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This document provides detailed instructions for IIS or health technology partners, specifically their designated AART administrators, on how to maintain the measurement and sharing settings (e.g., participation in the Measurement and Improvement Initiative) a...

During this session, you'll hear about how jurisdictions are improving IIS data quality. Presentations include: • Patient Matching and Data at Rest (DAR) Refresher from Eric Larson and Assiatou Diallo, American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) • ...

Immunizations in the United States are given in many different settings including pharmacies, doctors’ offices, and health departments. After a vaccine is administered, the information is uploaded to an Immunization Information System (IIS), usually run by t...

AIRA sent out an Information Request to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding onboarding long-term care facilities

AIRA sent out an Information Request from the Tennessee Department of Health to the membership to gather the collective expertise of the IIS community regarding QR codes

A Discovery Session webinar focused on the Immunization Integration Program (IIP) Acknowledgements Workgroup's experience and ongoing efforts being done to improve data quality. This session highlights an exciting partnership between the IIP, Epic, Vanderbilt ...

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 several data quality initiatives throughout the IIS community

An orientation session designed to help IIS get started with Smarty

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

A Discovery Session webinar focusing on the Data at Rest (DAR) pilot project and the data quality tools available to IIS to monitor data quality by provider

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

The purpose of the guide is to provide practical guidance on techniques, methodologies, and processes for IIS to use in assessing the quality of data at rest. This data includes demographic and immunization record information that is currently in the live, pro...

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

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

Official launch of the Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool

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

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine: An Open Source Option for Immunization Forecasting

National Meeting Presentation | Creating a Path Forward for IIS Sustainability

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

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

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 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 | 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 | 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

How an IIS can use and integrate the SmartyStreets address cleansing and geocoding service into its organization. Interested IIS can find more information about the service and how to enroll in it on the Address Cleansing Service webpage.

National Meeting Presentation | HL7 Data Quality Tool: Transformation to a General Purpose Open- Source Tool

National Meeting Presentation | ICE Update: Product Governance, Roadmap, and Use

Webinar | This session focused on the development methods of agile and waterfall, and the strengths, challenges, and considerations of each

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 | 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 | Agile Philosophy and Its Application Within Software Development in the IIS Community

National Meeting Presentation | Open Source Revealed: How the IIS Community Can Benefit From Being an Open Source Community

National Meeting Presentation | A Multi-purpose Evaluation of Open Source Immunization Clinical Decision Support Tool

National Meeting Presentation | The Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE): Open-Source Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations

National Meeting Presentation | Implementing the Clinical Decision Support for Immunization Standards: Challenges and Opportunities

National Meeting Presentation | Clinical Decision Support for Immunization: Using the Resources Effectively

National Meeting Presentation | Interoperability With IIS: Can It Be Extended to Schools?

National Meeting Presentation | Applied Use of Bidirectional Exchanges: A Case Study of Rockwood Clinic

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Bidirectional Query Exchange Work Group

National Meeting Presentation | Electronic Health Record (EHR) Interoperability with the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR): Progress to Date

National Meeting Presentation | Connecting to IIS Using an Open Source Software Application

National Meeting Presentation | On-boarding Large Provider Groups & Healthcare Systems – Unique Issues and Lessons Learned

National Meeting Presentation | Integrating Data Quality as an Essential Element of Interoperability

National Meeting Presentation | Texas Children's Hospital Forecast Tester: How It Can Improve Your Forecaster

National Meeting Presentation | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE): An Open-Source Immunization Decision Support System for Integration with IIS

National Meeting Presentation | Moving a Commercial Forecasting Product to Open Source

National Meeting Presentation | What's Going On: An Update on Clinical Decision Support for Immunization

National Meeting Presentation | Electronic Medical Record – IIS Interoperability: Balancing Provider Recruitment with Data Quality Needs

National Meeting Presentation | Interoperability: Onboarding Providers via Incident Command System – The Texas Experience

National Meeting Presentation | IIS Interoperability Status Check

This report reviews the IIS Interoperability Status Check project, designed to connect with IIS across the US, submit sample MU Stage 2 messages, and verify that the messages can be accepted

National Meeting Presentation | Leveraging a Multi-State Collaborative for Developing Immunization Information System Enhancements: An Evolving Model

National Meeting Presentation | Automating Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration

National Meeting Presentation | Navigating the Challenges of HL7 Data Exchange: What They Should Send, What They Could Send, What They Do Send

National Meeting Presentation | Continuing Evolution: California’s Two- pronged Approach to IIS and Interoperability

National Meeting Presentation | EHR-IIS Interoperability: Progress to Date and Preliminary Outcomes

National Meeting Presentation | Interoperability Benefits Can Lead to Great Unintended Benefits and Improved Data Quality