Resource Repository

This one-sheet provides a high-level overview of the role of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) in immunizations. It highlights key functions, benefits, and emerging considerations for maintaining clear and consistent vaccine guidance as schedules and policies ev...

National Meeting Presentation | From EHR Immunization Requirements to a Validation and Recognition Program

National Meeting Presentation | From Manager to Team: Diversifying Your IIS Leadership to Meet Demands (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 | From Muddled to Methodized: Onboarding in Minnesota

National Meeting Presentation | From Presentation to Publication: Advice from the AIRA Publication Workgroup (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without...

National Meeting Presentation | From Rejection to Resolution: Optimizing Virginia’s HL7 VXU Message Workflow (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete witho...

National Meeting Presentation | From Requirements to Go-Live: The Epic Journey of an IIS Platform Transition

National Meeting Presentation | From the Simple to the Complex: IIS Provider Training in MN and LA (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accom...

National Meeting Presentation | Functional Standards Update

Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to explain the key concepts of HL7 specific to IIS. Learners will explore what HL7 is, why it is used for immunization messaging, how it works, what the impacts of HL7 messaging are on IIS, and...

Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to introduce learners to key concepts related to interoperability and the responsibilities of the IIS. This course includes information about electronic health records, health information excha...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Washington State Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding funding options to fulfill requests for data

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 funding to support IIS operations.

National Meeting Presentation | Future of IIS: Sustainability Strategies

National Meeting Presentation | Gamification Strategies Applied to IIS Training Within a Learning Management System (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete ...

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

National Meeting Presentation | Geographic Coverage Analysis and Location Optimization for Vaccine Providers (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without...

National Meeting Presentation | Geographic distribution of HPV Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents in North Dakota

National Meeting Presentation | Get SMaRT (AFIX)!

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a community-wide presentation on preparing for Meaningful Use Stage 3

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how electronic immunization registries are used all over the globe to track and improve immunization rates worldwide

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | Growth from COVID-19; Lessons and Strategies to Inform our IIS Future (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the ac...

National Meeting Presentation | Guardians of Immunization Adherence: Cosmic Reminder/Recall (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying...

Clarification on implementation methods in an effort to point all IIS towards common, standardized ACK messaging

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...

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...

Vaccination events that occur as part of clinical trial can be reported to IIS under pre-defined circumstances. This guidance document provides an HL7 method to indicate the vaccination event was part of a clinical trial. It also provides additional considerat...

This document outlines an approach to specify preferred or contraindicated vaccine types in a response message

Gender-marginalized individuals face significant barriers to adequate and culturally responsive health care, leading to numerous health disparities. The preferred name is the name that should be used when addressing or referencing the patient. For the purposes...

This document provides guidance on how to populate OBX-14 for common observation types

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 to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding handling IIS Opt-Outs

National Meeting Presentation | Hands-On with IIS Training Solutions & Workforce Development

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association article exploring the use of health plan quality measures specified for electronic clinical data to monitor immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Having the Right Staff to Support and Maintain Quality Data (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying...

National Meeting Presentation | Health Dashboards for Oklahoma: Tools to Strategize Vaccination Mobility and Improvements (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incom...

On October 4, 2024, AIRA submitted IIS community comments on ONC's latest NPRM. These comments were collected and consolidated from across the community and reviewed by AIRA's Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee (SISC)

National Meeting Presentation | Health Information Systems' Impact on Data Quality and Use in a Global Context

National Meeting Presentation | Health Insurance Claims-IIS Data Linkage for Post- Vaccination Surveillance (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without ...

National Meeting Presentation | Health Level 7 Implementation Guide: Current and Future States

National Meeting Presentation | Health Level 7 Web Service Search Success Rates in New York City’s Citywide Immunization Registry

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Oregon Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding health plans using QBP to query members for HEDIS measures

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding Medicaid match funding

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding HEDIS reporting service charges

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

National Meeting Presentation | Helping IIS Stakeholders Help Themselves! Driving Daily Business Processes With Self-Serve Resources

National Meeting Presentation | Hep A and Hep B Vaccination Coverage Among High-Risk Individuals in Wisconsin

National Meeting Presentation | HHS Vision for Technology Support of Health IT

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

HL7 Frequently Asked Questions – Updated December 2021 The HL7 FAQ includes guidance on topics such as patient protection indicators, timestamp format, and messaging immunities. The FAQ has been reformatted for ease of use.

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Timeliness and Completeness in the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR)

Objective This on-demand eLearning is designed to strengthen the IIS community’s knowledge and skills in using ACK messages to facilitate immunization data interoperability across systems, in alignment with the National IG. Learning Objectives Upon...

Objective This on-demand eLearning is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of the IIS community in using VXU messages to support the interoperability of immunization information between systems in alignment with the National IG. Learning Object...