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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)

National Meeting Presentation | Closing Immunization Data Exchange Gaps with Federal Agencies (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incomplete without the accompanyi...

National Meeting Presentation | Modernizing Automated Submission of Vaccine Data to CDC Using the North Star Architecture (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2024 National Meeting and are incom...

During this session, you'll hear about State Processes for Electronic Reporting to IIS. Presentation includes: • Electronic Immunization Reporting in the US: A 50-State Study from Margaret Arnesen, The Pew Charitable Trusts; Genna Cohen, Mathematica; Paul M...

National Meeting Presentation | The Family Educational Rights Privacy Act and Access to Student Information (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 | Changes to the IIS Policy Landscape (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 dis...

National Meeting Presentation | A Glimpse of Policy at the National Level and What It Means for You (Please note: The presentation slides shared provided an outline of presentations given at the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and are incomplete without the acco...

This resource includes talking points and a checklist of local considerations for immunization program managers, IIS managers, and public health decision makers.

In late January 2022, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging N...

AIRA Letter and Comments on CMS Proposed Rules

As part of efforts to support increased capture and utilization of adult vaccination data in IIS, AIRA developed a Landscape Analysis Report to document the challenges, current approaches, and opportunities to capture adult vaccination records. This report was...

An Environmental Scan on Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Expanding Immunization Information Systems for Adults in the United States

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: Learn about how the IZ Gateway project is being used in pandemic response

Select AIRA 2020 National Meeting Presentations: CDC leadership shares their vision for advancing IIS together, with Q&A after the panel discussion

Data Use Agreement with APHL (Association of Public Health Laboratories) for participation in both IZ Gateway Connect and IZ Gateway Share (updated August 3, 2020)

As immunization programs and immunization information systems (IIS) prepare to support pandemic response vaccination efforts, there is a need for decision-makers to ensure IIS policies do not inhibit data exchange and reporting. This one-sheet resource highlig...

The purpose of this guide is to help IIS programs develop and implement business continuity plans and management systems.

Considerations for developing Policy for the IIS community, including discussing documentation that is being used in the community and examples to consider when drafting documents

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC's TEFCA Draft 2

Webinar | AIRA held a community wide town hall meeting to discuss the draft comments on proposed rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medica...

AIRA Letter and Comments on ONC report: Strategy on Reducing Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs

Common areas of variability for IIS-EHR interoperability based on jurisdictional law and policy

AIRA Letter and Comments on the ONC 2019 Standards Advisory

National Meeting Presentation | EHR Immunization Recognition – Off to the Races

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 | 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

This article summarizes a systematic literature review of potential barriers to public health data sharing