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Objective This course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of the IIS community in using VXU messages to support the interoperability of immunization information between systems in alignment with the National IG. The IIS core competencies most cl...

AIRA Members and Partners Meeting: October 2023

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

IIS Orientation to Provider Onboarding: Resources Checklist

The IIS Orientation to Provider Onboarding: Resources Checklist serves as a starting point for staff who are new to an IIS onboarding role and/or are new to interoperability as it relates to immunization messaging

Assessing the Immunization Information System and Electronic Health Record Interface Accuracy for COVID-19 Vaccinations

Immunizations in the United States are given in many different settings including pharmacies, doctors’ offices, and health departments. After a vaccine is administered, the information is uploaded to an Immunization Information System (IIS), usually run by t...

Fundamentals of IIS: HL7 Basics

Fundamentals of IIS: HL7 Basics

Issued on January 24, 2023 by PHII

Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to explain the key concepts of HL7 specific to IIS. Learners will explore what HL7 is, why it is used for immunization messaging, how it works, what the impacts of HL7 messaging are on IIS, and...

AART End User Update

AART End User Update

Issued on January 20, 2023 by AIRA

The Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART) is updated on a regular basis which impacts various IIS-specific reports, features and user navigation. This update includes significant enhancements as outlined below

Technical Assistance Service Offerings

Technical Assistance Service Offerings

Issued on November 30, 2022 by AIRA

This Technical Assistance (TA) Service catalog documents the available services and resource offerings available to the IIS community by AIRA. These resources can be used to plan and implement internal improvements and to help prioritize enhancements. This ca...

A Pandemic Success Story: Distribution and Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines

A Pandemic Success Story: Distribution and Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines

Issued on October 13, 2022 by Journal of Public Health Management & Practice

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense hardship and suffering across our nation. It continues to test the capacity and resilience of the US public health system and has put great personal and physical strain on the public health workforce. The development of...

Connecting Systems

Issued on November 30, 2021 by AIRA

Objective The objective of the Connecting Systems course is to provide a fundamental understanding of digital information encoding for both transmission and storage. Learning Outcomes Digital Data Representation: Understand that all digital data is...

Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting

Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting is a course intended to improve the way all IIS staff interact with their forecasting systems or functionality so that staff can better troubleshoot user questions, onboard providers, advocate for systems changes, and w...

Fundamentals of IIS: Interoperability

Fundamentals of IIS: Interoperability

Issued on August 18, 2021 by PHII

Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to introduce learners to key concepts related to interoperability and the responsibilities of the IIS. This course includes information about electronic health records, health information excha...

Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccination: A Call to Action for Clinicians on Immunization Information Systems

Annals of Internal Medicine article regarding a call to action for clinicians on IIS in preparation for COVID-19 vaccination

The Potential for Centralized Reminder/Recall to Increase Immunization Rates: A National Survey of IIS Managers

Preventive Medicine Reports, Volume 21 article regarding using Centralized IIS-based Reminder/Recall as an effective approach to increasing immunization rates

IIS Migration Toolkit

IIS Migration Toolkit

Issued on September 22, 2020 by PHII

The IIS Migration Toolkit guides IIS staff through transitioning to a new technology platform, or any other large-scale IIS project. Included tools touch on topics like staffing, communications, training, testing and more. This toolkit was developed by the Pub...

IIS Operations Tools

IIS Operations Tools

Issued on September 22, 2020 by PHII

The IIS Operations Tools page empowers IIS staff to navigate the various processes involved in managing and maintaining the day-to-day operations of a well functioning IIS. This set of tools was developed by the Public Health Informatics Institute with input f...

Smarty Address Cleansing and Geocoding Orientation

An orientation session designed to help IIS get started with Smarty

Introduction to Clinical Decision Support

Introduction to Clinical Decision Support

Issued on September 3, 2019 by 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

Query Assessment and How to Improve

Query Assessment and How to Improve

Issued on September 3, 2019 by AIRA

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

Early Childhood Vaccination Status of Preterm Infants

Early Childhood Vaccination Status of Preterm Infants

Issued on August 29, 2019 by Pediatrics

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

Special for University of Nebraska Medical Center regarding adolescents coming down with preventable diseases that they should be protected against