November 2022 Monthly Update
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Register to attend and reserve your hotel room today to join us next May in San Diego, California! The AIRA 2023 National Meeting will be a great opportunity to continue our work together to ensure healthy communities through the development and implementation of immunization information systems.
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Early-bird registration closes Sunday, April 2. |
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The Board Spotlight is a new addition to the Monthly Update, providing both AIRA staff and the IIS community the opportunity to learn a little about each AIRA board member. Every month, we will feature a different board member. This month, we are getting to know board president-elect Heather Roth. Heather is joining us from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. |
Q: What is one thing you would like to say to the IIS community? You are now more important and relevant than ever.
Q: Tell us about your favorite or worst job in high school or college. It was a blend of best and worst. I worked in an ice cream shop, meaning I got unlimited free ice cream. At the same time, I didn’t alternate my scooping arm frequently enough, so by the end of the summer my right forearm was significantly larger than my left.
Q: What would you tell someone who is thinking about joining the AIRA board? Do it without hesitation and don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. It’s awesome.
Q: Finish this sentence: “Wouldn’t it be great…” If we had a 35-hour work week!
Q: What’s one thing you have learned from an AIRA workgroup or committee? I’ve been involved in a lot of AIRA committees over the years. The one that stands out to me is the Assessment Steering Committee that sunset a couple years ago. It helped open my eyes to different things that programs are doing, and all were so creative.
Q: Favorite childhood sport? Soccer
Q: Share a person or experience that influenced your IIS career in a positive way. Migrating from a legacy system to a commercial off-the-shelf product. Working through that process, learning a new system, creating testing, training, and everything that just goes into a system conversion. This learning process has really helped me going forward in my career.
Q: If you could have any food right now, what would it be? Dark chocolate
Q: Is there anything new your organization is working on/toward that you would like to share? Yes! Something I’m excited about is how our public health information systems are incorporating sexual orientation and gender identity into our systems in a standardized way. It really helps to increase health and vaccine equity. |
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Data at Rest Moving into Assessment AIRA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the members of MACAW (the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup) achieved consensus at the July 2022 in-person meeting to move 45 Data at Rest (DAR) measures currently in Testing and Discovery into the Assessment stage of the Measurement and Improvement (M&I) Initiative. As the next step in the M&I process, AIRA prepared and disseminated draft DAR Assessment measures and tests in early fall to the IIS community for review and feedback. In total, AIRA received 34 comments. On November 10, AIRA reviewed proposed language to address and reconcile the comments in the final version, which MACAW unanimously approved. AIRA, CDC, and MACAW sincerely thank the community for their critical input to produce the final Measures and Tests for DAR, coming soon to the AIRA repository. IIS participating in M&I will receive communication via the Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART) in January 2023 regarding measurement and sharing settings to participate in DAR Assessment.
Save the Date: 2023 Interoperability Training course AIRA staff are currently preparing materials to host the next edition of the Interoperability Training series this January and February. This six-week course is focused on immunization messaging and is intended for programmatic and technical IIS staff. Participants will attend weekly sessions and complete “homework” to learn the structure and importance of HL7 V2 immunization messages, leading to a basic understanding of the programmatic implications of this data capture. Certificates of completion are available for those who attend 80% of sessions. Course registration will open mid-December.
Updated Q3 2022 reports Individual IIS reports are available and can be accessed via AART. Updated aggregate Assessment and basic and complete Validation reports for Transport, Submission/Acknowledgment, Query/Response, Data Quality Incoming/Ongoing, and Clinical Decision Support are available in the AIRA repository for third quarter 2022.
Updated technical assistance (TA) catalog In collaboration with CDC and PHII, AIRA offers TA to IIS and their partners to increase alignment with national standards and improve interoperability between data exchange partners. AIRA’s TA offerings include virtual and on-site options to meet a range of needs, including provider onboarding, epidemiology support, and data visualization services. AIRA recently updated its catalog of available services and resource offerings to the IIS community. Anyone from the IIS community is invited to review the updated catalog and submit requests for TA via AIRA’s online form.
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