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JANUARY 10, 2024

Your content for the March edition of SnapShots is due Monday, January 22. SnapShots is a great way to stay connected and share the important work you’re doing with your peers.

It’s very easy to submit an article for consideration. Just email your article to either Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. or Gabriella Wagoner (Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.). Remember, to be considered for inclusion, your content must relate to a jurisdiction or have a jurisdiction as a co-author.

We look forward to sharing your work!

Don’t forget to register for our first Discovery Session on Monday, January 22, 2024, from 4 to 5 p.m. ET. During this session, you’ll 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.

The following topics will be discussed:

• 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.

Please join us for the upcoming AIRA Members & Partners meeting on Monday, January 29, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. AIRA Members & Partners 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. Members & Partners meetings are held on Zoom.

The registration link will automatically take you to Zoom.

We hope you can join us. Recordings of past meetings can be found in the AIRA repository.

We want to make sure everyone is prepared for this year’s AIRA 2024 National Meeting, so we have created a #AIRA2024 To-Do List!

#AIRA2024 To-Do’s:

• Register to attend.
• Book your hotel.
• Learn more about this year’s meeting location.
• Check out the specially priced Disney theme park tickets.

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

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..

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Want to learn a bit more about AIRA? The AIRA 2023 Annual Report is the best place for a crash course in all things AIRA. This report offers a comprehensive overview highlighting our accomplishments and many activities throughout the past year. We encourage you to take some time to read and share this report. With your help, we have continued to promote the use of IIS, enhance collaboration, advance best practices, and drive meaningful results for public health policy. Thank you for all your support!

Interested in improving the data quality of patient-level and vaccine-level data elements within your IIS? All IIS are invited to participate in M&I’s (Measurement and Improvement Initiative) latest content area, Data at Rest (DAR). This content area includes three sets of measures to assess completeness, validity, and timeliness of IIS data for newborns to 2-year-olds. Participating IIS can see how their IIS data align with national and community data quality standards, obtain IIS-wide and provider-level reports to guide improvement efforts, and achieve strategy successes related to the IPOM’s Chapter D activity to “analyze provider and IIS level patient demographic and vaccination data.” Check out the July 2023 AIRA Discovery Session to learn about DAR participation and see a demo of the DAR tooling from AIRA specialists using real reports from Arizona. Thanks again to Arizona for sharing their reports with the community.

AIRA, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and MACAW (the Measurement and Assessment Certification Advisory Workgroup) have updated IIS participation materials for the new year, which are now available in AIRA’s repository. Interested IIS can update their M&I participation in DAR via AART (Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool) or submit AIRA’s online form to get started.

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