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Release of the Address Cleansing Reintegration Guide that provides practical guidance on bringing standardized and validated addresses and geocodes back into your IIS

In honor of National Health IT Week, some the innovative ways Immunization Information Systems (IIS) support Public Health and Clinical Medicine were presented

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

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC 2019 Standards Advisory

Tools and documents to support the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

This document builds upon the previous implementation guide and provides a more in-depth exploration of address cleansing for IIS programs. The document also provides guidance for reintegrating validated and standardized addresses and geocodes back into IIS

This document explores how to use small area analysis to find pockets of need and provides strategies for responding to pockets of need

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

National Meeting Presentation | AIRA Update

National Meeting Presentation | #AIRA2018 Recap & Highlights from Roundtable Discussions

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

National Meeting Presentation | MIROW Speed Dating: Interactive Session to Get Community Input on the Promotion of Operational Best Practices

National Meeting Presentation | The Landscape of Interjurisdictional Exchange

National Meeting Presentation | The MQE Tool: Everything You Need to Know

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

National Meeting Presentation | Address Cleansing 2.0: Bringing Cleansed Data Back In

National Meeting Presentation | Going Small in Utah: Identifying Immunization Pockets Of Need: Small Area Analysis of IIS Data To Detect Undervaccinated Populations

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Plan (QPP) and Promoting Interoperability proposed rule

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding integrating electronic disease surveillance systems into their IIS

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce two new guides for the IIS community that will be released very soon - IIS Data Quality Practices: To Monitor and Evaluate Data at Rest and Identifying Immunization Pockets of Need:...

Highlights from the AIRA 2018 National Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

National Meeting | 2018 Agenda with links to presentations

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

The session focused on “Getting the Most out of Your Project Management Tools and Resources” and included presentations considering project management from three different vantage points

Webinar | AIRA’s Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new AIRA website and ten helpful tips for using the website

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the New Jersey Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding official immunization forms

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

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

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...

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

This session focused on IIS data use, and included presentations from Oregon and North Dakota, two states participating in CDC’s Sentinel Site project

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding SAS coding to determine immunization coverage rates.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patients without an address

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

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss on the draft comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule

Information about AIRA's geocoding contest, which was created to incentivize participation in SmartyStreets, the no-cost address cleansing and geocoding service available to all IIS programs.

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Measures for Assessment

This document provides guidance for immunization provider sites, and provides best practice recommendations on how to best utilize IIS reports to improve data quality prior to running a vaccination coverage rate assessment.

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

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 sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS support models

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...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient inactivation

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding reporting requirements, enforcement, and penalties

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Massachusetts Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient organization verification for IIS access

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce the proposed Submission and Query Measures for Validation

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

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...

Draft business case for the IIS Joint Development and Implementation (JDI) Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) tool

Draft overview and functional requirements for the IIS Joint Development and Implementation (JDI) Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) tool

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC’s DRAFT Trusted Exchange Framework

Mary Beth Kurilo, Policy and Planning Director at AIRA, led a discussion on ONC's draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and draft AIRA comments.

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

The Joint Development and Implementation Initiative held an introductory webinar to engage interested community members in the development of the Message Quality Evaluation Tool, an open source, community-developed tool to assess message quality for incoming H...

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.

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...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the relationship between schools and child care facilities and IIS

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

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

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding IIS user account management

This document highlights the progress and successes of IIS found through an independent, third party method of IIS evaluation, where AIRA partnered with the National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST) and the Measurement for Assessment and Certificati...

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting to introduce Validation and measures for Transport

Jan Hicks-Thomson from the IIS Support Branch at CDC provided an overview to the 2018-2022 CDC-Endorsed Data Elements. Amy Metroka from New York City presented on considerations for incorporating new data elements into the NYC CIR and Eric Larson from AIRA sha...

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

Mandy Harris, Manager for the Nevada WebIZ and incoming AIRA President Elect, along with Elaine Lowery, Public Health Consultant with AIRA and PHII shared about the recently released MIROW Guidance Document on Consolidating Demographic and Vaccination Event Re...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to survey the IIS community about the CDC WSDL

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wyoming Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the relationship between schools and child care facilities and IIS

To expedite access to immunization records on individuals displaced by recent hurricanes, AIRA compiled information on out-of-jurisdiction record access from Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas and the Virgin Islands

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding accepting insurance data

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee introduced the IIS Data Quality Practices – Monitoring and Evaluating Data Submissions guide. Webinar speakers included Erin Roche, lead consultant/writer for the guide and former manager of the Minnesota IIS, a...

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

Webinar | Therese Hoyle, Teresa Dussault and Erin Roche from the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), along with Jenne McKibben from the Oregon ALERT IIS, presented on the Software Development Lifecycle.

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

Webinar | The Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) held a community wide town hall meeting about the Proposed Voluntary Certification process

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

Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted this webinar to highlight unique IIS school and childcare functionality in the community. An overview of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was provided, and speakers from Oregon, Washingt...

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

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding consumer access

MIROW | Full Guide and Mini-Guide

Webinar | AIRA's Assessment Steering Committee hosted this webinar to introduce the new resource, Practical Examples of IIS Population-based Coverage Assessments. This resource is an addendum to the Analytic Guide for Assessing Vaccination Coverage Using an II...

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

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session included a presentation from Tina Scott with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Immunization Program on partnering with Medicaid and CMS to leverage 90/10 HITECH funding in your jurisdiction.

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Scientific Technologies Corporation to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding health plans querying IIS

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Immunization Program to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding patient active/inactive status

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

Webinar | This Discovery Session provided an overview of the new Security Guidance that summarizes common IIS security issues (e.g., risk analysis and risk management) to help IIS administrators engage in security discussions with IT staff and vendors

Webinar | The Education Steering Committee hosted a webinar to present “AFIX-IIS Integration Project – The Good, the Bad and Lessons Learned,” which was selected as one of the standout sessions from the AIRA 2017 National Meeting. CDC described IIS enhan...

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

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Wisconsin Division of Public Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding the utilization of electronic signatures for VFC renewals and/or enrollment

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...

This guidance document seeks to clarify how to populate the Acknowledgment Code (MSA-1), the Query Response Status (QAK-2) and the Error Severity (ERR-4) to ensure that all values are in agreement and are appropriate for the outcomes of the processing of the i...

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Vermont Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding displaying a patient's mother's name and/or contact information in patient records

Webinar | An introduction of SmartyStreets to the IIS community More context about the Address Cleansing project and how to enroll in it can be found on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

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