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Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about using IIS data to improve immunization rates and public health

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: CDC leadership shares their vision for advancing IIS together, with Q&A after the panel discussion

Data Use Agreement with APHL (Association of Public Health Laboratories) for participation in both IZ Gateway Connect and IZ Gateway Share (updated August 3, 2020)

A Discovery Session webinar focusing on how data analytics can help IIS prepare for the challenges ahead such as a COVID vaccine, expanded flu season and catchup of routine immunizations

A national strategy for a novel COVID-19 vaccine rollout is currently being developed. In the interim, there are things that all immunization programs and immunization information systems (IIS) can do to better prepare for pandemic vaccination. This one-sheet ...

Webinar focused on lessons learned from H1N1 and how they are informing the response to COVID-19

AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to highlight using IIS to support an outbreak response

Webinar focused on the IIS/NIS (National Immunization Survey) Match Project

AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to highlight how IIS programs made the leap from collecting and maintaining their data to actively using their data

A 3-part webinar series hosted by AIRA and researchers at the University of Colorado describes a toolkit on conducting centralized reminder/recall. Several IIS also share their experiences with implementing and sustaining reminder/recall using their IIS. Centr...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the NIS-IIS Data Use Agreement (DUA).

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the North Dakota Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding using IIS for conducting text reminder/recall.

A paper was published in Pediatrics comparing Washington State's IIS data to EHR data on preterm infant vaccination rates showing the early childhood vaccination status of preterm infants

This guide will help you implement centralized IIS-based reminder/recall, and is primarily designed for people working in public health departments (state and local) or IIS.

Patient status is a concept used in immunization information systems to identify the party that is responsibility for vaccination of a patient at a provider organization or geographic jurisdiction level. Active status of a patient with a provider organization ...

New and emerging issues from AIRA's vital records partners and a glimpse into vital record exchanges in two states

This commentary discusses how measures for assessing vaccination status and program performance can be redefined and recalculated using data when generated at the health facility level and the implications of the use and availability of electronic individual-l...

Release of the Address Cleansing Reintegration Guide that provides practical guidance on bringing standardized and validated addresses and geocodes back into your IIS

This document explores how to use small area analysis to find pockets of need and provides strategies for responding to pockets of need

National Meeting Presentation | Better Immunization Data Initiative

National Meeting Presentation | Communicating Vaccinations to Public Health Using Mobile Apps 

National Meeting Presentation | The Citizen-Centered Smart Vaccination Record of MesVaccins.net

National Meeting Presentation | Nebraska’s Parkinson’s Disease Registry and NESIIS

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Data Use in Low-Resource Settings: Assessment, Outbreak Response, and Evaluation

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Immunization Information Data to Improve Lead Screening Rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

National Meeting Presentation | Project IMPACT Immunizations: IMProving America’s Communities Together

National Meeting Presentation | Using Michigan’s Immunization Information System to Assess When Children Fall Behind in the Recommended Vaccination Schedule

National Meeting Presentation | Value of IIS Data for Monitoring Vaccination at the National Level

National Meeting Presentation | Are We There Yet? Assessing IIS Readiness for Research & Surveillance

National Meeting Presentation | Comparing IIS to NIS Coverage Assessments: A Cautionary Tale

National Meeting Presentation | Cost Savings of Using an IIS to Assess Immunity Status During an Outbreak

National Meeting Presentation | Recent Developments with the National Immunization Survey-Child

National Meeting Presentation | Use of Immunization Information System in Vaccinating Inmates During Hepatitis A Outbreak in San Diego

National Meeting Presentation | Utilizing Adult Data in Michigan’s Immunization Registry to Monitor a Hepatitis A Outbreak

National Meeting Presentation | Assessing Electronic Immunization Registries: The PAHO experience

National Meeting Presentation | Centralized HPV Vaccination Recall Among Michigan Adolescents

National Meeting Presentation | Geographic distribution of HPV Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents in North Dakota

National Meeting Presentation | Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine: A First Look at Uptake and Coverage

National Meeting Presentation | Use of IIS for Program Interventions – Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine: An Open Source Option for Immunization Forecasting

National Meeting Presentation | Assessing Change with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Availability of IIS Data for Health Plans Reporting an Adult Immunization Quality Measure

National Meeting Presentation | IIS & Immunization Best Practice Quality Improvement Project in Southeast Michigan

National Meeting Presentation | Assessing Ongoing Monthly Reminder/Recall - Who + Where + Why + Outcome

National Meeting Presentation | Effectiveness of High-Dose Influenza Vaccine Among Oregon Seniors

National Meeting Presentation | Identifying Immunization Overutilization Populations in Minnesota

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of Text-Message Recall for Influenza Vaccination by a Health Department

National Meeting Presentation | Improving the National Immunization Surveys (NIS)-IIS Match Reports

National Meeting Presentation | The Least Costly IIS-Based Reminder/Recall Approach to Reach Accountable Care Organization Patients

National Meeting Presentation | 1-1 vs 1-Many Patient Active/Inactive Status: Why You Should Care

National Meeting Presentation | Bloomer Awards

National Meeting Presentation | Data Quality Enhancement

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small in Utah: Identifying Immunization Pockets Of Need: Small Area Analysis of IIS Data To Detect Undervaccinated Populations

National Meeting Presentation | Utilization of Manage Patient Status in NYSIIS to Improve Data Quality

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce two new guides for the IIS community that will be released very soon - IIS Data Quality Practices: To Monitor and Evaluate Data at Rest and Identifying Immunization Pockets of Need:...

