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National Meeting Presentation: ImmuNet User Interface and Navigation Redesign

National Meeting Presentation | Improved Business Workflow for Onboarding Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Offline Patient and Vaccination Capture

National Meeting Presentation | Partnering for Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Provider Report Cards: Improving Timeliness of Vaccination Entry to an IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Utilization of Manage Patient Status in NYSIIS to Improve Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | When Disaster Strikes!

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Plan (QPP) and Promoting Interoperability proposed rule

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding integrating electronic disease surveillance systems into their IIS

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:...

Highlights from the AIRA 2018 National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

National Meeting | 2018 Agenda with links to presentations

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

The session focused on “Getting the Most out of Your Project Management Tools and Resources” and included presentations considering project management from three different vantage points

Webinar | AIRA’s Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new AIRA website and ten helpful tips for using the website

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

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

Webinar | AIRA’s Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar on IIS helpdesk functionality. Speakers from Minnesota, California, and New Jersey shared their IIS helpdesk experiences and best practices and highlights from Washington and New York City wer...

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

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

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

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss on the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule

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.

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Measures for Assessment

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

Eric Larson and Nathan Bunker from AIRA discussed new technologies, including FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), and what they mean for the IIS Community.

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 IIS support models

This document contains best practice recommendations from AIRA’s SISC and the CDC on how to structure and populate VXU and RSP messages using specific LOINC codes to include observations such as patient immunity, refusals, indications/contraindications and a...

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

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

External Link | A collection of specialized tools and apps that support public health practice maintained by the Mid Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

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

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Submission and Query Measures for Validation

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

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

CDC has released its 2018-2020 CDC Immunization Information Systems Strategic Plan. The new plan supports the advancement of IISs by focusing on four strategic priorities: enhancing IIS performance, sustaining the IIS community, influencing and monitoring the ...

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.

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

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...

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...

Jane Lammers, HL7 Interface Manager with the Nevada IIS shared HL7 Basics focused on how to read an HL7 message. Nathan Bunker from AIRA also previewed more HL7 concepts for an upcoming session.

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’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 | Representatives from AIRA and Michigan provided an overview about considerations for high-priority intra-agency partnerships and shared experiences in creating partnerships between the IIS and vital records, WIC, Medicaid, newborn screening and other...

This document provides recommendations to adequately prepare IIS Trainers with the skills and knowledge needed to perform their roles