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AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to survey the IIS community about the CDC WSDL

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the relationship between schools and child care facilities and IIS

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding accepting insurance data

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee introduced the IIS Data Quality Practices – Monitoring and Evaluating Data Submissions guide. Webinar speakers included Erin Roche, lead consultant/writer for the guide and former manager of the Minnesota IIS, a...

This resource for the IIS community focuses on the ongoing data monitoring and evaluation process for incoming data submissions

This guide provides practical tips that can be used to help explain vaccination coverage assessment results to decision makers, such as senior public health leadership, legislators, and the media

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding consumer access

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new resource, Practical Examples of IIS Population-based Coverage Assessments. This resource is an addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an II...

Article | This study evaluates the impact of using IIS data to identify unmet vaccination needs in adults seeking the influenza vaccine. The study found a 41.4% increase in the number of vaccines administered, and significant improvements in routinely recomme...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Scientific Technologies Corporation to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding health plans querying IIS

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient active/inactive status

Webinar | This Discovery Session provided an overview of the new Security Guidance that summarizes common IIS security issues (e.g., risk analysis and risk management) to help IIS administrators engage in security discussions with IT staff and vendors

This document explores the various issues that impact IIS security and provides guidance on industry standards and best practices for addressing common security concerns. This guidance is intended to assist IIS administrators in engaging their IT staff and ven...

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 displaying a patient's mother's name and/or contact information in patient records

Webinar | An introduction of SmartyStreets to the IIS community More context about the Address Cleansing project and how to enroll in it can be found on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

Webinar | This Discovery Session featured an epidemiologist from Colorado who shared how they use an open source forecasting tool called the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) within the Colorado IIS

How an IIS can use and integrate the SmartyStreets address cleansing and geocoding service into its organization. Interested IIS can find more information about the service and how to enroll in it on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

National Meeting Presentation | Statewide Immunization Reminder & Recall Postcards

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-IIS Data Exchange: A Nice Idea or New Standard of Practice?

National Meeting Presentation | Establishing Data Linkages for Targeted Immunization Data Analyses

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Your IIS to Vaccinate Refugees

National Meeting Presentation | Linking IIS and Clinical Databases to Assess HPV Vaccine Effectiveness

Use of IIS for Determining Compliance with School Vaccination Requirements

National Meeting Presentation | School House Rocks: Use of Roster Data in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of 9vHPV Vaccine Introduction on HPV Vaccination in North Carolina

National Meeting Presentation | Pnowing About Pneumococcal—An Inquiry into Vaccine Coding and Use

National Meeting Presentation | Measuring Maternal Vaccination Rates: Comparison of Two Methods

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Data Quality Tool: Transformation to a General Purpose Open- Source Tool

National Meeting Presentation | Patient Deduplication in Massachusetts: An Algorithm and a Tool

National Meeting Presentation | Monitoring Data Quality— the Hows and Whys

National Meeting Presentation | Understanding the NIS and Its Relationship with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluating the Feasibility of Using IIS as a Sample Frame for the NIS

National Meeting Presentation | Estimating U.S. National Vaccination Coverage Using IIS Sentinel Site Data

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Timeliness and Completeness in the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR)

National Meeting Presentation | Immunized on Time? Impact of Household Dynamics on Childhood Immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Everyday Uses for IIS Data

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small: Strategies for Identifying Local Pockets of Need

National Meeting Presentation | Inter-IIS Collaboration: Lessons from the CDC Denominator Inflation Project

National Meeting Presentation | Benefits of Standard Upload Data Quality Report for Multiple Stakeholders

National Meeting Presentation | Consumer Connections to IIS Records: A Spectrum of Approaches and Results

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS Data to Monitor Uptake in Adult Immunization Recommendations

National Meeting Presentation | Expanded Use of VTrckS Data for IIS Data Quality and Improvement

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 written policies for IIS data requests

This Addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an IIS describes real-life examples of coverage assessments using IIS data. These examples (from IIS in New York City, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Washington state) provide explan...

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session featured presentations on HEDIS (the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and discussed the development process for HEDIS measures, as well as the contribution of IIS data to the measurement process

Webinar | This webinar introduced the contents of the Data Validation Guide for the IIS Onboarding Process which provides recommendations on data validation within the onboarding process

This guide provides recommendations on the data validation process within onboarding. This is the first resource of a multi-year project that will look at different aspects of IIS data quality

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Washington State Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding funding options to fulfill requests for data

This blog discusses how a comprehensive legal framework for cross-jurisdictional data sharing could provide greater impact related to immunizations as well as other areas affecting public health

This document assists IIS as they develop policies and procedures to meet legal requirements for protecting the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality of information in IIS. This describes the impact of major federal laws on IIS including HIPPA and FER...

Webinar | This session included an overview of the new Confidentiality Guidance that was sent out to the community for review. Comments were due on back to AIRA in August 2016

Article | A comparison of the quality of data reported through a real-time HL7 Web Service with data submitted through other methods

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar featuring presenters from Michigan, North Dakota and AIM who shared ideas for improving coverage rates using IIS data from an immunization program manager's perspective

Article | Explores the positive impact of data exchange between New York City's IIS and a large hospital network's EHR on immunization coverage

Webinar | At this session, representatives from the MIROW Steering Committee talked about the process for MIROW chapter development, and the release of the latest chapter: “Decrementing Inventory via Electronic Data Exchange.”

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide and AIRA 2016 National Meeting Presentation

National Meeting Presentation | Integrating Existing Tools to Monitor HL7 Message Quality