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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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, ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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