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AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New Mexico Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding information dashboards for COVID-19 vaccine information.

AIRA recognizes there are unique data elements required for COVID-19 vaccine administration and reporting that will impact IIS and providers in your jurisdictions. We have some “Week One” tips about documenting COVID-19 vaccine administration to both help ...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Discovery Session reviewing the 2020 IIS Annual Report (IISAR)

The IISAR is an annual survey that assesses immunization program performance in developing, maintaining, and enhancing Immunization Information Systems for a given calendar year. It is a reporting requirement for the 64 immunization programs that receive fundi...

These links and documents have been compiled to assist the immunization community in their COVID-19 planning and preparation. This list may not be complete and will likely be updated frequently as new information is released. We also encourage you to check CDC...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

The Immunization Integration Program (IIP) Collaborative, comprised of leaders representing clinicians, electronic health record (EHR) developers, health information exchanges (HIEs), immunization information systems (IISs), and other public health agencies, g...

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

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

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.

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

The IIS Migration Toolkit guides IIS staff through transitioning to a new technology platform, or any other large-scale IIS project. Included tools touch on topics like staffing, communications, training, testing and more. This toolkit was developed by the Pub...

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about IIS community success, data at rest pilots, and Measurement and Improvement (M&I) 2020 Validation recognition If you are interested in listening to a recording of this webinar, please email info@imm...

The IIS Operations Tools page empowers IIS staff to navigate the various processes involved in managing and maintaining the day-to-day operations of a well functioning IIS. This set of tools was developed by the Public Health Informatics Institute with input f...

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how electronic immunization registries are used all over the globe to track and improve immunization rates worldwide

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about IIS operations and security

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about on bolstering the IIS end user experience

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about using IIS data to improve immunization rates and public health

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygienge to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding tools or applications IIS are using to administer PODs and streamline the report...

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about several data quality initiatives throughout the IIS community

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how the IZ Gateway project is being used in pandemic response

An orientation session designed to help IIS get started with Smarty

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: CDC leadership shares their vision for advancing IIS together, with Q&A after the panel discussion

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Data Use Agreement with APHL (Association of Public Health Laboratories) for participation in both IZ Gateway Connect and IZ Gateway Share (updated August 3, 2020)

A Discovery Session webinar focusing on how data analytics can help IIS prepare for the challenges ahead such as a COVID vaccine, expanded flu season and catchup of routine immunizations

Mini-series to promote and support the use of AART as a means for IIS to more quickly and efficiently align with national standards and priorities.

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

AIRA-AIM joint Education Steering Committee webinar regarding supporting high levels of immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic

This document provides a fillable form for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for secure, electronic exchange of immunization information among governmental entities that operate a population-based immunization information system (IIS)

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss Acknowledgment (ACK) Processing Rules and Proposed 2021 Submission & Acknowledgment Validation including NDC Measures 15 an...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

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

As immunization programs and immunization information systems (IIS) prepare to support pandemic response vaccination efforts, there is a need for decision-makers to ensure IIS policies do not inhibit data exchange and reporting. This one-sheet resource highlig...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the California Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding temporary names for newborns.

Webinar highlighting a new resource, Vaccine Code Set Considerations: If Only It Were Rocket Science

This document provides a general overview of vaccine code sets and also briefly describe how code sets are used in support of multiple and varied IIS functions, including electronic data exchange with EHRs and other health information systems, and vaccine orde...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding electronic IIS and VFC enrollment.

A national strategy for a novel COVID-19 vaccine rollout is currently being developed. In the interim, there are things that all immunization programs and immunization information systems (IIS) can do to better prepare for pandemic vaccination. This one-sheet ...

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

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 the validation and population of missing phone numbers in an IIS

Webinar focused on lessons learned from H1N1 and how they are informing the response to COVID-19

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

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to highlight using IIS to support an outbreak response

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding challenges related to enrolling in or using the IIS for providers that are not currently enrolled

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

IIS Vendor Product Validation frequently asked questions developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW) through the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Initiative

AIRA's newsletter about the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS across the country

Webinar focused on the IIS/NIS (National Immunization Survey) Match Project

AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to highlight how IIS programs made the leap from collecting and maintaining their data to actively using their data

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding provider organization level report cards/data quality reports

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

A 3-part webinar series hosted by AIRA and researchers at the University of Colorado describes a toolkit on conducting centralized reminder/recall. Several IIS also share their experiences with implementing and sustaining reminder/recall using their IIS. Centr...

Provider organization participation and tools for provider management

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

The latest updates on the 2019 IIS Annual Report

In 2019, the AIRA Education Steering Committee assessed the educational needs of the IIS community. This report includes an analysis of the results, which will be used to guide the development of new resources and educational opportunities

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed measures for Incoming/Ongoing Data, CDS Assessment Thresholds, and CDS Validation

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

Webinar | This webinar was hosted by the AIRA Education Steering Committee and featured Mary Beth Kurilo (OR) who provided an overview of AIRA's support of standardization, sharing, and systems

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA

National Meeting Presentation | North Dakota Immunization Information System Vaccine Ordering and Inventory Management

National Meeting Presentation | Using Our Power for Good: Colorado’s Transition to an ExIS State

National Meeting Presentation | VTrckS ExIS: Successes and Future Direction

National Meeting Presentation | Using the Citywide Immunization Registry for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Lessons Learned from the H1N1 Vaccination Campaign and Preparing for Future Pandemics

National Meeting Presentation | Optimizing Acceptance Testing

National Meeting Presentation | With Today’s Rapidly Changing IIS Requirements, it’s Not Just About the Software Anymore

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 | The Role of AIRA in Achieving IIS Success

National Meeting Presentation | North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR, Inc.) Experiences with Cancer Registry Certification

National Meeting Presentation | Do you have IIS Training Questions? Ask AIRA!

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Business Rules Approach for Advancement of IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Bogotá: Ensuring Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Putting the “Quality” back in Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Kansas IIS Data Quality Pilot Project

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

National Meeting Presentation | Extend Your Immunization Efforts with Mobile Technology

National Meeting Presentation | Statewide Consumer Access to Immunization Records: Louisiana’s Implementation of a Web-Based, Nationally-Capable System

National Meeting Presentation | Reaching Families Electronically through the Washington State Immunization Information System

National Meeting Presentation | Colorado IIS (CIIS) Training Strategies for Reminder/Recall

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Vaccine Accountability: A Case Study of Group Health Cooperative

National Meeting Presentation | Factors Associated with Medical Provider Reporting of Pediatric Vaccination History to IIS: Results from the National Immunization Survey, 2006-2010

National Meeting Presentation | Integrating Multiple Statewide Public Health Programs

National Meeting Presentation | Building a Sustainable Path Together: Immunization Reporting through HIEs in Colorado