Every Child by Two Partners with AIRA
to Help Reach Strategic Plan Goals

Every Child By Two is thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with AIRA to help accomplish the goals of the Strategic Plan that was developed (with much outside input) by NIP’s Systems Development Branch. ECBT recognizes that AIRA’s membership has the expertise to facilitate the sharing of data between managed care organizations (MCOs) and registries and we look to you to help us accomplish this important goal. With the support of AIRA’s Aurora Oliva, we will continue to build on the relationships established during our July 2002 MCO meeting, and we will reach out to at least 10 additional MCOs by the Fall of 2003. Two of our key objectives are the creation of a MCO data sharing best practice document and a start-up manual to guide MCOs that wish to begin data sharing with registries.

We will work diligently to market and distribute the CD-ROM “Health Care Providers Speak Out on Immunization Registries,” which was aired and disseminated at the 2002 Immunization Registry Conference. We strongly encourage AIRA members to have their registries apply for consideration as a pilot project that will include the distribution of the CD-ROMs to private providers in your area. ECBT will work closely with the Health Care Provider Workgroup to evaluate whether the CD-ROM encouraged providers to contact local registries. The results of this evaluation will help us determine whether a mass printing for distribution to providers nationwide would effectively market the benefits of registries and result in increased private provider participation. Please visit our website at www.ecbt.org/registryform to provide us feedback on the CD-ROM and to enroll for consideration as a pilot project.

Source: Amy Pisani, Every Child by Two

January 2003 SnapShots Headlines