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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense hardship and suffering across our nation. It continues to test the capacity and resilience of the US public health system and has put great personal and physical strain on the public health workforce. The development of...

A summary of IIS 3.0 Roundtable Discussions from the 2021 AIRA National Meeting

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...

The American Immunization Registry Association has released version 2 of the Vaccine Credentials “Working Guide” that aims to gather and document common terminology and references related to consumer access and vaccine credentials. This guide includes info...

In late January 2022, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging N...

Future of Personal Health article regarding the access and sharing of vaccination records

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 ...

AIRA Discovery Session reviewing the 2021 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 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...

AIRA and its members strongly encourage Immunization Programs and Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to explore and, where allowed by local law and policy, adopt SMART Health Cards for providing consumer access to vaccination records

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 ...

Annals of Family Medicine article regarding the strategies used for maintaining routine vaccination rates.

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...

Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to introduce learners to key concepts related to interoperability and the responsibilities of the IIS. This course includes information about electronic health records, health information excha...

National Meeting Presentation | Oklahoma's IIS Transition - Challenges and Experiences (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2021 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral...

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

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 QR codes

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)

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

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

As part of efforts to support increased capture and utilization of adult vaccination data in IIS, AIRA developed a Landscape Analysis Report to document the challenges, current approaches, and opportunities to capture adult vaccination records. This report was...

A Discovery Session webinar focused on topic areas relevant for all IIS Managers but specifically target new(er) IIS Managers, staff, and those new to the IIS community

AIRA webinar designed to help increase your knowledge about immunization information systems (IIS), also known as immunization registries. This session will cover IIS functionality and standards, policies, the impact of COVID-19 on IIS, and how data in IIS ma...

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

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

This document outlines activities IIS could undertake to support the pandemic response while securing long-term system sustainability

AIRA webinar regarding strategy and support for COVID-19 vaccination supplemental workplan applications

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

Discovery Session reviewing the 2020 IIS Annual Report (IISAR)

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