Message from the Executive Director
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New Year, New Opportunities – Register for #AIRA2024
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Happy New Year!
It’s officially 2024, and I hope the holiday season gave everyone some time to recharge and spend time with loved ones. My family and I thoroughly enjoyed some much-needed downtime and skiing at some of our favorite local spots.
At AIRA, we closed out our year by attending the AIM and ONC meetings. During the AIM meeting December 5–7, great discussions were had around adult vaccine programs, increasing childhood vaccine rates, and the implementation of maternal RSV. Those who attended were also given the opportunity to hear Scott Hamilton Kennedy present his film, Shot in the Arm, followed by a wonderful keynote address given by Dr. Peter Hotez where he discussed his new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science.
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December 14–15, Eric Larson attended the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting celebrated the go-live of the Trust Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and the release of the HTI-1 final rule. In addition to the festive mood for the recent ONC activities, many new areas of focus were highlighted. Major themes included the critical importance of data, the role of health IT in President Biden’s cancer moonshot, expanding health IT to include human services data (e.g. social determinants of health), CDC’s Implementation Center Request for Proposal (RFP), and rooting out racial bias in artificial intelligence.
As we look forward to January 2024, there are a couple of dates you should be sure to add to your calendars. On January 22, AIRA will be holding the first Discovery Session of the year. Register and join us as we learn about the Immunization Data Exchange, Advancement and Sharing (IDEAS) project. For those of you who submitted abstracts for consideration for the AIRA 2024 National Meeting, speaker notifications will be sent on January 29.
May the new year bring peace, laughter, and success to all.
Rebecca Coyle, MSEd
Executive Director
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Newly Released: AIRA 2023 Annual Report
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The AIRA 2023 Annual Report offers a comprehensive overview highlighting our accomplishments and many activities throughout the past year. We encourage you to take some time to read this report, and of course, we would like to thank you for your support as we continue to advance IIS together. 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.
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You’re Invited to Participate in M&I’s Latest Content Area
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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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SnapShots December Edition
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Do you need help publishing or have questions related to the publication process?
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.
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Mark Your Calendars for the January Discovery Session
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Ring in the new year by registering 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.
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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.
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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.
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New Year, New Opportunities – Register for #AIRA2024
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AIRA employment opportunities
There are no current opportunities at this time.
Opportunities for independent contractors
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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For many people, there's plenty of gratitude and happiness
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