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The IISAR is an annual survey that assesses immunization program performance in developing, maintaining, and enhancing Immunization Information Systems for a given calendar year. It is a reporting requirement for the 64 immunization programs that receive fundi...

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

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