Don’t miss your chance to register for the next AIRA Discovery Session on Monday, February 27 at 4 p.m. ET.
During this session, you’ll:
- Learn about the history and purpose of IIS
- Understand key principles and functionality of an IIS
- Hear about national and local policies and their impact on IIS
- Identify how IIS make our communities stronger
All are welcome, so be sure to register today. New staff, existing staff, and program or IIS managers are all encouraged to attend, because let’s face it—who couldn’t use a bit of a refresher from time to time?
Join us for the next AIRA Discovery Session on Monday, February 27 at 4 p.m. ET.
If you’re unable to attend, this session will be recorded and available in the AIRA repository.
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Provider Organization Onboarding for IIS Training | Coming Soon!
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AIRA is excited to announce a second offering of the Provider Organization Onboarding for IIS Training. This training will provide a live, instructor-led, six-week course meant to build and enhance your capacity to conduct provider onboarding in alignment with best practices and recommendations. Mark your calendars because registration for the Provider Organization Onboarding for IIS Training course will open on May 1, 2023! The weekly sessions are scheduled to begin June 15, 2023. Please reach out to Sarah Wible with any questions.
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AIRA 2023 National Meeting Update
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The AIRA 2023 National Meeting provides an annual opportunity to bring our peers and partners together to educate and discuss the latest IIS best practices. AIRA's hotel room block is filling up fast, so be sure to reserve your room soon and register to attend the AIRA 2023 National Meeting! Early-bird registration closes Sunday, April 2. General registration closes Sunday, April 30.
Accepting Award Nominations!
Each year, AIRA awards individuals and teams who are going above and beyond in the community and winners are announced during the AIRA National Meeting. We would like to continue this tradition of recognizing these determined, dedicated, and resilient group of individuals. You can now nominate a friend, colleague, employee, or jurisdiction who deserves to be recognized by completing the AIRA 2023 National Meeting Award Nomination Form. Nominations will be accepted until March 24 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Agenda At-A-Glance Now Available!
Before we know it, we will be in California for the AIRA 2023 National Meeting and we hope you are are just as excited as we are!
We wanted to provide a glimpse of the meeting agenda for this years National Meeting. Agenda At-A-Glance outlines the important activities attendees can expect to take place May 2 to 4.
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The 2023 ACIP Recommended Immunization Schedules have been released! The schedules available present the routine vaccination schedule as well as the approved catch-up schedules. Additional resources and information can be found by visiting www.cdc.gov.
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The Virginia Department of Health is interested in learning how many data exchange/interoperability specialists work within each IIS program. The titles of these individuals may vary by jurisdiction, but these staff are responsible for working with individual providers, large health systems, and EMR vendors to set up, test, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade HL7 VXU and QBP messaging.
If you are willing to share information, please reach out to the Virginia Department of Health and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the number of FTEs/contractors your program has working in this area by Wednesday, March 1 and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up.
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The Minnesota Department of Health is looking for ideas to encourage and support improved timeliness of IIS reporting, and would be interested in IIS programs responses to the following questions:
- What is your experience with mass vaccinators reporting influenza vaccine into your IIS?
- Do you require providers to report vaccines within a specified timeframe? If so, what is the timeframe and what happens if providers report the bulk of their data outside of that timeframe?
- Do privately-owned community vaccinators in your jurisdiction report electronically? If so, is it billing or clinical data?
- In what ways have you supported provider organizations in transitioning from paper-based clinics to technology-based clinics? What barriers did the provider organization face and how did you support overcoming those barriers?
If you are willing to share information, please reach out to the Minnesota Department of Health and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by today, February 22 and don't forget to include your contact information for follow-up.
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IIS Data Quality: New opportunity to measure Data at Rest (DAR) among IIS
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Check out the newly launched Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Initiative Data at Rest (DAR) Assessment content area!
M&I will assess participating IIS against 45 community-selected measures across three key concepts: completeness, validity, and timeliness. IIS jurisdictions interested in participating in DAR can learn more here and submit any questions via AIRA’s technical assistance request form.
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Don't miss out! Make a new epi friend with Epi Connect!
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With the immunization world changing so quickly, sometimes you just need to phone a friend. The next time you encounter a tricky data question, you could have a peer waiting on the other end!
AIRA’s Epi Shared Services (ESS) invites all IIS epidemiologists (epis) and data analysts to register for Epi Connect, a program in which AIRA pairs IIS epis/data analysts across the community to provide professional peer support.
Complete the ESS interest form to stay current on all the important resources offered by the Epi Shared Services (ESS). Everyone who extracts, analyzes, interprets, visualizes, reports out, or interacts with IIS data is welcome!
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Are you interested in working for AIRA or in the IIS community? AIRA is seeking two full-time positions:
AIRA is seeking a full-time Human Resource Manager to perform and manage day-to-day HR operations and the administration of HR policies, programs, protocols, and procedures. This position closes on Friday, March 3, 2023.
AIRA is seeking an Administrative Assistant to perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. This position closes on March 10, 2023.
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To be notified of future contracting opportunities, please sign up here.
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Check out the AIRA Calendar for upcoming events!
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Stay up to date on upcoming AIRA committees, board meetings, webinars, events, and more.
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Pedro Pascal, if you're reading this, I bet you're a fun-gi!
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