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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

This database contains IIS guidance documents, references for IIS-related articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs) from 1999 to the present. Links are provided for documents produced by the CDC. This data...

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?"

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

Webinar | This Discovery Session provided an overview of the new Security Guidance that summarizes common IIS security issues (e.g., risk analysis and risk management) to help IIS administrators engage in security discussions with IT staff and vendors

Webinar | The Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to present “AFIX-IIS Integration Project – The Good, the Bad and Lessons Learned,” which was selected as one of the standout sessions from the AIRA 2017 National Meeting. CDC described IIS enhan...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wisconsin Division of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the utilization of electronic signatures for VFC renewals and/or enrollment

This document explores the various issues that impact IIS security and provides guidance on industry standards and best practices for addressing common security concerns. This guidance is intended to assist IIS administrators in engaging their IT staff and ven...

This guidance document seeks to clarify how to populate the Acknowledgment Code (MSA-1), the Query Response Status (QAK-2) and the Error Severity (ERR-4) to ensure that all values are in agreement and are appropriate for the outcomes of the processing of the i...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Vermont Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding displaying a patient's mother's name and/or contact information in patient records

Webinar | An introduction of SmartyStreets to the IIS community More context about the Address Cleansing project and how to enroll in it can be found on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

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

Webinar | This Discovery Session featured an epidemiologist from Colorado who shared how they use an open source forecasting tool called the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) within the Colorado IIS

How an IIS can use and integrate the SmartyStreets address cleansing and geocoding service into its organization. Interested IIS can find more information about the service and how to enroll in it on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

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...

Monthly Forum | The Interjurisdictional Community of Practice (CoP) is a monthly forum for sharing various perspectives and working together as a community to address common IIS-IIS data exchange barriers and solutions.

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

Technical Report | Immunisation information systems in the EU and EEA: Results of a survey on implementation and system characteristics

National Meeting Presentation | Closing Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | Wednesday Afternoon Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | Tuesday Afternoon Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | New Member/First-Time Attendee Orientation

National Meeting Presentation | Welcome and Opening Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | Roundtables: Meaningful Use, MIPS & MACRA

National Meeting Presentation | Implementing Health Factors (HALO) in Immunization Forecasting

National Meeting Presentation | Lessons Learned from Implementing the CDSi Logic

National Meeting Presentation | Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations (CDSi) Comparison: Pilot Study

National Meeting Presentation | Statewide Immunization Reminder & Recall Postcards

National Meeting Presentation | Use of a Biannual Customer Service Survey to Improve IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Development and Evaluation of the NJIIS Interoperability Webinar Training

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 | Colorado Vaccine Exemptions: Implementation, Insight, and IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of Linking an IIS and a School Immunization Compliance Database

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-IIS Data Exchange: A Nice Idea or New Standard of Practice?

National Meeting Presentation | Establishing Data Linkages for Targeted Immunization Data Analyses

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Your IIS to Vaccinate Refugees

National Meeting Presentation | Linking IIS and Clinical Databases to Assess HPV Vaccine Effectiveness

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

Use of IIS for Determining Compliance with School Vaccination Requirements

National Meeting Presentation | WAIIS School Module Rollout: Communication, Training, and Collaboration

National Meeting Presentation | School House Rocks: Use of Roster Data in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of 9vHPV Vaccine Introduction on HPV Vaccination in North Carolina

National Meeting Presentation | Pnowing About Pneumococcal—An Inquiry into Vaccine Coding and Use

National Meeting Presentation | Measuring Maternal Vaccination Rates: Comparison of Two Methods

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Data Quality Tool: Transformation to a General Purpose Open- Source Tool

National Meeting Presentation | Patient Deduplication in Massachusetts: An Algorithm and a Tool

National Meeting Presentation | Monitoring Data Quality— the Hows and Whys

Journal | This Eurosurveillance issue features articles including an editorial on the importance of immunization registries, an update about the measles outbreak in Belgium, and research about the effectiveness of the varicella vaccine among others. Eurosurvei...

National Meeting Presentation | Assuring Correctness and Consistency in AFIX-IIS Coverage Implementation

National Meeting Presentation | Interstate Collaboration on an AFIX-IIS Integration Project

National Meeting Presentation | AFIX Implementation Improvement Journey: Lessons from Eastern Washington

National Meeting Presentation | Understanding the NIS and Its Relationship with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluating the Feasibility of Using IIS as a Sample Frame for the NIS

National Meeting Presentation | Estimating U.S. National Vaccination Coverage Using IIS Sentinel Site Data

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 | Immunized on Time? Impact of Household Dynamics on Childhood Immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Everyday Uses for IIS Data

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small: Strategies for Identifying Local Pockets of Need

National Meeting Presentation | Managing Business Rules & Decisions: Making Knowledge Explicit

National Meeting Presentation | Coming Attraction: Vaccine Code Sets Management Service Center

National Meeting Presentation | Considerations for an IIS Implementing National Drug Codes

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