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Webinar | The AIRA Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar on IIS HL7 101: Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Immunization Messaging

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.

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Insight: Virginia’s Provider Report Card Elevating Quality in VIIS (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the...

A COVID-19 Interim Debrief Summary from the 2021 AIRA National Meeting

Webinar | The Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to highlight the ways IIS are being integrated into immunization programs in Oregon, North Dakota and New York City

This document serves to draw all current interjurisdictional exchange activities together to define a process and goals for administration and coordination among AIRA’s membership

Webinar | This session provided an overview of Meaningful Use including the major players and their roles, major milestones and the responsibilities of IIS in Meaningful Use

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability Roundup (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commentary and discussion...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability Status Check

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability With Unconventional Systems

Webinar | This webinar, hosted by the AIRA Education Steering Committee, was geared toward IIS managers and staff to learn tips for increasing inventory data quality, decrementing on-hand inventory with EHR data, reconciling inventory, and documenting returns ...

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

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 ...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding Wisconsin's request for information pertaining to the maintenance of vaccine lot numbers by IIS

Summary of the IIS Measurement and Improvement process developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW)

Overview of the three stages of the IIS Measurement and Improvement process developed by the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Workgroup (MACAW)

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Measures of Childhood Vaccination Coverage: The Role of Standardization (Please note: These presentation slides are intended as supporting materials for presentations delivered at the AIRA 2026 National Meeting and may be...

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...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS of the Future: Where Might All This Be Going?

National Meeting Presentation | IIS on FHIR: A New Era of IIS Interoperability (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral comment...

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

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...

The IIS Orientation to Provider Onboarding: Resources Checklist serves as a starting point for staff who are new to an IIS onboarding role and/or are new to interoperability as it relates to immunization messaging

This one-pager provides an overview of the Data at Rest (DAR) content area available as part of the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) initiative testing and recognition program. This one-pager is intended as a promotional brief and provides at-a-glance details...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Platform or Module Migration – Is Your Program Prepared?

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the New York State Immunization Information System (NYSIIS) team's request for information regarding the IIS platforms that are used for tr...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Policies and Agreements: Tools That Help You Do Your Job Better

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...

IIS Product Testing and Validation is an annual process that provides IIS technology partners with objective, independent testing of their platform as they make improvements to achieve alignment with community-selected measures and tests. Product testing will ...

Webinar | This webinar, hosted by the AIRA Education Steering Committee, discussed the basics of IIS project management including the basics of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and an overview of project management process groups and knowledge areas....

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Project Management – Best Practices, Lessons Learned from the Field

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 sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding flat file uploads and the enhancement of reporting systems

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

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Regions and the State: Partnering to Implement HL7 Onboarding in Michigan

This document builds upon the previous implementation guide and provides a more in-depth exploration of address cleansing for IIS programs. The document also provides guidance for reintegrating validated and standardized addresses and geocodes back into IIS

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Response to an Increase in Vaccine Fraud Reports in New York City (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the ac...

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to highlight unique IIS school and childcare functionality in the community. An overview of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was provided, and speakers from Oregon, Washingt...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Sentinel Site Contributions to Pandemic Preparedness and Response Planning

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

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Supplement Health Insurance Claims for Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without ...

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

National Meeting Presentation | IIS System Enhancements: Value of Sharing Across Projects

Webinar | This webinar, hosted by the AIRA Education Steering Committee, featured speakers from Texas and Nevada who highlighted different approaches to integrate evaluation features into IIS training. Texas shared their online training and explained the benef...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Use Before and After COVID Pandemic in Community Health Centers: Back to Basics (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete ...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Use to Support Meningococcal Serogroup B Outbreak Response in San Diego

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS user account management

One-page overview of the launch of 2024 digital recognition badges to acknowledge IIS achievement of at least Basic Validation in one content area of the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) initiative.

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

Webinar | This session, hosted by the AIRA Education Steering Committee, featured Angel Aponte (NYC) and Nathan Bunker (AIRA) who discussed IIS web services including real-time integration using Microsoft.net software development technologies and Java

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Workforce Development: Findings from Building Training Across Functions and for Specific Roles

National Meeting Presentation | IIS – National Immunization Survey Integration Update (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying ora...

Common areas of variability for IIS-EHR interoperability based on jurisdictional law and policy

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-EHR Partnerships: Providing and Displaying Immunizations and Clinical Decision Support in EHRs

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

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-National Immunization Survey Integration Update (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral co...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-NIS Integration and Match Projects: The IIS Experience

National Meeting Presentation | Illinois and Chicago IIS’ AIRA TA Participation (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral comm...

National Meeting Presentation | Illinois Public Vaccine Dashboard: Helping Residents Locate Free Vaccines (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without th...

National Meeting Presentation | Illuminating IIS Engagement in Puerto Rico (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commentary ...

National Meeting Presentation: ImmuNet User Interface and Navigation Redesign

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

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE): An Open-Source Immunization Decision Support System for Integration with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine: An Open Source Option for Immunization Forecasting

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine: An Open-Source Immunization Decision Support System for Integration with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Clinical Decision Support: A Status Check (Please note: These presentation slides are intended as supporting materials for presentations delivered at the AIRA 2026 National Meeting and may be incomplete without t...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Dashboards: Catalysts for Informed Decision-Making (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompan...

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

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Data Exchange with NYC Managed Care Organizations via HL7 (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the a...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Data Quality Certification Program (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commen...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Deduplication: A Program Developed in New York City to Reduce Duplicate Immunizations

Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting is a course intended to improve the way all IIS staff interact with their forecasting systems or functionality so that staff can better troubleshoot user questions, onboard providers, advocate for systems changes, and w...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting During COVID-19 (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying or...

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

AIRA webinar designed to help increase your knowledge about immunization information systems (IIS), also known as immunization registries. This session will cover IIS functionality and standards, policies, the impact of COVID-19 on IIS, and how data in IIS ma...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Information System Assessment, Ghana 2016

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guides in English, Spanish and French

This document sets forth the IIS Functional Standards and Operational Guidance Statement (OGS) to guide the direction and progress of IISs over the next five years.

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide

Document | This resource is designed to be read by programmatic, technical, and operational experts who are involved in creating or maintaining an IIS. The document intends to bridge the gap between technical and program staff so they can have a mutual underst...

The American Immunization Registry Association created these key messages and talking points to use as you answer questions or talk about the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act with agency leadership, legislators, etc

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Programs Have a Seat and Voice at the Data Modernization Table (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without ...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Registry Data for Community Vaccine Up-to-Date Status and its Correlation with Disease

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Registry Reporting Among Non-Federal Acute Care Hospitals (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the a...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Registry Representativeness Study: A Unique Opportunity for a No-Mandate State (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are inc...

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Software Evaluation – Coordinating EHRs and IIS’

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | Immunized on Time? Impact of Household Dynamics on Childhood Immunizations

ImmuSMART: IIS/Community Pharmacy Interventions

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

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on IIS-Based Denominators in Vermont (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the acco...

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of Data Exchange Partners on Michigan Immunization Data Quality (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the a...

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of HL7 Messaging on Retail Pharmacy Data Quality During Influenza Season