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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

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

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce two new guides for the IIS community that will be released very soon - IIS Data Quality Practices: To Monitor and Evaluate Data at Rest and Identifying Immunization Pockets of Need:...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New Jersey Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding official immunization forms

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 HEDIS requests

This session focused on IIS data use, and included presentations from Oregon and North Dakota, two states participating in CDC’s Sentinel Site project

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 SAS coding to determine immunization coverage rates.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patients without an address

Six IIS sites, all funding recipients from the CDC Sentinel Site Project, participated in collaborative analyses to identify and measure the effect of Denominator Inflation in their IIS.

Information about AIRA's geocoding contest, which was created to incentivize participation in SmartyStreets, the no-cost address cleansing and geocoding service available to all IIS programs.

This document provides guidance for immunization provider sites, and provides best practice recommendations on how to best utilize IIS reports to improve data quality prior to running a vaccination coverage rate assessment.

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 patient inactivation

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 reporting requirements, enforcement, and penalties

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient organization verification for IIS access

The first volume of the new IIS Functional Guide on Query and Response was introduced by Eric Larson, AIRA Senior Technical Project Manager and Kevin Snow, Technical Developer at Envision Technology Partners. The longer-term vision will be additional functiona...

Draft business case for the IIS Joint Development and Implementation (JDI) Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) tool

Draft overview and functional requirements for the IIS Joint Development and Implementation (JDI) Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) tool

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC’s DRAFT Trusted Exchange Framework

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

The Joint Development and Implementation Initiative held an introductory webinar to engage interested community members in the development of the Message Quality Evaluation Tool, an open source, community-developed tool to assess message quality for incoming H...

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the AIRA resource, Comparing & Communicating Vaccination Coverage Estimates from Immunization Information Systems (IIS), the National Immunization Survey (NIS), and Related Assessme...

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 Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS user account management

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...