American Immunization Registry Association

National meeting - aira's national meeting provides an annual opportunity to bring aira's peers and partners together. Through both formal presentations and informal discussions, attendees have an opportunity to strengthen long-term partnerships, develop new relationships, gain professional education and training, and learn from one another. During the year ended september 30, 2024, it was attended by 585 in-person attendees. During the year ended september 30, 2023, it was attended by 545 in-person attendees.

Other programs/projects - aira offers support and services for a number of smaller projects that include the following:amda - aira worked with the society for post-acute and long-term care medicine (amda) to identify barriers to the use of iis by long term care facilities (ltcfs). Aira lead the development of a mapping document that described the interoperability standards between ehr vendors and iis, including recommendations for bridging any gaps in standards. Aira also provided subject matter expertise to support a virtual stakeholder roundtable with facilities, consultant pharmacies, ehr vendors, and iis leaders to summarize barriers and identify recommendations to improve iis access and connectivity for ltcfs.astho - aira provided program planning and implementation, technical, policy, and research support to the association of state and territorial health officials (astho) for the onc immunization data exchange, advancement and sharing (ideas) program. Specifically, aira supported the following activities: project planning, project initiation, management, engagement and communication, conducting a national landscape assessment and analysis of current hie and iis status and dynamics, developing a final comprehensive ideas program state technical assistance plan, initiating and executing the ideas program state technical assistance plan, and evaluating project impact, sustainability and conclusion.hmis - aira worked with homeless management information systems (hmis) to improve the exchange of data between homeless systems and iis. The purpose of this project was to improve interoperability of these jurisdictional data systems by identifying ways to integrate these systems to provide better immunization data on people experiencing homelessness. Aira developed a landscape analysis that documented opportunities, challenges and solutions to integrate hmis and iis systems. Aira also develop criteria to assess the suitability of jurisdictions as future pilot sites for the integration of hmis and iis systems. Additionally, aira identified key roles, participant recommendations and implementation guidelines for the development of a community of practice platform to bring together key stakeholders.pfizer - aira received an independent medical education grant from pfizer to better understand the unique implementation challenges and success factors involved in onboarding pharmacy systems to iis while also raising awareness of the value that iis integration brings to pharmacies. This project involves working closely with select iis programs and pharmacies to understand their onboarding practices and data exchange processes. Insights gathered will inform a pharmacy onboarding to iis needs assessment. Aira is also developing on-demand training for pharmacy staff to help raise awareness of iis functionality and the value that iis integration brings to pharmacies.