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AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Virginia Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding reporting administered doses.

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session focused on VTrckS and IIS, and involved an encore presentation of a stellar session from the AIRA 2017 National Meeting. Jessica Rao from NYCCIR presented on using VTrckS data for data quality, Jacy Fitzpatrick from STC pr...

National Meeting Presentation | Hands-On with IIS Training Solutions & Workforce Development

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Immunization Information Systems for Performance Measurement

ImmuSMART: IIS/Community Pharmacy Interventions

National Meeting Presentation | Pharmacy Immunization: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask

National Meeting Presentation | Inter-IIS Collaboration: Lessons from the CDC Denominator Inflation Project

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 | NDIIS Collaboration with Other Public Health Programs

National Meeting Presentation | IIS and VFC Working Together to Effectively Lean Engineer Enrollment

National Meeting Presentation | MN Staffing Model for IIS Integrating Vaccines for Children Functionality

National Meeting Presentation | Consumer Connections to IIS Records: A Spectrum of Approaches and Results

National Meeting Presentation | Making Your Next IIS Upgrade More Manageable

National Meeting Presentation | Everybody In? Let's Update the IIS Functional Standards Together

National Meeting Presentation | CAIR Before and After: The Evolution of Implementing a New State IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Back to the Future: How New IIS Transported Kentucky into 2016

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

National Meeting Presentation | A Multi-State Consortium to Improve IIS Training & Education

National Meeting Presentation | Consumer Communication Could Be Key to Improving Immunization Rates

National Meeting Presentation | The AFIX-IIS Integration Project—The Good, the Bad and Lessons Learned

National Meeting Presentation | MIROW: Community Input on Strategic Planning for IIS Best Practices

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS Data to Monitor Uptake in Adult Immunization Recommendations

National Meeting Presentation | Increasing Adult Data in an IIS: Adult Providers, Pharmacies, and Beyond

National Meeting Presentation | Update on Adult Vaccinations and Immunization Information Systems, 2015

National Meeting Presentation | Expanded Use of VTrckS Data for IIS Data Quality and Improvement

National Meeting Presentation | Usability,Theory to Implementation: A Case Study Improving Vaccine Ordering

Report | The General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization is available. These guidelines for immunization go beyond vaccination recommendations to give providers guidelines on vaccination practice

National Meeting | 2017 Agenda with links to presentations

National Meeting Presentation | Public Health Impact of VTrckS ExIS Implementation

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 written policies for IIS data requests

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

This Addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an IIS describes real-life examples of coverage assessments using IIS data. These examples (from IIS in New York City, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Washington state) provide explan...

Webinar | The AIRA Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar on the CDC Functional Standards. This session featured Jan Hicks-Thomson and Janet Fath from CDC/NCIRD/IISSB and was an introduction to their presentation for the AIRA 2017 National Meeting

Video | SOAP Transition Strategies: Building the Bridge to Success (9:49)

Video | SOAP WSDL 101: Understanding the Key to Interoperability (3:59 min)

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session featured presentations on HEDIS (the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and discussed the development process for HEDIS measures, as well as the contribution of IIS data to the measurement process

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

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...

Webinar | This session provided guidance for drafting and using IIS Business Plans and featured a presentation from Beth Cox (CDC)

Webinar | This webinar introduced the contents of the Data Validation Guide for the IIS Onboarding Process which provides recommendations on data validation within the onboarding process

This guide provides recommendations on the data validation process within onboarding. This is the first resource of a multi-year project that will look at different aspects of IIS data quality

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Washington State Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding funding options to fulfill requests for data

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

Webinar | This session featured a presentation from Envision on their upcoming AFIX-IIS Integration Project.

Toolkit | This planning toolkit provides guidance on preparing to work with Medicaid on securing federal matching funds. Those funds can be used to support IIS readiness for Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchange. The toolkit includes tip sheets and wo...

Tdap and influenza vaccination coverage was assessed among pregnant women in Minnesota. Overall, coverage with Tdap vaccine was 58.2% and with influenza vaccine was 45.9%. Coverage varied based on prenatal care and mother’s race, country of birth or region, ...

This blog discusses how a comprehensive legal framework for cross-jurisdictional data sharing could provide greater impact related to immunizations as well as other areas affecting public health

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

This Discovery Session reviews the 2017 IIS Annual Report (IISAR)

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

Video | A three-minute video on how to use the NIST immunization test suite software to test SOAP connectivity and HL7 immunization messages.

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a community-wide presentation on preparing for Meaningful Use Stage 3

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community-wide meeting on the proposed 2017-2019 AIRA Strategic Plan

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

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

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) hosted a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed IIS assessment measures for submission/acknowledgement and query/response as part of the IIS measurement and improvement pr...

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

Webinar | This session focused on the development methods of agile and waterfall, and the strengths, challenges, and considerations of each

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been charged with developing tools to be used by the EHR certification program. This document provides an overview of the NIST immunization testing tool suite, which is of considerable use to IIS lo...

This document assists IIS as they develop policies and procedures to meet legal requirements for protecting the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality of information in IIS. This describes the impact of major federal laws on IIS including HIPPA and FER...

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

Webinar | This session offered a demonstration of the SMART AFIX tool being created by STC

Video | A nearly four-minute video brief on the history of transport options, culminating in the selection of SOAP web services as the recommended transport for HL7 immunization messaging.

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

Webinar | This session included an overview of the new Confidentiality Guidance that was sent out to the community for review. Comments were due on back to AIRA in August 2016

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

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

Webinar | This session focused on AART, or the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool. AART will be the tool used for IIS Managers/Leads to indicate their participation in IIS assessment and share results of IIS assessment measures

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

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed IIS assessment measures for message transport as part of the IIS measurement and improvement process.

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

Webinar | Representatives from Washington and North Dakota discussed the importance of provider engagement during this session

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar featuring presenters from Michigan, North Dakota and AIM who shared ideas for improving coverage rates using IIS data from an immunization program manager's perspective

Article | Explores the positive impact of data exchange between New York City's IIS and a large hospital network's EHR on immunization coverage

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

Webinar | At this session, representatives from the MIROW Steering Committee talked about the process for MIROW chapter development, and the release of the latest chapter: “Decrementing Inventory via Electronic Data Exchange.”

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide and AIRA 2016 National Meeting Presentation

Webinar | These Q&A sessions were open to anyone in the IIS community to ask any questions or hear about what others are finding useful about the AART tool

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

National Meeting Presentation | How IIS Can Support Pharmacies and How Pharmacies Support IIS: A Collection of Stories

National Meeting Presentation | AFIX Coverage Service: Pre-Calculating Statistics to Support New and Future AFIX Guidance and Improve Report Performance

National Meeting Presentation | The Vaccine Safety Datalink and IIS: Evaluation of IIS Data

National Meeting Presentation | Let's Get Along: Automatic Decrementing of Inventory Demonstrates IIS Functionality Interdependency

National Meeting Presentation | Managing the Inventory Funding Source and Patient Eligibility Equation in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | From 0 to 100 in 1 Year: Ramping up Inventory Management and Reporting in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging an IIS to Assist Child Care Centers With Their Annual Immunization Report

National Meeting Presentation | Use of IIS in MN School-Based Mass Vaccination Exercises: Public Health Preparedness Implications