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External Link | A collection of specialized tools and apps that support public health practice maintained by the Mid Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

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

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

CDC has released its 2018-2020 CDC Immunization Information Systems Strategic Plan. The new plan supports the advancement of IISs by focusing on four strategic priorities: enhancing IIS performance, sustaining the IIS community, influencing and monitoring the ...

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...

This course builds on HL7 Basics to dive deeper into how HL7 works. Learners will explore conformance, constraints, and message profiles. We'll also cover how the Implementation Guide constrains the HL7 standard, how local specifications are set up, and how co...

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 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)

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

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...

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 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

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

This document sets forth the IIS Functional Standards and Operational Guidance Statement (OGS) to guide the direction and progress of IISs over the next five years.

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...

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 | 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.

Article | This study evaluates the impact of using IIS data to identify unmet vaccination needs in adults seeking the influenza vaccine. The study found a 41.4% increase in the number of vaccines administered, and significant improvements in routinely recomme...

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

This database contains IIS guidance documents, references for IIS-related articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs) from 1999 to the present. Links are provided for documents produced by the CDC. This data...

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

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...

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

Document | This position statement is focused on the IIS community moving toward sunsetting HL7 2.3.1 interfaces. This is meant to serve as a tool for IIS working with EHRs to communicate the consensus recommendation on dates by which HL7 2.3.1 interfaces will...

Technical Report | Immunisation information systems in the EU and EEA: Results of a survey on implementation and system characteristics

National Meeting Presentation | Closing Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | New Member/First-Time Attendee Orientation

National Meeting Presentation | Welcome and Opening Plenary

National Meeting Presentation | Roundtables: Meaningful Use, MIPS & MACRA

National Meeting Presentation | Implementing Health Factors (HALO) in Immunization Forecasting

National Meeting Presentation | Lessons Learned from Implementing the CDSi Logic

National Meeting Presentation | Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations (CDSi) Comparison: Pilot Study

National Meeting Presentation | Using NIST Tools for Evaluation of Immunization CDS Systems

National Meeting Presentation | CDSi Version 3.0: Updates and Enhancements

National Meeting Presentation | The Forest, Not the Trees: Integrating CDSi into the Immunization Landscape

National Meeting Presentation | Colorado Vaccine Exemptions: Implementation, Insight, and IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Impact of Linking an IIS and a School Immunization Compliance Database

Journal | This Eurosurveillance issue features articles including an editorial on the importance of immunization registries, an update about the measles outbreak in Belgium, and research about the effectiveness of the varicella vaccine among others. Eurosurvei...

National Meeting Presentation | Assuring Correctness and Consistency in AFIX-IIS Coverage Implementation

National Meeting Presentation | Interstate Collaboration on an AFIX-IIS Integration Project

National Meeting Presentation | AFIX Implementation Improvement Journey: Lessons from Eastern Washington

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Virginia Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding reporting administered doses.

Webinar | This AIRA Discovery Session focused on VTrckS and IIS, and involved an encore presentation of a stellar session from the AIRA 2017 National Meeting. Jessica Rao from NYCCIR presented on using VTrckS data for data quality, Jacy Fitzpatrick from STC pr...

National Meeting Presentation | Hands-On with IIS Training Solutions & Workforce Development

ImmuSMART: IIS/Community Pharmacy Interventions

National Meeting Presentation | IIS and VFC Working Together to Effectively Lean Engineer Enrollment

National Meeting Presentation | MN Staffing Model for IIS Integrating Vaccines for Children Functionality

National Meeting Presentation | Consumer Connections to IIS Records: A Spectrum of Approaches and Results

National Meeting Presentation | Everybody In? Let's Update the IIS Functional Standards Together

National Meeting Presentation | Back to the Future: How New IIS Transported Kentucky into 2016

National Meeting Presentation | A Multi-State Consortium to Improve IIS Training & Education

National Meeting Presentation | The AFIX-IIS Integration Project—The Good, the Bad and Lessons Learned

National Meeting Presentation | Using IIS Data to Monitor Uptake in Adult Immunization Recommendations

National Meeting Presentation | Increasing Adult Data in an IIS: Adult Providers, Pharmacies, and Beyond

National Meeting Presentation | Update on Adult Vaccinations and Immunization Information Systems, 2015

National Meeting Presentation | Expanded Use of VTrckS Data for IIS Data Quality and Improvement

National Meeting Presentation | Usability,Theory to Implementation: A Case Study Improving Vaccine Ordering

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

National Meeting Presentation | Public Health Impact of VTrckS ExIS Implementation

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 written policies for IIS data requests

Video | SOAP Transition Strategies: Building the Bridge to Success (9:49)

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

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

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...

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

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...

Webinar | This session offered a demonstration of the SMART AFIX tool being created by STC

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 | 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

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

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

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

National Meeting Presentation | Using NIST Tools to Advance Interoperability for Immunization Messaging Implementations

National Meeting Presentation | Something Old, New, Measured and Blue: Current Uses and Future Plans for the Functional Standards

National Meeting Presentation | New and Existing Acquisition Mechanisms to Support IIS Strategic Initiatives

National Meeting Presentation | Improving Immunization Data Exchange Interface in Wisconsin

National Meeting Presentation | Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in an Evaluation of HL7 Message Data Quality

National Meeting Presentation | Development of an Approach to Evaluate HL7 Message Success Across Multi-Level Pathways

National Meeting Presentation | Approaches to Increasing Reporting of Adult Immunizations in the NDIIS

National Meeting Presentation | Clinical Decision Support for Immunization: Overview of New Resources and Future Directions

National Meeting Presentation | Progress Update on Automating VTrckS ExIS Data Exchange and the ExIS Usability Best Practices Catalog

National Meeting Presentation | The Quest for the Best: Establishing a Data Quality Protocol and Tools for Incoming Data