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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Suggest a Keynote Speaker or Topic for #AIRA2025

Do you know of an inspiring keynote speaker or a thought-provoking topic perfect for a keynote that would resonate with the IIS community? If so, we’d love to hear your suggestions!

To share your recommendations, please take a few minutes to complete this short survey by Wednesday, October 9. And keep in mind that while we’d love to host big-name celebrities, our budget is better suited for speakers who are impactful, engaging, and accessible even if they’re not verified on social media!

Thank you for helping us create an inspiring and meaningful experience at #AIRA2025. We can’t wait to see what ideas you bring to the table!

#AIRA2025 Call for Abstracts is Now Open!

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. 

In a previous funding update, it was communicated that the CDC has identified additional funds to support IIS activities in 2024 and 2025. As we continue previously paused activities and address increased demand from the community for our services, we have a need to increase our organizational capacity for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. AIRA is seeking individuals with backgrounds and skills in the following areas:

• Project or Program Management
• Technical Writing
• Program Evaluation
• Data Analysis/Epidemiology
• Operations

• Fiscal Analysis
• Business Analysis
• IT/Health Informatics
• Administrative Support
• Other, please specify

All interested individuals are invited to submit a résumé. Those with immunization program or IIS experience are preferred and strongly encouraged to apply. Please disseminate this announcement to all potentially interested and qualified individuals. For information and guidance on how to submit your résumé, kindly refer to the Request for Résumés PDF.

AIRA is conducting an evaluation of our AIRA Members and Partners (M&P) meetings, and we are requesting 5-10 minutes of your time to complete a brief evaluation survey. Your feedback will shape the future of these meetings. We greatly appreciate any input you can provide by Friday, September 27.

The AIRA M&P meetings are held quarterly in January, April, July, and October. These meetings provide a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community, along with updates from AIRA and some of its key national partners, including:

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
• Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC)
• Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Informatics and Data Analytics Branch (IDAB) and Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST))
• Immunize.org
• National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO)
• Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)

If you have any questions, please reach out to Maureen Neary at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.. Thank you in advance for your valuable insights!

Our next edition of SnapShots, AIRA’s quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of immunization information systems (IIS), will be published in December, and we'd love to feature your work! If you or a colleague are working on something you would like to share with the IIS community, we encourage you to submit an article for consideration by Monday, October 14.

To submit an article for consideration, simply email your content to Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. or Gabriella Wagoner at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.. Please note that submissions must either involve a jurisdiction or include a jurisdiction as a co-author to be considered for inclusion.

We look forward to your submission!

As you may have seen, ASTP/ONC (recently renamed the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability Proposed Rule, also called HTI-2, in the Federal Register on Monday, August 5. AIRA will be gathering and consolidating comments across the IIS and immunization community, and we welcome your input. The rule covers proposed changes for EHR certification regarding immunization exchange (F)(1), as well as proposed Health IT for public health voluntary certification (F)(21), among many other topics.

You can access the proposed rule and/or submit your own jurisdictional/organizational comments here. 

Schedule for comments to be submitted by AIRA:

• Monday, August 5 – Proposed rule published in Federal Register
• Wednesday, August 21 – HTI-2 was discussed at AIRA’s Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee (SISC) meeting
• Wednesday, September 4 – Comments due to AIRA
• Wednesday, September 11 – Comments were reviewed at AIRA’s SISC meeting at 1 p.m. ET
• Wednesday, September 18 – Consolidated comments were shared with IIS community to be incorporated as appropriate into jurisdictional/organizational comments
• Friday, October 4 – All comments due to ASTP/ONC

Thank you for your engagement. If you have questions about the proposed rule or the process, please reach out to Mary Beth Kurilo at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

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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AIRA is excited to announce the launch of our newest initiative, Onboarding Pharmacies to IIS: An Educational Quality Improvement Pilot Project, made possible by a generous grant from Pfizer.

This innovative project will bring together IIS programs and pharmacies to explore the unique challenges and opportunities involved in onboarding pharmacy systems to IIS.

We’re eager to kick off this pilot project and work closely with IIS programs and pharmacies to understand their onboarding practices and data exchange processes. Insights gathered will inform the development of a pharmacy onboarding to IIS needs assessment. AIRA will also develop on-demand training for pharmacy staff to help raise awareness of IIS functionality and the value that IIS integration brings to pharmacies.

Stay tuned for more updates as we move forward with this exciting initiative!

On October 1, 1994, the first vaccinations were delivered by the Vaccines for Children Program. Please join the Association of Immunization Managers, the American Immunization Registry Association, Vaccinate Your Family, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Voices for Vaccines, and Safe Communities Coalition on October 1, 2024, at 2 p.m. ET to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of this extraordinary program. We will hear from key leaders and partners who together support the program credited with saving over 1.1 million lives, preventing 508 million illnesses, and saving more than $2.7 trillion. Join us as we celebrate a program all Americans and taxpayers can be proud of. Registration information will be provided closer to the event but please mark your calendar now. 

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