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JUNE 12, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the presentation slides from the AIRA 2024 National Meeting are now available in the AIRA Repository. For your convenience, all presentations have been linked in the online agenda. Simply use the agenda to navigate to the presentation of your choice. Please reach out to Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. for any questions.

Join us on Monday, June 24, 2024, from 4 to 5 p.m. ET for the next AIRA Discovery Session. Presenters will discuss efforts being made to advance and track emerging standards, such as FHIR, in immunization information systems. During this session, presenters will navigate emerging standards as they support public health data modernization initiatives and provide structured data specifications to meet the needs of public health programs and their partners.

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 and Partners meeting on Monday, July 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET. AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meetings provide important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. They are also a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community. Members and Partners meetings are held on Zoom.

At our next quarterly Member and Partners meeting, we will have a new partner, CDC's Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology (OPHDST), share about their work. During this meeting, we will get an overview from OPHDST, focusing on their work with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). OPHDST's mission is to optimize timely access, exchange, and integration of public health data while driving efficiency and consolidation of data and technology systems supported by CDC across all levels of public health. OPHDST will plan to attend and provide re-occurring updates on AIRA's future Member and Partner calls as well.

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.

Our next edition of SnapShots, AIRA’s quarterly newsletter that highlights the progress, best practices, and accomplishments of IIS, will be published in September, and we want to feature your work! If you or a colleague are working on something you would like to share with the IIS community, submit an article for consideration by Monday, July 15.

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.. Remember, to be considered for inclusion, your content must relate to a jurisdiction or have a jurisdiction as a co-author.

The 2024 SnapShots schedule and previous editions of our quarterly newsletter can be found 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

Wyoming Department of Health would like information regarding childcare facility access to IIS systems.

1. Does your state or jurisdiction allow childcare facilities access to the IIS?
2. If yes, does your state or jurisdiction require any type of agreement, such as a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) or Data Use Agreement (DUA), to be executed prior to access?
3. Does your state or jurisdiction require any form of parental consent prior to allowing access to an IIS or sharing data with a child caring facility?

If you are willing to share, please reach out to Janice Carney at Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. and copy Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. by June 19, and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up.

Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) Cohort 2 RFA Released June 3

In February 2024, the CDC Foundation was awarded federal funds from CDC, through the Association of Public Health Laboratories, to launch the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). The goal of WAI is to strengthen public health agencies and authorities’ (PHA) capacity to deliver information system improvements that are of top priority to each PHA by adding technology and data experts to their teams. 

The application for Cohort 2 of the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) was posted on Monday, June 3, on https://www.cdcfoundation.org/request-for-proposals, and submissions are due on Friday, June 28 by 11:59 p.m. PST. The Cohort 2 application will be similar to the Cohort 1 application, except as noted below. 

The Cohort 2 application differs from the Cohort 1 application in the following ways: 

• Unlike Cohort 1, Cohort 2 will not require that applicants already have planned systems improvement project(s) on which the WAI placements would work. WAI placements might be assigned to a more general role or might be assigned to develop a project. Applications from agencies with planned systems improvement project(s) are welcome in Cohort 2 but having planned systems improvement project(s) will not be required.
• Unlike Cohort 1, Cohort 2 will not require that applicant have already have an individual overseeing information systems improvement to direct the work of the WAI placements. Cohort 2 applicants may request that such an individual be recruited as one of their requested WAI placements. Applications from agencies with an existing individual overseeing information systems improvement are welcome in Cohort 2, but having an existing individual overseeing information systems improvement will not be required.
• For clarity, specific questions in the Cohort 2 application may vary from those in the Cohort 1 application and some questions may be added. The general content requested from PHAs will be similar, along with the content of the required letter of support.

Cohort 1 applicants selected for Cohort 1 are not eligible to apply for Cohort 2. Cohort 1 applicants that were not selected are still eligible and encouraged to apply to Cohort 2.

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At the 2024 AIRA National Meeting, the Standards and Analytics team successfully delivered two AART 101 sessions and 45 AART clinics. The AART 101 sessions provided 13 attendees with a high-level overview of the tool’s navigation basics. The 30-minute AART clinics offered 122 participants from 44 jurisdictions and IIS implementers the opportunity to review M&I results specific to their systems, explore opportunities for improvement, and learn about new M&I measurement areas for data at rest (DAR) and HL7 patient matching.

Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with 96% of the 28 completed evaluation surveys indicating that participants now have a better understanding or a much better understanding of opportunities and potential strategies to improve M&I results. We are excited to continue our collaboration with IIS and look forward to seeing you in Spokane, Washington, at the AIRA 2025 National Meeting next year!

Missed the opportunity at AIRA 2024 or looking to further improve your M&I results? You can request a virtual AART clinic by submitting a technical assistance request.

On May 20, AIRA hosted a Discovery Session on AIRA 2024 National Meeting Highlights. During this Discovery Session, presenters shared highlights from the AIRA 2024 National Meeting in Orlando, including recaps of the following highly rated breakout sessions:

• Assessment of Parental Vaccination Acceptance as a Predictor of Childhood Vaccination, presented by Mary Woinarowicz, NDIIS Manager, North Dakota Health and Human Services
• Deduplication of Temporary Name Records Using Probabilistic Matching, presented by Hannah Forsythe, MCIR Epidemiologist, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

If you or a staff missed the live event, don’t fret! The session recording and presentation slides are now available in the repository. 

Immunization information systems (IIS) can access their individual Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Testing and Discovery, Assessment, and Validation reports for the first quarter of 2024 (January–March) in the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART). Jurisdictions interested in improving their M&I results are invited to submit a technical assistance request to get the conversation started with a member of AIRA’s Standards and Analytics team.

Additionally, the M&I Aggregate Assessment and Validation summary data reports for the M&I content areas Transport, Submission/Acknowledgment, Query/Response, Data Quality Incoming/Ongoing, and Clinical Decision Support have also been updated for the IIS community and can be accessed in AIRA’s repository.

To highlight key impacts and trends from the 12-15 M&I reports published quarterly, AIRA collaborated with the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW) to produce a new highlights summary for the broader IIS community. This one-page summary overview is a helpful, at-a-glance insight into the successes and progress demonstrated by the IIS community during the reporting period. The summary can be accessed in AIRA’s repository. 

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