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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

Webinar | The AIRA Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to provide an introduction to the ExIS Usability Best Practices Catalog, which documents best practices for vaccine ordering and inventory management. Participants learned about usability, saw a ...

This guide describes practical considerations and key decision points in designing a population-based assessment using an IIS

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

This guide provides operational and technical guidance for additional report components of AFIX assessment and feedback functionality. The Phase II document is intended as a resource for those who have already implemented or are in the process of implementing ...

This document provides CDC’s requirements and recommendations for incorporating AFIX assessment functionality in IIS

Survey and summary report prepared by AIRA's Provider Training Workgroup

This guide has been retired and replaced by the 2022 MIROW Data Quality Assurance in Immunization Information Systems guide. Please email info@immregistries.org to request the archived document

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guide

MIROW | Full Guide and Mini-Guides in English, Spanish and French

MIROW | Full Guide and Mini-Guides in English, Spanish and French This guide addresses the three phases of vaccination level de-duplication: selection, evaluation and resolution. The content related to the resolution phase was replaced by Consolidating Demo...

During this Discovery Session, Wisconsin and Louisiana explored how data and research can help improve vaccine coverage from childhood through adulthood. The presenters shared insights on identifying barriers, leveraging data systems, and advancing access to v...

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Data Completeness and Quality Via the Data at Rest Measurement (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the...

National Meeting Presentation | The Family Educational Rights Privacy Act and Access to Student Information (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without ...

This Discovery Session is an opportunity to learn more about electronic health records (EHRs) from the experts. On this Discovery Session, AIRA is partnering with the HIMSS EHR Association to hear more about the EHR perspective and how IIS can best collaborate...

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: CDC leadership shares their vision for advancing IIS together, with Q&A after the panel discussion

This document provides a fillable form for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for secure, electronic exchange of immunization information among governmental entities that operate a population-based immunization information system (IIS)

This document combines the original HL7 2.5.1 Release 1.5 Implementation Guide and Release 1.5 Addendum, as well as additional guidance published by AIRA. The purpose of this document is to provide a single document containing essential HL7 information, so tha...

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...

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

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

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.

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?"

MIROW | Full Guide, Mini-Guides in English, Spanish and French

This guide has been retired and replaced by the 2022 MIROW Data Quality Assurance in Immunization Information Systems guide. Please email info@immregistries.org to request the archived document

National Meeting Presentation | Making Data-Driven Decisions to Reduce Manual Deduplication (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying...

A five-minute video with step-by-step instructions on how to improve your Query results in the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART) by using the NIST Immunization Test Suite

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

Webinar | This session included an overview of the new Confidentiality Guidance that was sent out to the community for review. Comments were due on back to AIRA in August 2016

National Meeting Presentation | Entity Resolution: Using Multiple Methods to Address Patient Disambiguation (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without ...

National Meeting Presentation | Agile in Action: Transforming IIS Development for Public Health (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompan...

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Data Quality Assessments and Enhancements (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commenta...

AIRA's weekly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest IIS News and Highlights

AIRA's weekly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest IIS News and Highlights

The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meeting provides important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. It is a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community

Graphics portfolio of validation badges as part of AIRA's new digital recognition program to promote credibility and recognition for IIS that achieve at least Basic Validation in one or more areas of the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) initiative. Three....

AIRA's weekly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest IIS News and Highlights

During this Discovery Session, Connecticut and New York City shared how they are using real-time VTrckS API automation to improve IIS inventory operations. The session highlighted approaches to automating shipment and master data updates, reducing manual proce...