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Organizational Support for Immunization Registries

Partner Organizations

• AIRA (American Immunization Registry Association)
• ECBT (Every Child by Two)
• PHII (Public Health Informatics Institute)
• More can be obtained from the AIRA partner organization list

Cooperative Agreements with...

CDC/NCIRD currently has a Cooperative Agreement with these organizations to forge new, and strengthen existing, partnerships with IIS stakeholders; promote the use of IIS as a standard practice in the delivery of health services, and educate stakeholders about the use and benefits of IIS. The following materials have been developed under this agreement:

• Partnering with Health Plans [4.71MKB - 20 pages]
• SnapShots article EMRs [4.17KB - 8 pages]
• PROW recommendations [783KB - 48 pages]
• PROW Demonstration Sites [758KB - 44 pages]
• MIROW (Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup)
  The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), in partnership with the CDC/NIP, is working on a new initiative directed at the analysis and improvement of immunization information system (IIS) operations. The MIROW of AIRA is formed to conduct this work. The goal of this effort is to produce, or grow, an IIS "Best Practice" guidebook for operationalizing registry functionality. The following documents can be accessed from the AIRA website
  • MIROW Chapter 1: Management of Moved or Gone Elsewhere (MOGE) Status and Other Patient Designations in IIS
  • MIROW Chapter 2:Vaccine Level Deduplication in Immunization Information Systems 
  • MIROW Chapter 3: Data Quality Assurance in IIS: Incoming Data
  • MIROW Chapter 3: Mini Guide
• MOGE definition workshop
• Model Data Sharing Law
• IIS Profiles
• AIRA SIGs

Formal Resolutions

• AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics)
  Policy on the Development of Immunization Tracking Systems
• AMA (American Medical Association)
  Policy on the Development of Immunization Registries
• APHA (American Public Health Association)
  Policy 99-LB-4 The Need for Continued and Strengthened Support of Immunization Programs [4.16MB - 67 pages] (page 43)
• AOA (American Osteopathic Association)
• NMA (National Medical Association)

Letters of Support or Endorsement

All letters of support or endorsement (combined into one document)
print version [2.08MKB - 14 pages] or text-only version [23KB]

• AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) Policy on the Development of Immunization Tracking Systems
  

• AAHP (American Association of Health Plans)  
  

• AMA (American College of Medicine)  
  

• AOA (American Osteopathic Association)  
  

• APHA (The American Public Health Association)  
  

• ASHA (American School Health Association)  
  

• ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officers)  
  

• IPAVAPP (Informed Parents Against Vaccine Associated Paralytic Polio)  
  

• NACCHO (National Assoc. of County & City Health Officials)
  

• NAPNAP (National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners)  
  

• NASN (National Association of School Nurses)
  

• USDoE (U.S. Department of Education)

 Links to non-federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the federal government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.

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