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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 | Hepatitis B Immunization Trends Among Massachusetts Newborns, 2022–2025 (Please note: These presentation slides are intended as supporting materials for presentations delivered at the AIRA 2026 National Meeting and may be i...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding HL7 connections with schools

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

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Errors at Scale: Lessons from Pennsylvania’s IIS Migration (Please note: These presentation slides are intended as supporting materials for presentations delivered at the AIRA 2026 National Meeting and may be incomplete...

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...