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Reporting Guidelines
Florida Administrative Code 64D-3 (pdf), entitled Control of Communicable Diseases and Conditions Which May Significantly Affect Public Health, is the mandate that empowers the Department of Health to record communicable diseases and dictates when and how diseases are to be reported to the Department by both practitioners and laboratories.
If you are a practitioner, you should report diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease (with the exception of HIV/AIDS) to your local county health department or complete the Disease Report Form and fax it along with a copy of the lab to 850-414-8103.
If you are a laboratory, you should contact the Department about electronic laboratory reporting. To discuss ELR implementation, please contact Kenya Roberts, Bureau of Epidemiology at (850) 245-4444 x 2370, or
ELR@doh.state.fl.us. Until you have implemented electronic reporting, you must continue to report to the local county health department having jurisdiction for the area in which the office of the submitting practitioner or the patient's residence is located.
The Department of Health utilizes the “MMWR: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, 2010” from the CDC on comprehensive treatment recommendations for different sexually transmitted infections.
(4) The practitioner who
FIRST authorizes, orders, requests or submits a specimen to a licensed laboratory for testing for any agent listed in Rule 64D-3.029, F.A.C., shall obtain and provide the information required by sub-subparagraph 64D-3.031(3)(a)1.-9., F.A.C., at the time the specimen is sent.