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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Discount Codes

As a benefit of AIRA membership, key contacts within member organizations should have received discount codes via email yesterday! If you are a key contact and did not receive your code, please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Submit your Abstracts for #AIRA2025

There is one month remaining to submit your abstracts for the AIRA 2025 National Meeting! The AIRA National Meeting provides a platform to showcase the progress happening throughout the IIS community. Submit your abstract to be considered for a standard breakout presentation or to lead a group discussion. The Call for Abstracts will close on Sunday, November 17, 11:59 p.m. ET, and speaker notifications will go out on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. We invite you to share your insights and help shape the future of IIS!

More guidance regarding the abstract submission process can be found by reviewing the Call for Abstracts Overview Flyer or visiting www.airanationalmeeting.org. 

As part of national efforts to provide additional clarity on national specifications to support the interoperability of immunization information between systems and contribute to the next evolution of the HL7 Implementation Guide (IG), the Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee (SISC) approved topics for two technical small groups.

These small groups rely on community champions and volunteers to contribute subject matter expertise and work closely with AIRA and CDC over a four-week period to produce Technical Advisory Bulletins (TABs) on Patient Names and ACK Messages.

• Patient Names Small Group (October 21 – November 22)
  • This TAB will address legal names, baby names, preferred names, and special characters.
  • Kickoff Session: week of October 21
  • Working Session: week of November 4
• ACK Messages Small Group (November 4 – December 13)
  • This TAB will address improvements to ACK messages that may be included in the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule.
  • Kickoff Session: week of November 4
  • Working Session: week of November 18

If you are interested in participating in one of these small groups or want to learn more, please send an email to Rebecca Sandtveit at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Nathan Bunker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Register today for the upcoming AIRA Members and Partners (M&P) meeting on Monday, October 21, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. AIRA M&P quarterly meetings provide important updates from AIRA and partner organizations and are a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community. The agenda is now available! Click the button below to view it.

Members and Partners meetings are held on Zoom, and we hope you can join us. Recordings of past meetings can be found in the AIRA Repository.

Join us for the next AIRA Discovery Session on Monday, October 28, from 4 to 5 p.m. ET to hear about lessons learned on immunization data exchange after 20 million immunization messages were exchanged. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been exchanging, tracking, and analyzing immunization messages to understand the reasons behind data exchange successes and failures. This presentation will share VA’s findings and will allow the audience to hear from the Ohio IIS, which has the highest data exchange success rate with VA. There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the webinar.

Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email with links to add the meeting to your calendar.

If you’re unable to attend, this session will be recorded and available in the AIRA Repository. We hope you’ll join us on October 28!

AIRA members can submit and review information requests—a circulation of questions to and answers from the community. To submit an information request to the IIS community, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with “Information Request” in the subject line.

Open Information Requests

• The Virginia and North Dakota immunization programs are looking for information from other jurisdictions related to calculating cost allocations for Medicaid funding applications. 
  • If you have received Medicaid match funding in the past, can you please share details on how you determined/calculated cost allocations for the IAPD application (e.g., based on percentage of population in IIS on Medicaid, etc.)? Please provide as much detail as possible.  
  • Is your jurisdiction currently working on applying for Medicaid match funding to support your IIS? If yes, can you share any further details about funding levels and purposes for which you are applying?
• If you are willing to share any relevant information, please send it to Christy Gray at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Molly Howell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, October 23.

Information requests are viewable only by individual members and individuals affiliated with member and partner organizations. Recent information requests can be found by using the “Information Requests” filter in the AIRA Repository. Just log in to view these valuable resources! If you have any questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Important changes are coming to the Smarty address cleansing service license currently provided by AIRA to members through a partner agreement. Beginning late November 2024, AIRA’s license will be upgraded from the legacy Standard Edition of the US Address Verification service to the Core Edition of the US Address Verification service. This transition to the Core Edition provides additional benefits, including enhanced matching and access to 20 million non-USPS addresses. Non-postal addresses are locations where people live and work. These addresses are places where USPS does not deliver mail but where packages can be delivered.

Once the license upgrade is complete, Smarty users will need to update their API call to Smarty. We will share more detailed information in the coming weeks so please stay tuned for more updates as we begin the transition to the updated service!

Please contact Tesha Lucas with any questions or concerns at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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