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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...

AIRA Discovery Session reviewing the 2022 Immunization Information Systems Annual Report (IISAR). The IISAR is available on the awardee SharePoint site. For more information about the IISAR, please contact Terence Ng or Lauren Shaw

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...

The Data Quality Assurance in Immunization Information Systems guide, from the Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW), was released in early September and this webinar provides an overview and highlights of the guide. The IIS Best Pr...

Outlines the terms between AIRA and an IIS that participates in the community address cleansing service. This agreement must be reviewed, signed and returned to AIRA for an IIS to enroll in the program. (Please note: the attached agreement is the version that ...

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

Describes the process of summarizing acknowledgement messages (ACKs) in aggregate reports produced by IIS, EHRs and third-parties. ACKs are most helpful when they are summarized, reviewed and acted upon. The information contained within acknowledgment reports ...

SMART Health Cards are a simple and secure way for people to maintain, own, and share their health information as they see fit. AIRA developed a one-page resource on SMART Health Cards that defines what they are (and are not), how they can empower individuals ...

Vaccination events that occur as part of clinical trial can be reported to IIS under pre-defined circumstances. This guidance document provides an HL7 method to indicate the vaccination event was part of a clinical trial. It also provides additional considerat...

This session is an introduction to AIRA’s Interoperability Course. This course was designed in response to community needs to support staff working on IIS interoperability topics. In this Discovery Session you will learn about the course format, hear from pa...

Vaccine credentials are a hot topic across the IIS community right now. On this AIRA Discovery Session, several experts will share some of the latest efforts being implemented and under development within the US, and key aspects to consider as IIS contemplate ...

A Discovery Session webinar co-hosted by AIRA and the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to discuss efforts to support skilled nursing facilities with IIS enrollment and access. This webinar covers an overview of AHCA outreach and technical assistance eff...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding onboarding long-term care facilities

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Basic and Complete Validation for Data Quality Incoming/Ongoing (DQI)

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association article exploring the use of health plan quality measures specified for electronic clinical data to monitor immunizations

This Discovery Session is an opportunity to learn more about electronic health records (EHRs) from the experts. On this Discovery Session, AIRA is partnering with the HIMSS EHR Association to hear more about the EHR perspective and how IIS can best collaborate...

AIRA Letter and Comments on CMS Proposed Rules

A Discovery Session webinar focused on the Immunization Integration Program (IIP) Acknowledgements Workgroup's experience and ongoing efforts being done to improve data quality. This session highlights an exciting partnership between the IIP, Epic, Vanderbilt ...

A Discovery Session webinar focused on the technical aspects of vaccine credentialing solutions

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS to Medicaid data exchange

A Discovery Session webinar focused on the programmatic aspects of vaccine credentialing solutions

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC's United States Core Data for Interoperability, Version 2

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding consumer access and vaccine credential strategies.

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 data requests.

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 IIS and undocumented immigrants

A Discovery Session webinar focused on COVID-19 hot topics. A combination of updates about IIS-specific COVID-19 hot topics (e.g., data quality for race and ethnicity) and time for questions and community discussion.

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

These talking points are provided as background for IIS in discussing data quality with their state/jurisdiction leadership, their data exchange partners, and their CDC partners

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding capturing race and ethnicity data

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 population group and tier allocation during the ...

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

Discovery Session to hear from AIRA members and partners about the initial “lessons learned” from the first weeks of the COVID-19 vaccine response

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New Mexico Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding information dashboards for COVID-19 vaccine information.

Discovery Session reviewing the 2020 IIS Annual Report (IISAR)

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...