IIS OPERATIONAL BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES

MIROW -- Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup

The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), in partnership with the CDC/NIP, began working in 2005 on an exciting initiative directed at the analysis and improvement of immunization information system (IIS) operations. The goal of this ongoing effort is to produce, or grow, an IIS “best practice” guidebook for operationalizing IIS functionality. Topic chapters contain a mixture of descriptive textual references, visual schematics, and associated business rules. Chapters will be added or revised over time and as resources permit. In the spring of 2005, AIRA conducted an online assessment to identify operational issues that could benefit from such community-based guidelines. IIS stakeholders were asked to suggest topics and subject matter experts (SMEs) that could serve as potential participants in formulating these guidelines. The project steering committee categorized and prioritized the suggested topics.

• MIROW Chapter #1: Management of Moved or Gone Elsewhere (MOGE) Status and Other Patient Designations in IIS (1.3 mb .doc) 

• MIROW Chapter #2: Vaccine Level Deduplication in Immunization Information Systems (.pdf). 

• MIROW Chapter #3: Data Quality Assurance in IIS: Incoming Data (.pdf)