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During this Discovery Session, Arizona and Texas shared how they’ve leveraged the Data at Rest (DAR) Measurement & Improvement content area to enhance IIS data quality. Arizona showcased reporting and visualization tools that improve completeness, validity, ...

This session highlighted the role of accurate patient matching in IIS data quality and shared key takeaways from AIRA’s second pilot, including enhancements to the tool, lessons learned, and how the findings can inform IIS programs moving forward. Whether...

This Discovery Session took a deeper look at AIRA’s Emerging Standards initiative and how we’re approaching modernization, including our framework for adopting FHIR for specific projects shaping the future of immunization interoperability. The session s...

This session showcased key highlights from the AIRA 2025 National Meeting including recaps of the following highly rated breakout sessions: • Closing the Gap: A Data-Driven Approach to Address Health Gaps in NC from Jenny Myers, MPH, North Carolina Departme...

During this Discovery Session, presenters discussed the next steps for Patient Matching – HL7 as part of AIRA’s Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Initiative. The draft Measures and Tests for Patient Matching – HL7 document was reviewed with the IIS commu...

During the session, presenters discussed immunization data exchange after 20 million immunization messages were exchanged. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been exchanging, tracking, and analyzing immunization messages to understand the reasons b...

During the session, presenters discussed the Digitization and Standardization project and shared how digitized local IGs in IGAMT (NIST’s Implementation Guide Authoring and Management Tool) can be used to create a cost-free, jurisdiction-specific test tool. ...

During this session, presenters from the Society for Post-Acute and Long-term Care Medicine Inc. (AMDA) and AIRA discuss Moving Needles, a CDC-funded initiative to increase the connectivity between Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) EHRs and IIS

During this session, presenters navigate emerging standards as they support public health data modernization initiatives and provide structured data specifications to meet the needs of public health programs and their partners

During this session, you'll hear about Updates to the IIS Functional Standards. Presentation includes: • IIS Functional Standards Update Project from Candace Garcia, PHII; Marcey Propp, PHII; Brittany Ersery-Kemp, HLN

This session is an introduction to AIRA’s Interoperability Course. This course was designed in response to community needs to support staff working on IIS interoperability topics. In this Discovery Session you will learn about the course format, hear from pa...

A Discovery Session webinar focused on topic areas relevant for all IIS Managers but specifically target new(er) IIS Managers, staff, and those new to the IIS community

This session focused on CDS Assessment in AART and getting the most out of your report

This session focused on Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and provided considerations for documentation of service performance measures across IIS and all services that support IIS.

Overview of the recently released Functional Guide Volume 2: CDC Endorsed Data Elements

Demonstration of the new IIS Dashboard

Information on CDC’s planning for Provider Onboarding Shared Services and opportunity for CDC to hear from attendees about onboarding topics

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

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

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

Eric Larson and Nathan Bunker from AIRA discussed new technologies, including FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), and what they mean for the IIS Community.

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...

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.

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...

Webinar | This Discovery Session featured an epidemiologist from Colorado who shared how they use an open source forecasting tool called the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) within the Colorado IIS

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

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

Webinar | Representatives from Washington and North Dakota discussed the importance of provider engagement during this session

Webinar | This session featured Jim Daniel from ONC who provided an overview and introduction to Meaningful Use

Webinar | This session featured presentations from Oregon, North Carolina and STC on pharmacy participation with IIS

Webinar | This session featured a presentation by Nathan Bunker who presented on HL7 basics

Webinar | In this session, a representative from HPE reviewed the User Acceptance Testing process, and a representative from OR shared some state-level experience with setting up systems to track bugs, bug fixes and enhancements

Webinar | Representatives from AIRA and Michigan provided an overview about considerations for high-priority intra-agency partnerships and shared experiences in creating partnerships between the IIS and vital records, WIC, Medicaid, newborn screening and other...

Webinar | Speakers from AIRA and Michigan discussed how to develop and maintain key IIS policies