Quick Start

Available to: Students, Staff, Departments, New/Incoming Students

Cost: No charge

Student Health Services (SHS) is an integrated health center supporting Boston University students’ health and wellness. It provides up-to-date student medical compliance statuses as needed and as required to the Office of the Registrar and the State of Massachusetts Health Services. It uses Point and Click’s (PnC) EMR system.

Benefits

By providing all clients appropriate and convenient access to a single repository for all relevant information, this service reduces costs and improves accuracy through the elimination of manual entry, and ensures compliance with BU policies and state health regulations.

Key Features

  • Integrates with internal BU services, in particular, the Registration service
  • Provides both mass and targeted email communication
  • Delivers information and transactional functionality through a variety of targeted portals
  • Provides distributed management tools to administrators

What to Expect

This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in IS&T’s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes.

Requirements

  • To access the Student Health service, one needs:
  • A BU login account is required to access functionality on the Faculty/Staff Link (departments and staff). Staff members require a mainframe account and DUO to access functionality on the mainframe.

Getting Started

  • Students: In the Student Link, select Personal, then Compliance
  • Administrators: Use the Faculty/Staff Link
  • Certain distributed administrative functions may require additional training from central administration or the department. Individuals should check with their unit’s Data Security Administrator (DSA) for training availability.
  • Staff requiring access to the overall immunization compliance status on the mainframe, as well as functionality on Faculty/Staff Link should contact their unit’s Data Security Administrator (DSA) to request correct permissions for access to functions and data.