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The Tennessee Department of Health provides staff members for the 24 Health Professional Boards, three committees, two councils and four registries responsible for the licensure and regulation of more than three dozen health and medical professions in Tennessee. Approximately 260,000 individuals are licensed and regulated by the boards.
In Tennessee, anti-vaccine activists and libertarian-leaning organizations railed against the state’s health department in 2021 when it recommended covid vaccines to minors, following CDC guidance.
SMART Health Card. The SMART Health Card framework is an open source [1] immunity passport program designed to store and share medical information in paper or digital form. [2] It was initially launched as a vaccine passport during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is envisioned for use for other infectious diseases. [3]
By Sam Stockard, Tennessee Lookout. September 4, 2021. Fired state immunization director Dr. Michelle Fiscus has filed a federal lawsuit against top Department of Health officials and in her ...
Public health experts worry the renewed opposition to childhood immunizations will reverse state gains in vaccination rates. Meanwhile, cases of some diseases, including measles, have increased ...
June 16, 2021. The chairman of the House Government Operations Committee appears ready to grill Tennessee’s Health Department commissioner over childhood immunization policy, potentially to ...
Just 16.8% of 12-16 year olds in Tennessee have been fully vaccinated (8.4% are partially vaccinated), while 26.2% of young people between the ages of 17 and 20 have been fully vaccinated (with 7% ...
Immunization registry. An immunization registry or immunization information system ( IIS) is an information system that collects vaccination data about all persons within a geographic area. It consolidates the immunization records from multiple sources for each person living in its jurisdiction.