This session focused on IIS data use, and included presentations from Oregon and North Dakota, two states participating in CDC’s Sentinel Site project

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding SAS coding to determine immunization coverage rates.

Information about AIRA's geocoding contest, which was created to incentivize participation in SmartyStreets, the no-cost address cleansing and geocoding service available to all IIS programs.

This document provides guidance for immunization provider sites, and provides best practice recommendations on how to best utilize IIS reports to improve data quality prior to running a vaccination coverage rate assessment.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient inactivation

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding reporting requirements, enforcement, and penalties

External Link | A collection of specialized tools and apps that support public health practice maintained by the Mid Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

This course builds on HL7 Basics to dive deeper into how HL7 works. Learners will explore conformance, constraints, and message profiles. We'll also cover how the Implementation Guide constrains the HL7 standard, how local specifications are set up, and how co...

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the AIRA resource, Comparing & Communicating Vaccination Coverage Estimates from Immunization Information Systems (IIS), the National Immunization Survey (NIS), and Related Assessme...

This guide provides practical tips that can be used to help explain vaccination coverage assessment results to decision makers, such as senior public health leadership, legislators, and the media

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new resource, Practical Examples of IIS Population-based Coverage Assessments. This resource is an addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an II...

Article | This study evaluates the impact of using IIS data to identify unmet vaccination needs in adults seeking the influenza vaccine. The study found a 41.4% increase in the number of vaccines administered, and significant improvements in routinely recomme...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient active/inactive status

Webinar | This Discovery Session featured an epidemiologist from Colorado who shared how they use an open source forecasting tool called the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) within the Colorado IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Statewide Immunization Reminder & Recall Postcards

National Meeting Presentation | Establishing Data Linkages for Targeted Immunization Data Analyses

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Your IIS to Vaccinate Refugees

National Meeting Presentation | Linking IIS and Clinical Databases to Assess HPV Vaccine Effectiveness

Use of IIS for Determining Compliance with School Vaccination Requirements

National Meeting Presentation | School House Rocks: Use of Roster Data in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of 9vHPV Vaccine Introduction on HPV Vaccination in North Carolina

National Meeting Presentation | Pnowing About Pneumococcal—An Inquiry into Vaccine Coding and Use

National Meeting Presentation | Measuring Maternal Vaccination Rates: Comparison of Two Methods

National Meeting Presentation | Understanding the NIS and Its Relationship with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluating the Feasibility of Using IIS as a Sample Frame for the NIS

National Meeting Presentation | Estimating U.S. National Vaccination Coverage Using IIS Sentinel Site Data

National Meeting Presentation | Immunized on Time? Impact of Household Dynamics on Childhood Immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Everyday Uses for IIS Data

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small: Strategies for Identifying Local Pockets of Need

National Meeting Presentation | Inter-IIS Collaboration: Lessons from the CDC Denominator Inflation Project

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS Data to Monitor Uptake in Adult Immunization Recommendations

This Addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an IIS describes real-life examples of coverage assessments using IIS data. These examples (from IIS in New York City, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Washington state) provide explan...

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session featured presentations on HEDIS (the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and discussed the development process for HEDIS measures, as well as the contribution of IIS data to the measurement process

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar featuring presenters from Michigan, North Dakota and AIM who shared ideas for improving coverage rates using IIS data from an immunization program manager's perspective

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide and AIRA 2016 National Meeting Presentation

National Meeting Presentation | Matching Enhances IIS Data — Assessing Tdap Uptake During Pregnancy in Washington State

National Meeting Presentation | Characteristics Associated With Michigan Children Under-immunized in Their First Year of Life

National Meeting Presentation | Using Existing Disease Reporting to Publicize Registry Influenza Immunization Tracking in Oregon

National Meeting Presentation | Putting Best Practices to Work: Colorado’s Experience with IIS-Based Centralized Reminder/Recall

National Meeting Presentation | Using an IIS to Provide Quarterly Human Papilloma Virus (Hpv) Coverage Detail to Medical Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS and Vital Statistics Data to Measure Racial/Ethnic Immunization Coverage Disparities in MN

National Meeting Presentation | Testing Reliability of Regional Coverage Rates Using Registry Data in Voluntary Reporting Areas

National Meeting Presentation | Implementation of Provider-Based Text Message Recall Through an Immunization Information System

Identifies and explores ways local public health departments across the United States use IIS