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The purpose of this preliminary guidance developed by an SISC small workgroup is to assist IIS, EHR vendors, and other stakeholders in preparing for the technical requirements of creating HL7 messages containing serologic results as proof of immunity during th...

Webinar covering current response planning information and presentations from jurisdictions

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding handling exemptions.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygienge to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding tools or applications IIS are using to administer PODs and streamline the report...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

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

Mini-series to promote and support the use of AART as a means for IIS to more quickly and efficiently align with national standards and priorities.

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss Acknowledgment (ACK) Processing Rules and Proposed 2021 Submission & Acknowledgment Validation including NDC Measures 15 an...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

A Discovery Session webinar focusing on the Data at Rest (DAR) pilot project and the data quality tools available to IIS to monitor data quality by provider

As immunization programs and immunization information systems (IIS) prepare to support pandemic response vaccination efforts, there is a need for decision-makers to ensure IIS policies do not inhibit data exchange and reporting. This one-sheet resource highlig...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the California Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding temporary names for newborns.

Webinar highlighting a new resource, Vaccine Code Set Considerations: If Only It Were Rocket Science

This document provides a general overview of vaccine code sets and also briefly describe how code sets are used in support of multiple and varied IIS functions, including electronic data exchange with EHRs and other health information systems, and vaccine orde...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding electronic IIS and VFC enrollment.

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 ...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the validation and population of missing phone numbers in an IIS

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Utah Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding immunizations designated as shared decision on immunization forecast reports

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

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

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 challenges related to enrolling in or using the IIS for providers that are not currently enrolled

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding provider organization level report cards/data quality reports

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Provider organization participation and tools for provider management

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

In 2019, the AIRA Education Steering Committee assessed the educational needs of the IIS community. This report includes an analysis of the results, which will be used to guide the development of new resources and educational opportunities

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed measures for Incoming/Ongoing Data, CDS Assessment Thresholds, and CDS Validation

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Summary of the IIS Measurement and Improvement process developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW)

Overview of the three stages of the IIS Measurement and Improvement process developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW)

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

Introduction to the newly released MIROW guide, Business Continuity Planning for Immunization Information Systems Programs

The purpose of this guide is to help IIS programs develop and implement business continuity plans and management systems.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

This document serves to draw all current interjurisdictional exchange activities together to define a process and goals for administration and coordination among AIRA’s membership

The session covered key points to consider when involved in the procurement process including considerations when updating maintenance and support contractors and when acquiring new systems or services

The AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Vermont Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding updating and managing addresses.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Connecticut Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding risk assessment surveys.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

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 WIC program relations.

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).

This Discovery Session focused on soon-to-be released guidance on Patient Status in IIS

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.

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 out-of-state schools and IIS access.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Chicago Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding digital opt out forms.

Webinar hosted by AIRA's Education Steering Committee providing information about the one-sheet resources, a quick explanation of how to add your logo, and ideas for promoting your IIS

This session introduced the IIS Data Saturation Guide, a recent AIRA publication focused on current methodologies for the collection of legacy data, as well as data gap monitoring and resolution processes.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Oregon Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding letters confirming active engagement for Stage 3 MIPS/Promoting Interoperability

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Oregon Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding health plans using QBP to query members for HEDIS measures

The main purpose of the guide is to bridge the gap between currently published guidance on patient status and its actual implementation by IIS. This guide offers practical guidelines for providers, public health entities, and IIS to use in implementing and man...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from AIRA's Education Steering Committee to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding promoting IIS

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

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 funding to support IIS operations.

The AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

National Meeting | 2019 Agenda with links to presentations

This document outlines an approach to specify preferred or contraindicated vaccine types in a response message

This document provides guidance on how to populate OBX-14 for common observation types

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

A seven-minute video on how to view CDS results in the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART) and how view more detailed results through the integrated CDS feature within AART

A five-minute video with step-by-step instructions on how to improve your Query results in the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART) by using the NIST Immunization Test Suite

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed additional Submission measures for Assessment

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding combinations of CVX and Reaction Code

National Meeting Presentation | Measurement & Improvement: From Transport to Decision Support, All Your Questions Answered

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA leveraged a community-informed approach to examine current methodologies for the collection of legacy data, as well as data gap monitoring and resolution processes to inform the development of best practice guidance for standardizing and improving data ba...

Considerations for developing Policy for the IIS community, including discussing documentation that is being used in the community and examples to consider when drafting documents

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 ...

In 2017, the MIROW Steering Committee conducted a review of the MIROW process and products and determined that there were certain materials that remained largely consistent between all guides (e.g., MIROW background information and common vocabulary). The comm...

Webinar introducing the repackaged materials from the AIRA Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW) including the repackaged patient status guide and associated materials and the MIROW Common Vocabulary webpage and resources

The AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding recording international vaccines

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

This session focused on CDS Assessment in AART and getting the most out of your report

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding vaccine administration errors

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding communication through listservs

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC's TEFCA Draft 2

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Kentucky Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding importing school data

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC proposed rules: 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program

AIRA Letter and Comments on the CMS Patient Access and Interoperability Proposed Rules

This session focused on Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and provided considerations for documentation of service performance measures across IIS and all services that support IIS.