Progress in development of immunization registries--United States- 2000.

Immunization registries are confidential- population-based-

computerized information systems that attempt to collect

vaccination data about all children within a geographic area.

Registries are an important tool to increase and sustain high

vaccination coverage by consolidating vaccination records of

children from multiple providers- generating reminder and recall

vaccination notices for each child- and providing official

vaccination forms and vaccination coverage assessments. One of the

national health objectives for 2010 is to increase to 95% the

proportion of children aged <6 years who participate in fully

operational population-based immunization registries (objective

14.26). To assess the status of immunization registry development-

CDC analyzed self-reported data from 62 immunization grantees on

the basis of data from the 2000 Immunization Registry Annual Report

(IRAR). This report summarizes the results of this analysis- which

indicate that approximately half of the grantees are operating

population-based immunization registries that target their entire

catchment areas/ however- approximately 75% of children aged <6

years still need to be included in an immunization registry to

reach the national health objective.