Our Work

AIRA provides a forum through which members combine efforts, share knowledge, and promote activities to advance IIS and immunization programs.

Steering Committees

Steering committees guide the development of projects and activities in four key areas: assessment, education, best practices, and interoperability.

• Assessment Steering Committee (ASC)
  ASC generates and disseminates guidelines and recommendations to assess and improve data quality, functional capacity, and data use.   

• Education Steering Committee (ESC)
  ESC promotes standards and best practices via educational activities. 

• Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW)
  MIROW develops best practice recommendations.
  
  
• Standards & Interoperability Steering Committee (SISC)
  SISC provides technical support and guidance to interoperability efforts.

Workgroups

Workgroups manage specific projects or activities to support and strengthen the IIS community.

• Joint Development & Implementation (JDI) Advisory Workgroup
  JDI Advisory Workgroup strives to broaden and formalize the planning, coordination and implementation for knowledge transfer regarding best practices for IIS development and for collaboratively developed products.
  
  
• Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup (MACAW)
  MACAW researches and formulates key IIS assessment components, develops pilot metrics, and implements IIS assessment.

User Groups

User groups bring community members together to discuss specific issues that they have in common.

• HL7 Immunization User Group
  The HL7 Immunization User Group supports IIS and EHR implementers globally as they work to create and maintain immunization interfaces. This user group is a joint offering of HL7 International and AIRA.
  
  
• Awardee-Developed Joint Development User Group
  All IIS staff with awardee-developed IIS and their vendors/implementers are invited to monthly webinars to discuss topics of joint development.
  
  
• Address Cleansing and Geocoding User Group
  All IIS enrolled in the Address Cleansing and Geocoding program as well as prospect IIS are invited to this monthly conversation where participants compare, discuss, and troubleshoot implementation of SmartyStreets.

Joint Development & Implementation (JDI)

JDI works to broaden and formalize the planning, coordination, and implementation of knowledge transfer regarding best practices for IIS development and collaboratively developed products.

• Address Cleansing Service
  AIRA provides access to an address cleansing service for all IIS programs that are AIRA members.
  
  
• Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) Tool
  The Message Quality Evaluation (MQE) tool assesses message quality for incoming HL7 messages. 

• Interjurisdictional Exchange
  Interjurisdictional Community of Practice is a forum for working together as a community to address common IIS-IIS data exchange barriers and solutions.

Measurement and Improvement Initiative

The IIS Measurement and Improvement Initiative provides IIS with information and guidance to align with the IIS Functional Standards.

• Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART)
  AART is an application developed to visualize and compare how an IIS is operating in relation to current standards and best practices.
  
  
• Testing and Discovery
  Testing and Discovery gathers preliminary information on community alignment with standards.
  
  
• Assessment
  IIS Assessment involves formal testing to measure individual IIS using community-selected measures and tests.
  
  
• Validation
  Validation acknowledges and shares results for IIS that are progressing toward or achieving alignment with community-selected measures and tests.

Standards & Best Practices

AIRA works with the IIS community to identify operational issues that need best practice and standards development and to develop community-informed products.

Global

AIRA works with international partners to support immunization information systems around the world.

Technical Assistance Resources

AIRA offers technical assistance to our members, as well as training videos, FAQ documents, and webinars.

• Technical Assistance Training Videos
  Technical assistance training videos provide short trainings on a variety of a topics.