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This Addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an IIS describes real-life examples of coverage assessments using IIS data. These examples (from IIS in New York City, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Washington state) provide explan...

Video | SOAP WSDL 101: Understanding the Key to Interoperability (3:59 min)

Video | SOAP Transition Strategies: Building the Bridge to Success (9:49)

Webinar | The AIRA Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar on the CDC Functional Standards. This session featured Jan Hicks-Thomson and Janet Fath from CDC/NCIRD/IISSB and was an introduction to their presentation for the AIRA 2017 National Meeting

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session featured presentations on HEDIS (the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and discussed the development process for HEDIS measures, as well as the contribution of IIS data to the measurement process

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

Webinar | This session provided guidance for drafting and using IIS Business Plans and featured a presentation from Beth Cox (CDC)

Document | This resource from the AIRA Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee is to notify the IIS community about vaccine serial numbers being newly embedded into 2D barcode data. The goal of this notice is to raise other critical data elements wit...

Webinar | This webinar introduced the contents of the Data Validation Guide for the IIS Onboarding Process which provides recommendations on data validation within the onboarding process

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

Webinar | This session featured a presentation from Envision on their upcoming AFIX-IIS Integration Project.

Tdap and influenza vaccination coverage was assessed among pregnant women in Minnesota. Overall, coverage with Tdap vaccine was 58.2% and with influenza vaccine was 45.9%. Coverage varied based on prenatal care and mother’s race, country of birth or region, ...

Toolkit | This planning toolkit provides guidance on preparing to work with Medicaid on securing federal matching funds. Those funds can be used to support IIS readiness for Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchange. The toolkit includes tip sheets and wo...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a centralized repository for public health agencies and clinical data registries

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

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

Video | A three-minute video on how to use the NIST immunization test suite software to test SOAP connectivity and HL7 immunization messages.

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

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community-wide meeting on the proposed 2017-2019 AIRA Strategic Plan

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

This Health IT dashboard shows the percent of hospitals in active engagement with a public health agency to submit electronic public health data in 2015

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) hosted a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed IIS assessment measures for submission/acknowledgement and query/response as part of the IIS measurement and improvement pr...

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

Webinar | This session focused on the development methods of agile and waterfall, and the strengths, challenges, and considerations of each

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been charged with developing tools to be used by the EHR certification program. This document provides an overview of the NIST immunization testing tool suite, which is of considerable use to IIS lo...

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

Webinar | This session offered a demonstration of the SMART AFIX tool being created by STC

Video | A nearly four-minute video brief on the history of transport options, culminating in the selection of SOAP web services as the recommended transport for HL7 immunization messaging.

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

Webinar | This session focused on AART, or the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool. AART will be the tool used for IIS Managers/Leads to indicate their participation in IIS assessment and share results of IIS assessment measures

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

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed IIS assessment measures for message transport as part of the IIS measurement and improvement process.

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

Webinar | Representatives from Washington and North Dakota discussed the importance of provider engagement during this session

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar featuring presenters from Michigan, North Dakota and AIM who shared ideas for improving coverage rates using IIS data from an immunization program manager's perspective

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

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

Webinar | At this session, representatives from the MIROW Steering Committee talked about the process for MIROW chapter development, and the release of the latest chapter: “Decrementing Inventory via Electronic Data Exchange.”

Webinar | These Q&A sessions were open to anyone in the IIS community to ask any questions or hear about what others are finding useful about the AART tool

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

National Meeting Presentation | Introduction to MIROW's Consolidation of Demographic and Immunization Information in IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Something Old, New, Measured and Blue: Current Uses and Future Plans for the Functional Standards

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Coverage Rates Using IIS: Collaborating to Overcome Barriers

National Meeting Presentation | Using NIST Tools to Advance Interoperability for Immunization Messaging Implementations

National Meeting Presentation | Migrating to a New IIS: The Story of Oklahoma's Success

National Meeting Presentation | Data Migration Lessons Learned, Data Quality Opportunities for Data at Rest

National Meeting Presentation | Incremental IIS Roll Out: Delivering Tailored Customer Service for Transitioning Providers

National Meeting Presentation | A Community Conversation about Interjurisdictional Exchange

National Meeting Presentation | Top Ten Reasons to Invest in Immunization Program-IIS Integration

