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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 ONC's United States Core Data for Interoperability, Version 2

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

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 ...

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.

A Discovery Session webinar focusing on the Data at Rest (DAR) pilot project and the data quality tools available to IIS to monitor data quality by provider

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Utah Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding immunizations designated as shared decision on immunization forecast reports

Overview of the three stages of the IIS Measurement and Improvement process developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW)

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

National Meeting Presentation | Ask EHR Experts About IIS & Electronic Health Records

National Meeting Presentation | Measurement & Improvement: From Transport to Decision Support, All Your Questions Answered

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 from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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 | A Dashboard for Tracking Progress Toward Achieving the IIS Functional Standards

National Meeting Presentation | Developing Immunisation Information System Functional Standards for Zambia

National Meeting Presentation | Lessons Learned from Developing Functional Standards for Electronic Immunization Information Systems in Kenya

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 | Cloud-Based Solutions: A Good Option for Hosting CDS for Immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Comparative Analysis of AFIX-IIS Tools

National Meeting Presentation | Conquering the Challenges of CDSi

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 | Immunization Calculation Engine: An Open Source Option for Immunization Forecasting

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 | Use and Impact of Clinical Decision Support for Immunization Resources

National Meeting Presentation | Get SMaRT (AFIX)!

National Meeting Presentation | Ongoing Data Quality Review of Incoming Electronic Data Using a Web-Based Tool

National Meeting Presentation | Scaling 2D Vaccine Barcode Scanning

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

National Meeting Presentation | Bloomer Awards

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 | IIS System Enhancements: Value of Sharing Across Projects

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

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.

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

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.

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 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

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 | Roundtables: Meaningful Use, MIPS & MACRA

National Meeting Presentation | Using NIST Tools for Evaluation of Immunization CDS Systems

National Meeting Presentation | CDSi Version 3.0: Updates and Enhancements

National Meeting Presentation | The Forest, Not the Trees: Integrating CDSi into the Immunization Landscape

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

National Meeting Presentation | Using an IIS to Build Customized Recommendations for Ordering Flu Vaccine

National Meeting Presentation | ICE Update: Product Governance, Roadmap, and Use

National Meeting Presentation | Cloud-Based IIS Hosting Solutions: Perks, Perils, and Pitfalls

National Meeting Presentation | An Update on Two-Dimensional (2D) Vaccine Barcoding

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...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a centralized repository for public health agencies and clinical data registries

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 | Something Old, New, Measured and Blue: Current Uses and Future Plans for the Functional Standards

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