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A Discovery Session webinar focusing on how data analytics can help IIS prepare for the challenges ahead such as a COVID vaccine, expanded flu season and catchup of routine immunizations

AIRA-AIM joint Education Steering Committee webinar regarding supporting high levels of immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic

A 3-part webinar series hosted by AIRA and researchers at the University of Colorado describes a toolkit on conducting centralized reminder/recall. Several IIS also share their experiences with implementing and sustaining reminder/recall using their IIS. Centr...

The main purpose of the guide is to bridge the gap between currently published guidance on patient status and its actual implementation by IIS. This guide offers practical guidelines for providers, public health entities, and IIS to use in implementing and man...

Series of one-sheet resources to communicate the role and value of immunization information systems (IIS) for use by the IIS community. Add your logo to this version of the one-sheet resources

National Meeting Presentation | Colorado's Implementation of an IIS In-Application Training Tool

National Meeting Presentation | A Matter of Life and Death - Data Sharing Between IIS and Vital Records

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Clinical Decision Support Systems by Means of Tools and Testing

National Meeting Presentation | Improving IIS HL7 Web Service Performance in New York City

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging Immunization Information Data to Improve Lead Screening Rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

MIROW | Full Guide and Mini-Guide

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...

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...

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.

This guide provides recommendations on the data validation process within onboarding. This is the first resource of a multi-year project that will look at different aspects of IIS data quality

This blog discusses how a comprehensive legal framework for cross-jurisdictional data sharing could provide greater impact related to immunizations as well as other areas affecting public health

This document assists IIS as they develop policies and procedures to meet legal requirements for protecting the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality of information in IIS. This describes the impact of major federal laws on IIS including HIPPA and FER...

Article | A comparison of the quality of data reported through a real-time HL7 Web Service with data submitted through other methods

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide and AIRA 2016 National Meeting Presentation

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Private Providers Participation in IIS Through a Data Quality Plan

National Meeting Presentation | Communicating and Training IIS Users: Washington’s Story

National Meeting Presentation | IIS-EHR Partnerships: Providing and Displaying Immunizations and Clinical Decision Support in EHRs