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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 Basic and Complete Validation for Data Quality Incoming/Ongoing (DQI)

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding combinations of CVX and Reaction Code

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on proposed rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medica...

Preparing your IIS for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and the use of 2015 certified EHR products is a long and complex process, but the judicious use of available tools and resources will help ease the transition. This document aims to outline some of the steps requir...

The readiness checklist for IIS to use to ensure they meet Meaningful Use Stage 3 technical and operational requirements was updated in 2019 to meet “Promoting Interoperability” Incentive Program requirements.

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 contraindication for all vaccines

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC 2019 Standards Advisory

National Meeting Presentation | Updates on Branch Strategies for Success in an Interconnected Era

National Meeting Presentation | Documentation Diaries: Minnesota’s Approach to IIS Documentation

National Meeting Presentation | Nebraska’s Parkinson’s Disease Registry and NESIIS

National Meeting Presentation | The Interjurisdictional Hub Project

National Meeting Presentation | Electronic Health Record Query-Response: Building on Our Success

National Meeting Presentation | The MQE Tool: Everything You Need to Know

National Meeting Presentation | Advances in EHR/IIS Interoperability by Select Immunization Programs

National Meeting Presentation | EHR Immunization Recognition – Off to the Races

National Meeting Presentation | Health Level 7 Implementation Guide: Current and Future States

National Meeting Presentation | New Tools and Services to Manage, Access, and Integrate Vaccine Data Standards

National Meeting Presentation | Registry View: How EHRs can contribute to IIS Success

National Meeting Presentation | Two Sides of a Coin: Interoperability from the IIS and Provider Viewpoints

National Meeting Presentation | Strategies to Improve Provider Access to US Refugee Vaccination Records

National Meeting Presentation | Cutting the Queue: Colorado’s Continual Onboarding Process Improvements

National Meeting Presentation | Data Exchange Dashboard Makes Onboarding Easier and Data Quality Better

National Meeting Presentation | Improved Business Workflow for Onboarding Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Offline Patient and Vaccination Capture

National Meeting Presentation | Partnering for Data Quality

Final AIRA Letter and Comments on the CMS Promoting Interoperability proposed rules

This guidance clarifies the process and sets expectations for management of varied vaccine lot numbers, and shares the results of a survey of vaccine manufacturers regarding their practices in assigning Unit of Sale and Unit of Use lot numbers using a pattern,...

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

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

This course builds on HL7 Basics to dive deeper into how HL7 works. Learners will explore conformance, constraints, and message profiles. We'll also cover how the Implementation Guide constrains the HL7 standard, how local specifications are set up, and how co...

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

AIRA and CDC staff answer the question: What is the right way to structure a bi-directional response message (RSP^K11) when the query matches to a patient who has requested that their data be protected?"

Document | This position statement is focused on the IIS community moving toward sunsetting HL7 2.3.1 interfaces. This is meant to serve as a tool for IIS working with EHRs to communicate the consensus recommendation on dates by which HL7 2.3.1 interfaces will...

National Meeting Presentation | Shared Services: The Benefits of Working Together

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

National Meeting Presentation | Coming Attraction: Vaccine Code Sets Management Service Center

National Meeting Presentation | Considerations for an IIS Implementing National Drug Codes

National Meeting Presentation | Out in the Wild - Practical Use of Bidirectional

National Meeting Presentation | What Error? Where’s My ACK?

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

National Meeting Presentation | HPV Roundtable Report: Issues with EHR and IIS in HPV Vaccination

National Meeting Presentation | From EHR Immunization Requirements to a Validation and Recognition Program

National Meeting Presentation | All We Need to Know We Learned in Kindergarten

Document | This resource from the AIRA Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee is to notify the IIS community about vaccine serial numbers being newly embedded into 2D barcode data. The goal of this notice is to raise other critical data elements wit...

This Health IT dashboard shows the percent of hospitals in active engagement with a public health agency to submit electronic public health data in 2015

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | Using Quality Assurance Tools to Improve HL7 Reporting to NYC's Citywide Immunization Registry

National Meeting Presentation | Using NIST Tools to Advance Interoperability for Immunization Messaging Implementations

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Immunization Data Exchange Interface in Wisconsin

National Meeting Presentation | Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in an Evaluation of HL7 Message Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Development of an Approach to Evaluate HL7 Message Success Across Multi-Level Pathways

National Meeting Presentation | The Quest for the Best: Establishing a Data Quality Protocol and Tools for Incoming Data

National Meeting Presentation | No Pain, No Gain: Using Quality Improvement Processes to Improve Program Efficiency

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluating IIS Address Data Quality following HL7 Implementation by a Retail Pharmacy Chain

National Meeting Presentation | Comparing IIS and Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS) Data to Improve IIS Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability With Unconventional Systems

National Meeting Presentation | Plenary: Assessment and Interoperability Testing Update

Article | An evaluation of the impact of EHR interoperability on the quality of immunization data in the North Dakota IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of PPHF Funding on HL7 Message Quality in VT

National Meeting Presentation | Raising the Bar on HL7 Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Health Level 7 Web Service Search Success Rates in New York City’s Citywide Immunization Registry

National Meeting Presentation | California’s Immunization Gateway Portal: Fulfilling Business Needs by Simplifying Interoperability

National Meeting Presentation | Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap: What It Means for IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Challenges with (and a Few Solutions to) the Increased Dependency on HL7

National Meeting Presentation | Options for IIS and EHR Feature Overlap

National Meeting Presentation | Using IGAMT–Lite to Create A Local HL7 V2.5.1 Message Profile

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Regions and the State: Partnering to Implement HL7 Onboarding in Michigan

National Meeting Presentation | Interoperability With IIS: Can It Be Extended to Schools?

National Meeting Presentation | Applied Use of Bidirectional Exchanges: A Case Study of Rockwood Clinic

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Bidirectional Query Exchange Work Group

National Meeting Presentation | Electronic Health Record (EHR) Interoperability with the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR): Progress to Date

National Meeting Presentation | Connecting to IIS Using an Open Source Software Application

National Meeting Presentation | On-boarding Large Provider Groups & Healthcare Systems – Unique Issues and Lessons Learned

National Meeting Presentation | Integrating Data Quality as an Essential Element of Interoperability

National Meeting Presentation | Electronic Medical Record – IIS Interoperability: Balancing Provider Recruitment with Data Quality Needs

National Meeting Presentation | Interoperability: Onboarding Providers via Incident Command System – The Texas Experience

National Meeting Presentation | Meeting Stage 2 Meaningful Use Challenges and Automated Solutions

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability Status Check

This report reviews the IIS Interoperability Status Check project, designed to connect with IIS across the US, submit sample MU Stage 2 messages, and verify that the messages can be accepted

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging a Multi-State Collaborative for Developing Immunization Information System Enhancements: An Evolving Model

National Meeting Presentation | Automating Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration

National Meeting Presentation | Navigating the Challenges of HL7 Data Exchange: What They Should Send, What They Could Send, What They Do Send

National Meeting Presentation | Continuing Evolution: California’s Two- pronged Approach to IIS and Interoperability