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Takeaways from the IIS Data Analyst Collaborative (IDAC) in February 2024
These are the takeaways and recording from the February 2025 IIS Data Analyst Collaborative (IDAC). The topic discussed was determining the non-VFC provider population.
AIRA’s monthly recap to inform the IIS community about the latest happenings and activities within AIRA
Federal Register Proposed Rule to amend the regulations governing education records maintained by educational agencies and institutions
National Meeting Presentation | FHIRing Up the Future of IIS (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commentary and discussion...
National Meeting Presentation | FHIRing Up the Future of IIS: Strategy Session (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2021 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral comment...
AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding flat file uploads and the enhancement of reporting systems
National Meeting Presentation | Flu Vaccination Trends in Washington State 2019–2024 (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...
AIM and AIRA co-hosted the FluMist Home Presentation for AIM and AIRA Members on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The recording has been posted to the member-only area of the AIM website. The recording is not to be shared outside of immunization program and IIS staff...
National Meeting Presentation | FluSafe: Tool for Tracking Healthcare Worker Immunizations in IIS
National Meeting Presentation | For You, by You: Create the Building Blocks of Disease Control with CDC (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the ...
National Meeting Presentation | Forming a Data User Group to Prioritize Training and Epidemiology Needs in Kansas (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete wi...
National Meeting Presentation | Forming a Workgroup for Methodological Standardization and Collaboration (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the...
Describes the process of summarizing acknowledgement messages (ACKs) in aggregate reports produced by IIS, EHRs and third-parties. ACKs are most helpful when they are summarized, reviewed and acted upon. The information contained within acknowledgment reports ...
These links and documents have been compiled to assist the immunization community in their COVID-19 planning and preparation. This list may not be complete and will likely be updated frequently as new information is released. We also encourage you to check CDC...
National Meeting Presentation | Frequency of Vaccinations Outside Recommended Ages — 2014; Six IIS Sentinel Sites
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?"
National Meeting Presentation | From 0 to 100 in 1 Year: Ramping up Inventory Management and Reporting in the IIS
National Meeting Presentation | From 3 to 753: Oklahoma's HL7 Journey (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2021 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commentary and dis...
National Meeting Presentation | From Cacophony to Clarity: Integrating Communications into IIS Operations
This one-sheet provides a high-level overview of the role of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) in immunizations. It highlights key functions, benefits, and emerging considerations for maintaining clear and consistent vaccine guidance as schedules and policies ev...
National Meeting Presentation | From EHR Immunization Requirements to a Validation and Recognition Program
National Meeting Presentation | From Manager to Team: Diversifying Your IIS Leadership to Meet Demands (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete without the a...
National Meeting Presentation | From Muddled to Methodized: Onboarding in Minnesota
National Meeting Presentation | From Presentation to Publication: Advice from the AIRA Publication Workgroup (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 | From Rejection to Resolution: Optimizing Virginia’s HL7 VXU Message Workflow (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting and are incomplete witho...
National Meeting Presentation | From Requirements to Go-Live: The Epic Journey of an IIS Platform Transition
National Meeting Presentation | From the Simple to the Complex: IIS Provider Training in MN and LA (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accom...
National Meeting Presentation | Functional Standards Update
Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to explain the key concepts of HL7 specific to IIS. Learners will explore what HL7 is, why it is used for immunization messaging, how it works, what the impacts of HL7 messaging are on IIS, and...
Part of the Fundamentals of IIS series, the goal of this course is to introduce learners to key concepts related to interoperability and the responsibilities of the IIS. This course includes information about electronic health records, health information excha...
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 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 funding to support IIS operations.
National Meeting Presentation | Future of IIS: Sustainability Strategies
National Meeting Presentation | Gamification Strategies Applied to IIS Training Within a Learning Management System (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete ...
Report | The General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization is available. These guidelines for immunization go beyond vaccination recommendations to give providers guidelines on vaccination practice
Purpose: To get count of patients Outcome: To get count of patients Format: Single field Audience: IIS staff
National Meeting Presentation | Geographic Coverage Analysis and Location Optimization for Vaccine Providers (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without...
National Meeting Presentation | Geographic distribution of HPV Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents in North Dakota
National Meeting Presentation | Get SMaRT (AFIX)!
Webinar | AIRA's Education Steering Committee hosted a community-wide presentation on preparing for Meaningful Use Stage 3
Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how electronic immunization registries are used all over the globe to track and improve immunization rates worldwide
National Meeting Presentation | Going Small in Utah: Identifying Immunization Pockets Of Need: Small Area Analysis of IIS Data To Detect Undervaccinated Populations
National Meeting Presentation | Going Small: Strategies for Identifying Local Pockets of Need
National Meeting Presentation | Growth from COVID-19; Lessons and Strategies to Inform our IIS Future (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the ac...
National Meeting Presentation | Guardians of Immunization Adherence: Cosmic Reminder/Recall (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying...
Clarification on implementation methods in an effort to point all IIS towards common, standardized ACK messaging
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...
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)
Purpose: This report summarizes VFC inventory that has been marked as “wastage” (wasted, spoiled, or expired) within the previous month. Data is summarized by overall wastage by vaccine and by individual provider. Outcome: This script outputs a three-ta...
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
Helping IIS Stakeholders Help Themselves! Driving Daily Business Processes With Self-Serve Resources
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 | HHS Vision for Technology Support of Health IT
National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Data Quality Tool: Transformation to a General Purpose Open- Source Tool
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...
Dated Immunization IG, no longer in use. Use only for reference
Dated Immunization IG, no longer in use. Use only for reference
Dated Immunization IG, no longer in use. Use only for reference
Dated Immunization IG, no longer in use. Use only for reference
Health Level Seven (HL7) is a nationally recognized standard for electronic data exchange between systems housing health care data. The HL7 standard is a key factor that supports this two-way exchange of information because it defines a syntax or grammar for f...
Health Level Seven (HL7) is a nationally recognized standard for electronic data exchange between systems housing health care data. The HL7 standard is a key factor that supports this two-way exchange of information because it defines a syntax or grammar for f...
This addendum consolidates the Implementation Guide information that clarifies the conformance requirements. This supplement does not specify additional requirements; it just clarifies existing ones. Value set requirements, general clarifications, and Immuniza...
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...
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
National Meeting Presentation | How CDPH Enables Secure, Real-Time Vaccination History Checks with APIs (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the ...
National Meeting Presentation | How IIS Can Support Pharmacies and How Pharmacies Support IIS: A Collection of Stories
National Meeting Presentation | How IISs Can Improve Acute Disease Investigations and Surveillance
In this review, we examine immunization information systems and the role that data and staffing play in pandemic responses. We offer three strategic recommendations—regarding funding, expanded provider enrollment, and data reporting—informed by a literatur...
National Meeting Presentation | How to Fill Technology Gaps with IIS Training (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2022 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanying oral commenta...
National Meeting Presentation | How to Make the Most of Your IIS During an Outbreak
HowTo guide on how to create a client to use the CDC SOAP interface for Visual C# programmers
How to guide on how to create a server that implements the CDC SOAP interface for Visual C# programmers
Article | This study found a 40% increase in additional vaccinations given at the time of flu shots when pharmacists had access to IIS data
Future of Personal Health article regarding the access and sharing of vaccination records
AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to notify members that Washington State has changed the forecasting settings for HPV, so children at age 9 prompts “due now” for the HPV vaccination
National Meeting Presentation | HPV Roundtable Report: Issues with EHR and IIS in HPV Vaccination
National Meeting Presentation | Human Factors Implementing 2D Vaccine Barcode Scanning in Clinical Settings