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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.

This guidance clarifies the process and sets expectations for management of varied vaccine lot numbers, and shares the results of a survey of vaccine manufacturers regarding their practices in assigning Unit of Sale and Unit of Use lot numbers using a pattern,...

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

Six IIS sites, all funding recipients from the CDC Sentinel Site Project, participated in collaborative analyses to identify and measure the effect of Denominator Inflation in their IIS.

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

External Link | A collection of specialized tools and apps that support public health practice maintained by the Mid Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

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

CDC has released its 2018-2020 CDC Immunization Information Systems Strategic Plan. The new plan supports the advancement of IISs by focusing on four strategic priorities: enhancing IIS performance, sustaining the IIS community, influencing and monitoring the ...

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...

This course builds on HL7 Basics to dive deeper into how HL7 works. Learners will explore conformance, constraints, and message profiles. We'll also cover how the Implementation Guide constrains the HL7 standard, how local specifications are set up, and how co...

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

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 the relationship between schools and child care facilities and IIS

This Discovery Session reviews the 2017 IIS Annual Report (IISAR)

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

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 Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS user account management

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce Validation and measures for Transport

This document highlights the progress and successes of IIS found through an independent, third party method of IIS evaluation, where AIRA partnered with the National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST) and the Measurement for Assessment and Certificati...

Jan Hicks-Thomson from the IIS Support Branch at CDC provided an overview to the 2018-2022 CDC-Endorsed Data Elements. Amy Metroka from New York City presented on considerations for incorporating new data elements into the NYC CIR and Eric Larson from AIRA sha...

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

Mandy Harris, Manager for the Nevada WebIZ and incoming AIRA President Elect, along with Elaine Lowery, Public Health Consultant with AIRA and PHII shared about the recently released MIROW Guidance Document on Consolidating Demographic and Vaccination Event Re...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to survey the IIS community about the CDC WSDL

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 the relationship between schools and child care facilities and IIS

To expedite access to immunization records on individuals displaced by recent hurricanes, AIRA compiled information on out-of-jurisdiction record access from Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas and the Virgin Islands

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding accepting insurance data

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee introduced the IIS Data Quality Practices – Monitoring and Evaluating Data Submissions guide. Webinar speakers included Erin Roche, lead consultant/writer for the guide and former manager of the Minnesota IIS, a...

This resource for the IIS community focuses on the ongoing data monitoring and evaluation process for incoming data submissions

Webinar | Therese Hoyle, Teresa Dussault and Erin Roche from the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), along with Jenne McKibben from the Oregon ALERT IIS, presented on the Software Development Lifecycle.

In early 2017, the AIRA Education Steering Committee assessed the educational needs of the IIS community. This report includes an analysis of the results, which will be used to guide the development of new resources and educational opportunities

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting about the Proposed Voluntary Certification process

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.

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 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...

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

This guide provides practical tips that can be used to help explain vaccination coverage assessment results to decision makers, such as senior public health leadership, legislators, and the media

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding consumer access

MIROW | Full Guide and Mini-Guide

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new resource, Practical Examples of IIS Population-based Coverage Assessments. This resource is an addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an II...

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

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session included a presentation from Tina Scott with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Immunization Program on partnering with Medicaid and CMS to leverage 90/10 HITECH funding in your jurisdiction.

Article | This study evaluates the impact of using IIS data to identify unmet vaccination needs in adults seeking the influenza vaccine. The study found a 41.4% increase in the number of vaccines administered, and significant improvements in routinely recomme...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Scientific Technologies Corporation to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding health plans querying IIS

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