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This document suggests a prioritized path for IIS to better align with the M&I Initiative that is supported by both CDC and AIRA. The links within the document for each step will bring up Validation Reports that display IIS results. None of these steps should ...

The purpose of this guidance document is to share considerations and data sharing methods that may be helpful in facilitating the exchange of data between clinical trial sites and their respective jurisdictional IIS

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

In March 2022, AIRA submitted community comments on the updated HEDIS Adult Immunization measures

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) drafted the Vaccines Federal Implementation Plan 2021–2025 as a companion document to the Vaccines National Strategic Plan 2021–2025. The OIDP invited st...

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 AIRA Discovery Session discusses a new initiative - Epidemiology Shared Services (ESS)! IIS data analysts have unique needs which are dynamic and evolving. AIRA has heard the pain points from the data analyst community and has been working on ways to addr...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding implementing text message reminders

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

This AIRA Discovery Session discusses important changes to the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART). These improvements will bring more clarity to how your IIS supports community standards and help IIS leadership better understand the Measurement and Impro...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS read-only access

In late January 2022, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging N...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding missing patient-reported doses

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the electronic signature of parents/patients as consent

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding student vaccine exemption requests

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding data governance/data exchange usage policies

This session is a review of important resources and initiatives from 2021 and a look forward at what is coming in 2022. The webinar is an opportunity to hear about activities at AIRA and initiatives at the national level that may affect your IIS program.

Future of Personal Health article regarding the access and sharing of vaccination records

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding records correction requests

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

Describes the process of summarizing acknowledgement messages (ACKs) in aggregate reports produced by IIS, EHRs and third-parties. ACKs are most helpful when they are summarized, reviewed and acted upon. The information contained within acknowledgment reports ...

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

National Meeting Presentation | The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): Its Impact on Data Sharing by Schools

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 a Mobile App to Improve Pertussis Vaccination Data Quality and Reporting to an IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Top Ten Reasons to Invest in Immunization Program-IIS Integration

National Meeting Presentation | A Community Conversation about Interjurisdictional Exchange

National Meeting Presentation | Incremental IIS Roll Out: Delivering Tailored Customer Service for Transitioning Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Data Migration Lessons Learned, Data Quality Opportunities for Data at Rest

National Meeting Presentation | Migrating to a New IIS: The Story of Oklahoma's Success

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

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Coverage Rates Using IIS: Collaborating to Overcome Barriers

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

National Meeting Presentation | Introduction to MIROW's Consolidation of Demographic and Immunization Information in IIS

National Meeting Presentation | New and Existing Acquisition Mechanisms to Support IIS Strategic Initiatives

National Meeting Presentation | Immunize Washington — Taking Public-Private Partnerships to the Next Level With Health Plans

National Meeting Presentation | Helping IIS Stakeholders Help Themselves! Driving Daily Business Processes With Self-Serve Resources

National Meeting Presentation | Mitigating Risk With High Impact Stakeholders

National Meeting Presentation | Matching Enhances IIS Data — Assessing Tdap Uptake During Pregnancy in Washington State

National Meeting Presentation | Characteristics Associated With Michigan Children Under-immunized in Their First Year of Life

National Meeting Presentation | Using Existing Disease Reporting to Publicize Registry Influenza Immunization Tracking in Oregon

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 | Michigan’s Ongoing Data Improvement Plan

National Meeting Presentation | Wisconsin Immunization Registry Report Cards: Providing IIS Data Quality Feedback to Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Approaches to Increasing Reporting of Adult Immunizations in the NDIIS

National Meeting Presentation | Applying Joint Development Strategies to Meet Unique Community Needs — the Pacific Island Experience

National Meeting Presentation | Agile Philosophy and Its Application Within Software Development in the IIS Community

National Meeting Presentation | “Keeping Up” in a Turbulent Environment: Successful Strategies for IIS Sustainability

National Meeting Presentation | Practical Use of a Data Quality Protocol

National Meeting Presentation | Knowledge and Use of IIS Among a National Network of Physician Primary-care Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Local Health Department Use of Immunization Information Systems