National Meeting Presentation | Using a Mobile App to Improve Pertussis Vaccination Data Quality and Reporting to an IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Using Quality Assurance Tools to Improve HL7 Reporting to NYC's Citywide Immunization Registry

National Meeting Presentation | Integrating Existing Tools to Monitor HL7 Message Quality

National Meeting Presentation | The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): Its Impact on Data Sharing by Schools

National Meeting Presentation | Use of IIS in MN School-Based Mass Vaccination Exercises: Public Health Preparedness Implications

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging an IIS to Assist Child Care Centers With Their Annual Immunization Report

National Meeting Presentation | From 0 to 100 in 1 Year: Ramping up Inventory Management and Reporting in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Managing the Inventory Funding Source and Patient Eligibility Equation in the IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Let's Get Along: Automatic Decrementing of Inventory Demonstrates IIS Functionality Interdependency

National Meeting Presentation | The Vaccine Safety Datalink and IIS: Evaluation of IIS Data

National Meeting Presentation | AFIX Coverage Service: Pre-Calculating Statistics to Support New and Future AFIX Guidance and Improve Report Performance

National Meeting Presentation | How IIS Can Support Pharmacies and How Pharmacies Support IIS: A Collection of Stories

National Meeting Presentation | The Query Quandary: Your Data Has Left the Building, Now What?

National Meeting Presentation | A National Look at Data Exchange Variation and Improvement Initiatives

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Performance on the Shot Clock: Sharing Responsibilities Between Providers and IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Implementation of Provider-Based Text Message Recall Through an Immunization Information System

National Meeting Presentation | Testing Reliability of Regional Coverage Rates Using Registry Data in Voluntary Reporting Areas

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS and Vital Statistics Data to Measure Racial/Ethnic Immunization Coverage Disparities in MN

National Meeting Presentation | Using an IIS to Provide Quarterly Human Papilloma Virus (Hpv) Coverage Detail to Medical Providers

National Meeting Presentation | Implementing a Vaccine Management System at the IIS Level

National Meeting Presentation | Improving the Success and Timeliness of Project Completion in North Dakota

National Meeting Presentation | IIS and Vendors: A Partnership

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability With Unconventional Systems

National Meeting Presentation | Comparing IIS and Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS) Data to Improve IIS Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluating IIS Address Data Quality following HL7 Implementation by a Retail Pharmacy Chain

National Meeting Presentation | Putting Best Practices to Work: Colorado’s Experience with IIS-Based Centralized Reminder/Recall

National Meeting Presentation | Wisconsin Immunization Registry Meaningful Use Onboarding Processes and Best Practices

National Meeting Presentation | Challenges of Having a Huge Volume of Marginal Data and Strategies to Create a Win-Win Situation

National Meeting Presentation | Frequency of Vaccinations Outside Recommended Ages — 2014; Six IIS Sentinel Sites

National Meeting Presentation | Trends in Compliance with Two-dose Influenza Vaccine Recommendations in Young Children, 2010–2015

National Meeting Presentation | Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in Washington State: Estimated Coverage and Missed Opportunities

National Meeting Presentation | A Tale of Two Collaborators: The IIS Sentinel Site Project and CDC

National Meeting Presentation | Evaluation of Interstate Immunization Data Exchange between Minnesota and Wisconsin

National Meeting Presentation | Decrementing Inventory via Electronic Data Exchange: MIROW 2016 Guidelines

National Meeting Presentation | Exploring Strategies and Considerations for Implementing Innovative Technology Within Your IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Personalizing Public Health Through Consumer Access to Immunization Records — An Interactive Session

National Meeting Presentation | Open Source Revealed: How the IIS Community Can Benefit From Being an Open Source Community

National Meeting Presentation | AART: Painting a Picture of Your IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Questions about Meaningful Use Stage 3 (or 2 or 1)? Ask the Expert!

National Meeting Presentation | No Pain, No Gain: Using Quality Improvement Processes to Improve Program Efficiency

National Meeting Presentation | The Quest for the Best: Establishing a Data Quality Protocol and Tools for Incoming Data

National Meeting Presentation | The Results of Implementing IIS Data Exchange With 19 Electronic Health Record Vendors in Washington

National Meeting Presentation | Progress Update on Automating VTrckS ExIS Data Exchange and the ExIS Usability Best Practices Catalog