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DECEMBER 20, 2023

This year, give yourself the gift of invaluable insights and lasting connections by joining us for the AIRA 2024 National Meeting!

Visit our AIRA 2024 National Meeting website to register to attend, book your hotel, and learn more about this year’s meeting location. As an AIRA 2024 National Meeting attendee, you’ll have access to specially priced Disney theme park tickets.

We are looking forward to learning from you May 7–9 in Orlando, Florida!

Before your schedule gets too hectic with the holiday festivities, be sure to add our next Discovery Session to your calendar! Join us on Monday, January 22, from 4 to 5 p.m. ET as we learn about the Immunization Data Exchange, Advancement and Sharing (IDEAS) project, an initiative to improve data sharing capabilities between health information exchanges (HIEs) and IIS.

During the session, you’ll hear about:

• The value of HIEs in working with IIS – Kate Ricker, Civitas
• Lessons learned from IIS jurisdictions participating in the IDEAS project, including:
  • Eliza Ramsey, Alaska
  • Kim Gulliver, Colorado
  • Brian Napier, Ohio
  • Tim Neely, West Virginia

There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the webinar.

Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email which contains 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.

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 Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. with “Information Request” in the subject line.

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 Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

Open Information Requests 

The Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC) staff would like to explore possible solutions (either technical or business process improvement) to better support users who need to contact their organization’s designated administrator. MIIC staff would like to hear what other jurisdictions are doing to connect users with their organization’s administrator for user account management. Are users able to look up their organization’s administrator themselves without IIS staff involvement?

If you are willing to share information, please reach out to Lizz Wenzel at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. or Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. by Wednesday, January 3, and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up. 

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Looking for some IIS content to read this holiday season? Check out the December edition of SnapShots, AIRA’s quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS. This edition of SnapShots features articles addressing IIS data gaps by urbanicity, PHII’s 2023 resources recap, and a new Tech Corner piece on health IT security.

AIRA’s Publication Project Workgroup (PPW) was launched in 2022 to foster the increased publication of peer-reviewed IIS-related articles. As part of this effort, AIRA created a “collegial queries” email address, Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.. You can send publication-related questions to this email address, and subject matter experts (SMEs) from the PPW will respond. Any publication-related questions are welcome.

Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed by the PPW collegial query SMEs are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect official policy or positions of AIRA or the organizations the SMEs represent.

In July 2023, AIRA, CDC, and MACAW (the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup) launched a new measurable concept, HL7 Patient Matching, into the Testing and Discovery phase of the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) initiative. Patient matching is the process of identifying and linking a patient’s data across different health systems to create a comprehensive view of that person’s health care record. Initial reports were released in AART for participating IIS to view and assess alignment with MACAW-informed measures and tests for this area.

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