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During this Discovery Session, CDC will provide an overview of the immunization surveillance landscape and its support of CDC’s data modernization efforts. Attendees will learn about the IZ Gateway’s IIS-to-CDC use case, and the progress made by participat...

In this AIRA Discovery Session you will: Learn about the Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) postcard reminder/recall program. Hear from the Nevada State Immunization Program about their efforts to increase vaccination rates among racial/ethnic minori...

The Smarty FAQ provides guidance on some of the basics of Smarty and available resources to help implement Smarty.

An Environmental Scan on Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Expanding Immunization Information Systems for Adults in the United States

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

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

Webinar focused on COVID-19 Vaccine Readiness - An Overview of CDC’s COVID-19 Preparedness Report and AIRA’s Measurement and Improvement COVID-19 Standards Alignment Report

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how electronic immunization registries are used all over the globe to track and improve immunization rates worldwide

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