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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

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.

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about IIS community success, data at rest pilots, and Measurement and Improvement (M&I) 2020 Validation recognition If you are interested in listening to a recording of this webinar, please email info@imm...

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 IIS operations and security

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about on bolstering the IIS end user experience

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

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...

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about several data quality initiatives throughout the IIS community

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how the IZ Gateway project is being used in pandemic response

An orientation session designed to help IIS get started with Smarty

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

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.

AIRA-AIM joint Education Steering Committee webinar regarding supporting high levels of immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic

This document provides a fillable form for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for secure, electronic exchange of immunization information among governmental entities that operate a population-based immunization information system (IIS)

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...

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 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.

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 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

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

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

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...

Provider organization participation and tools for provider management

The latest updates on the 2019 IIS Annual Report

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

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

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 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 out-of-state schools and IIS access.

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | CMS Matching Funding Program: 90/10, 75/25, 50/50

National Meeting Presentation | Consumer Access to Immunization Records: A Spectrum of Approaches

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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 Letter and Comments on ONC's TEFCA Draft 2

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

Mary Beth Kurilo, Policy and Planning Director at AIRA, led a discussion on ONC's Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Draft 2 and AIRA's draft comments.

Overview of the recently released Functional Guide Volume 2: CDC Endorsed Data Elements

AIRA sent out an Information Request from HLN Consulting, LLC. to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS who provide access to patients (or their guardians) without provider intermediation

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...

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 increasing provider participation

A team from the Immunization Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reviewed existing methodologies to evaluate health information systems. Methodology was developed to assess electronic immunization registries (EIRs) in low- and middle-income cou...

The latest updates on the 2018 IIS Annual Report

AIRA sent out an Information Request from Texas Department of State Health Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding receiving birth and death files from Vital Statistics

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC report: Strategy on Reducing Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs

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 importing immunization data from a veterans hospital

Common areas of variability for IIS-EHR interoperability based on jurisdictional law and policy

The purpose of the guide is to provide practical guidance on techniques, methodologies, and processes for IIS to use in assessing the quality of data at rest. This data includes demographic and immunization record information that is currently in the live, pro...

The purpose of this AIRA guide is to improve and standardize onboarding. This document is intended for both technical and programmatic staff that make up IIS onboarding teams and program administrators responsible for the allocation of onboarding resources. EH...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Mississippi State Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding removing imprecise records

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

In honor of National Health IT Week, some the innovative ways Immunization Information Systems (IIS) support Public Health and Clinical Medicine were presented

This document builds upon the previous implementation guide and provides a more in-depth exploration of address cleansing for IIS programs. The document also provides guidance for reintegrating validated and standardized addresses and geocodes back into IIS

Tools and documents to support the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

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 | A Global Health Perspective: IIS and the Global Opportunity

National Meeting Presentation | Better Immunization Data Initiative

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

National Meeting Presentation | Use of an IIS to Improve the Efficiency of Immunization Certificate Check

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

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 | Leveraging Pharmacy Partnerships to Improve Oregon's Immunization Rates

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

National Meeting Presentation | The Interjurisdictional Hub Project

National Meeting Presentation | The Landscape of Interjurisdictional Exchange

National Meeting Presentation | The Legal Landscape of Interjurisdictional Exchange

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 | Web Based Immunization Reports for Public Health Programs

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 | Electronic Health Record Query-Response: Building on Our Success