP) of the United States Public Health Service or the American Academy
				of Pediatrics (AAP) immunization schedule, but shall not exceed one year for
				completion of all immunization requirements.
(d) Provisional status shall only be granted one
				time to children entering or transferring into schools, preschools, or child care
				centers in New Jersey. Information on this status shall be sent by the original
				school, preschool, or child care center to the new school, preschool, or child care
				center pursuant to
				8:57-4.7(b).
(e) Those children transferring into a New Jersey
				school, preschool, or child-care center from out-of-State or out-of-country shall be
				allowed a 30-day grace period in order to obtain past immunization documentation
				before provisional status shall begin.
(f) The school, preschool, or child care center
				shall ensure that the required vaccine/antigens are being received on schedule. If
				at the end of the provisional admission period, the child has not completed the
				required immunizations, the administrative head of the school, preschool or child
				care center shall exclude the child from continued school attendance until
				appropriate documentation has been presented.
(g) Those children in provisional status may be
				temporarily excluded from the school, preschool, or child care center during a
				vaccine-preventable disease outbreak or threatened outbreak as determined by the
				Commissioner, Department of Health and Senior Services or his or her
				designee.
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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.6 - Documents accepted as evidence of immunization

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(a) The following
				documents shall be accepted as evidence of a child's immunization history provided
				that the type of immunization and the date when each immunization was administered
				is listed:
1. An official school record from any
				school, pre-school, or child care center indicating compliance with the immunization
				requirements of this subchapter;
2. A
				record from any public health department indicating compliance with the immunization
				requirements of this subchapter;
3. A
				certificate signed by a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy or an
				advanced practice nurse (certified registered nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse
				specialist) in any jurisdiction of the United States indicating compliance with the
				immunization requirements of this subchapter; or
4. The official record of immunization from the
				New Jersey Immunization Information System indicating compliance with the
				immunization requirements of this subchapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 4 - IMMUNIZATION OF PUPILS IN SCHOOL › Section 8:57-4.7 - Records required

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(a) Every school,
				preschool, or child-care center shall maintain an official State of New Jersey
				School Immunization Record for every pupil. This record shall include the date of
				each immunization and shall be separated from the child's educational record and
				other medical records for purpose of immunization record audit.
(b) If a child withdraws, is promoted, or
				transfers to another school, preschool, or child care center, the immunization
				record, or a certified copy thereof, along with statements pertaining to religious
				or medical exemptions and laboratory evidence of immunity, shall be sent to the new
				school by the original school or shall be given to the parent or guardian upon
				request, within 24 hours of such a request.
(c) When a child graduates from secondary school,
				this record, or a certified copy thereof, shall be sent to an institution of higher
				education or may be given to the parent or guardian upon request.
(d) Each child's official New Jersey School
				Immunization Record, or a certified copy thereof, shall be retained by every
				secondary school for a minimum of four years after the pupil has left the school.
				Every elementary school, preschool, or child care center shall retain an
				immunization record, or a copy thereof, for a minimum of one year after the child
				has left the school.
(e) Any
				computer-generated document or list developed by a school, preschool, or child care
				center shall be considered a supplement to, and not a replacement of, the official
				New Jersey School Immunization Record.
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