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AIRA SnapShots Newsletter

SnapShots is produced quarterly by the AIRA Education Committee.
SnapShots Editor: Katie Reed, NY.


June 2008

  • President's Report
  • Louisiana Conducts 'Paperless" Mass Immunization Flu Clinics
  • A Good Day in Philadelphia for the KIDS Immunization Registry
  • IIS in a Health Information Exchange Network World
  • Working with Providers and EHRs to Exchange Immunization Data
  • IIS Present to National AHIC Committee
  • Upcoming Changes to Indian Health Service RPMS Program and Extract Software
  • State to State Data Exchange Preventing Extra Immunization
  • Use of the Arizona IIS During the Pima County Measles Outbreak
  • Data Quality Validations Guide Now Available
  • AIRA Submits Recommendations on FERPA

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March 2008 Special Edition

This focus of this special issue is on IIS and vaccine management. Click here to download (pdf).


November 2007

  • President's Report
  • New AIRA Board Officials Elected in Online Ballot
  • Dave Ross Named as New CCHIT Commissioner
  • Big Aspirations: Evolving IIS to Become a Platform for Emergency Response
  • A Brief Update from MIROW: Validation Experts Meet in Atlanta
  • AIRA Responds to ONC Prototype Use Cases
  • ECBT Partners with National Organizations to Further Participation in IIS
  • IIS Data Query Tool to be Launched
  • 2008-2012 IPOM Supports IIS Sustainability
  • 2008 NIC Planning in on Track
  • WANTED: Your IIS Best Practices
  • New IIS-Related Publications

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June 2007

  • President's Report
  • IIS to Perform Role in CDC's Countermeasure Response Administration System
  • AIRA Launches New Initiatives Aimed at Reaching HP 2010 IIS Goal
  • Maine -- Improved Vaccine Management
  • MCIR Implements a New Clinical Record -- Physicians are Ecstatic!
  • Work from the Trenches: New Guidelines and Evaluation Efforts
  • Oregon / Washington IIS Data Exchange
  • Working with the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR) 

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February 2007 Special Edition

This special issue was originally published in September, 2006, to inform NVAC on the progress of IIS integration and data exchange with other health information systems. The issue was updated in February, 2007, in preparation for the 2007 NIC.

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January 2007

  • President's Report
  • Countrywide rates: Using ALERT to produce population-based immunization rates
  • Integrating vaccine management functionality into the Washington States CHILD Profile IIS
  • New IIS report will focus on progress, challenges, and recommendations
  • The 2007 National Immunization Conference
  • AIRA activities at the 41st NIC
  • Look for these IIS publications in 2007

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September 2006 Special Edition

This special edition of SnapShots was published to inform NVAC on the progress IIS have made in sharing data with other healthcare systems.

  • President's Message
  • IIS Linkages Increasing
  • IIS Communication Across State Boarders
  • Integration of IIS and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems
  • Immunization Data Exchange Between State IIS and the Indian Health Service's Resource Patient Management Software
  • New York Citywide Immunization Registry and Lead Registry
  • VAERS Integration Project
  • MCIR's All Hazards Module
  • VFC and Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Integration into New Jersey IIS
  • KIDSNET and Rhode Island's Statewide Health Information Exchange
  • MCIR/School Immunization Recordkeeping System Project
  • Public Health Informatics Institute Launches Business Case Model for Integration of Child Health Information Systems

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June 2006

  • President's Message
  • CDC Survey on IIS Pan Flu Preparedness
  • Pandemic Flu Pre-Conference Workshop at 2006 NIC
  • Taking CRA by the Horns -- Wyoming Style
  • PHII Debuts New Unique Records Portfolio
  • AIRA's Best Practice of the Month

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February 2006

  • President's Report
  • AIRA at the 2006 National Immunization Conference
  • HELP WANTED -- AIRA Committees and Workgroups Need Your Help
  • NIP Welcomes New Director
  • NIP Launches Redesigned IIS Web Site
  • ECBT to Promote IIS in an Effort to Decrease Immunization Disparities
  • Business Processes Project Defines Work of Public Health

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