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National Meeting Presentation | Measles in Washington: The Impact It Had on the Oregon Immunization Program

National Meeting Presentation | Measurement & Improvement: From Transport to Decision Support, All Your Questions Answered

National Meeting Presentation | Open Source for Immunization Information Systems

National Meeting Presentation | Something Old and Something New: Understanding HL7 Immunization Standards

National Meeting Presentation | The IZ Gateway: Reducing Burden While Improving IIS Completeness Nationwide

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS Data to Estimate National Vaccination Coverage

National Meeting Presentation | Using Michigan's IIS to Monitor Zoster Administration Patterns

National Meeting Presentation | Washington State's Centralized Immunization Reminder Program

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

This guide will help you implement centralized IIS-based reminder/recall, and is primarily designed for people working in public health departments (state and local) or IIS.

AIRA leveraged a community-informed approach to examine current methodologies for the collection of legacy data, as well as data gap monitoring and resolution processes to inform the development of best practice guidance for standardizing and improving data ba...

Considerations for developing Policy for the IIS community, including discussing documentation that is being used in the community and examples to consider when drafting documents

Webinar introducing the repackaged materials from the AIRA Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW) including the repackaged patient status guide and associated materials and the MIROW Common Vocabulary webpage and resources

Patient status is a concept used in immunization information systems to identify the party that is responsibility for vaccination of a patient at a provider organization or geographic jurisdiction level. Active status of a patient with a provider organization ...

In 2017, the MIROW Steering Committee conducted a review of the MIROW process and products and determined that there were certain materials that remained largely consistent between all guides (e.g., MIROW background information and common vocabulary). The comm...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding recording international vaccines

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

This session focused on CDS Assessment in AART and getting the most out of your report

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding vaccine administration errors

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding communication through listservs

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC's TEFCA Draft 2

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Kentucky Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding importing school data

AIRA Letter and Comments on the CMS Patient Access and Interoperability Proposed Rules

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC proposed rules: 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program

This session focused on Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and provided considerations for documentation of service performance measures across IIS and all services that support IIS.

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 responding to the measles outbreak

Mary Beth Kurilo, Policy and Planning Director at AIRA, led a discussion on ONC's Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Draft 2 and AIRA's draft comments.

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

Overview of the recently released Functional Guide Volume 2: CDC Endorsed Data Elements

AIRA sent out an Information Request from HLN Consulting, LLC. to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS who provide access to patients (or their guardians) without provider intermediation

Webinar | An overview of the CDC Provider IIS Participation Community of Practice and sharing ideas for addressing important provider IIS participation issues including onboarding, EHR assistance, data quality, and provider training and outreach

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on proposed rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medica...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding on hold procedures

New and emerging issues from AIRA's vital records partners and a glimpse into vital record exchanges in two states

This commentary discusses how measures for assessing vaccination status and program performance can be redefined and recalculated using data when generated at the health facility level and the implications of the use and availability of electronic individual-l...

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 increasing provider participation

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

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

A team from the Immunization Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reviewed existing methodologies to evaluate health information systems. Methodology was developed to assess electronic immunization registries (EIRs) in low- and middle-income cou...

The latest updates from the Office of the National Coordinator and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer about the latest information on Promoting Interoperability and other Incentive Programs

Preparing your IIS for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and the use of 2015 certified EHR products is a long and complex process, but the judicious use of available tools and resources will help ease the transition. This document aims to outline some of the steps requir...

Webinar | ESC-hosted webinar to introduce the new AIRA guide, Onboarding Consensus-Based Recommendations

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

Demonstration of the new IIS Dashboard

The readiness checklist for IIS to use to ensure they meet Meaningful Use Stage 3 technical and operational requirements was updated in 2019 to meet “Promoting Interoperability” Incentive Program requirements.

The latest updates on the 2018 IIS Annual Report

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding increasing provider participation

The AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly 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.

The IIS Functional Guide series is a new resource within the IIS community that defines the capabilities and requirements an IIS will need in order to enable business functions needed by their end users. The first volume of the IIS Functional Guide focuses on ...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from Texas Department of State Health Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding receiving birth and death files from Vital Statistics

Tip sheet and report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) offering suggestions for ob-gyns, other health care providers, and practice staff on ways to optimize immunization programs in ob-gyn practices and integrate immunizations...

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC report: Strategy on Reducing Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs

AIRA's letter and comments on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health and Disease Prevention proposed Immunization and Infectious Disease (IID) objectives for Healthy People (HP) 2030

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

Collection of IIS history spotlights

Information on CDC’s planning for Provider Onboarding Shared Services and opportunity for CDC to hear from attendees about onboarding topics

This technical guidance from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control collates guiding principles and good practices from all aspects of IIS development and implementation

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts State Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding contraindication for all vaccines

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 importing immunization data from a veterans hospital

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

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

The purpose of the guide is to provide practical guidance on techniques, methodologies, and processes for IIS to use in assessing the quality of data at rest. This data includes demographic and immunization record information that is currently in the live, pro...

The purpose of this AIRA guide is to improve and standardize onboarding. This document is intended for both technical and programmatic staff that make up IIS onboarding teams and program administrators responsible for the allocation of onboarding resources. EH...

Collection of IIS history artifacts

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding contraindication for all vaccines

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 removing imprecise records

Release of the Address Cleansing Reintegration Guide that provides practical guidance on bringing standardized and validated addresses and geocodes back into your IIS

This document combines the original HL7 2.5.1 Release 1.5 Implementation Guide and Release 1.5 Addendum, as well as additional guidance published by AIRA. The purpose of this document is to provide a single document containing essential HL7 information, so tha...

In honor of National Health IT Week, some the innovative ways Immunization Information Systems (IIS) support Public Health and Clinical Medicine were presented

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

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC 2019 Standards Advisory

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

Tools and documents to support the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

This document explores how to use small area analysis to find pockets of need and provides strategies for responding to pockets of need

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

National Meeting Presentation | Updates from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

National Meeting Presentation | #AIRA2018 Recap & Highlights from Roundtable Discussions

National Meeting Presentation | A Global Health Perspective: IIS and the Global Opportunity

National Meeting Presentation | AIRA Update

National Meeting Presentation | Better Immunization Data Initiative

National Meeting Presentation | Future of IIS: Sustainability Strategies

National Meeting Presentation | Updates on Branch Strategies for Success in an Interconnected Era

National Meeting Presentation | Communicating Vaccinations to Public Health Using Mobile Apps 

National Meeting Presentation | Use of an IIS to Improve the Efficiency of Immunization Certificate Check

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

National Meeting Presentation | The Citizen-Centered Smart Vaccination Record of MesVaccins.net

National Meeting Presentation | MIROW Speed Dating: Interactive Session to Get Community Input on the Promotion of Operational Best Practices

National Meeting Presentation | Case Study in the Management of Common IIS Rules, Vocabulary, and Operational Decisions