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

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

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

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

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 | AIRA Update

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

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

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

National Meeting Presentation | The Landscape of Interjurisdictional Exchange

National Meeting Presentation | The MQE Tool: Everything You Need to Know

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

National Meeting Presentation | Address Cleansing 2.0: Bringing Cleansed Data Back In

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small in Utah: Identifying Immunization Pockets Of Need: Small Area Analysis of IIS Data To Detect Undervaccinated Populations

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Plan (QPP) and Promoting Interoperability proposed rule

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding integrating electronic disease surveillance systems into their IIS

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce two new guides for the IIS community that will be released very soon - IIS Data Quality Practices: To Monitor and Evaluate Data at Rest and Identifying Immunization Pockets of Need:...

Highlights from the AIRA 2018 National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

National Meeting | 2018 Agenda with links to presentations

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

The session focused on “Getting the Most out of Your Project Management Tools and Resources” and included presentations considering project management from three different vantage points

Webinar | AIRA’s Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new AIRA website and ten helpful tips for using the website

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New Jersey Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding official immunization forms

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 HEDIS requests

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

Webinar | AIRA’s Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar on IIS helpdesk functionality. Speakers from Minnesota, California, and New Jersey shared their IIS helpdesk experiences and best practices and highlights from Washington and New York City wer...

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

This session focused on IIS data use, and included presentations from Oregon and North Dakota, two states participating in CDC’s Sentinel Site project

Final AIRA Letter and Comments on the CMS Promoting Interoperability proposed rules

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 SAS coding to determine immunization coverage rates.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patients without an address

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss on the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule

Information about AIRA's geocoding contest, which was created to incentivize participation in SmartyStreets, the no-cost address cleansing and geocoding service available to all IIS programs.

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Measures for Assessment

This document provides guidance for immunization provider sites, and provides best practice recommendations on how to best utilize IIS reports to improve data quality prior to running a vaccination coverage rate assessment.

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

Eric Larson and Nathan Bunker from AIRA discussed new technologies, including FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), and what they mean for the IIS Community.

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

This document contains best practice recommendations from AIRA’s SISC and the CDC on how to structure and populate VXU and RSP messages using specific LOINC codes to include observations such as patient immunity, refusals, indications/contraindications and a...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient inactivation

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 reporting requirements, enforcement, and penalties

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient organization verification for IIS access

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Submission and Query Measures for Validation

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

The first volume of the new IIS Functional Guide on Query and Response was introduced by Eric Larson, AIRA Senior Technical Project Manager and Kevin Snow, Technical Developer at Envision Technology Partners. The longer-term vision will be additional functiona...

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

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC’s DRAFT Trusted Exchange Framework

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

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

The Joint Development and Implementation Initiative held an introductory webinar to engage interested community members in the development of the Message Quality Evaluation Tool, an open source, community-developed tool to assess message quality for incoming H...

Jane Lammers, HL7 Interface Manager with the Nevada IIS shared HL7 Basics focused on how to read an HL7 message. Nathan Bunker from AIRA also previewed more HL7 concepts for an upcoming session.

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the AIRA resource, Comparing & Communicating Vaccination Coverage Estimates from Immunization Information Systems (IIS), the National Immunization Survey (NIS), and Related Assessme...

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