Immunisation Information Systems – useful tools for monitoring vaccination programmes in EU/EEA countries, 2016

Derrough, Tarik; Olsson, Kate; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Simondon, François; Heijbel, Harald; Danielsson, Niklas; Kramarz, Piotr; Pastore-Celentano, Lucia

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2017.22.17.30519

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“…4 Federal funding provided by ONC has partially supported the expansion and testing of STC's MyIR since 2014. 5 Sustainment of public health immunization registries and technical infrastructure is the subject of a separate STC paper, "Sustaining the Public Health Immunization Ecosystem through Public Private Partnerships." 6 The content and concepts of this paper are based upon STC's 25 years of working in the immunization registry sector, which includes implementing state public health IIS, implementing electronic HL7 connections to every state IIS from over 30,000 pharmacies and 10,000 providers, and using data and analytics to tell the story of the power of the ecosystem.…”

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“…Another large part of the health information system are immunization information systems (IIS) where individuals who have received vaccines are documented in a confidential computer based system in a specific geographic area [4]. The IIS can be used for disease surveillance purposes and provide valuable information to public health authorities [5]. As an extension of one of the existing IISs, MyIR was created where any state IIS, pharmacy or provider can provide patients direct access to family state immunization records -regardless of the type of immunization information system used.…”

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The Power of Consumer Activism and the Value of Public Health Immunization Registries in a Pandemic: Preparedness for Emerging Diseases and Today’s Outbreaks

Popovich

Watkins

Kudia

2018

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Public Health immunization registries and the immunization ecosystem have evolved over the past two decades to become significant population health data assets. Clinical providers and pharmacists are reporting the immunizations given to their patients to public health registries in 49 states and all territories, creating consolidated immunization event patient records.Most of these immunization events are reported through the provider’s Electronic Health Record system (EHR), Pharmacy Management System (PMS), online, or through data uploads. Meaningful Use and health data standards (HL7) became the drivers that accelerated reporting to immunization registries and significantly improved the quantity and quality of the data. The infrastructure supporting the Immunization Ecosystem (IE) has enabled real-time compliance reporting and, more importantly, real-time patient queries. The provider community now has online access to a patient’s immunization history in over three quarters of the states, and growing. This access includes a forecast of the patient’s immunization gaps provided by public health decision support tools based upon the most recent ACIP recommendations. This is creating an opportunity for the provider and the patient to work together to reduce their risk of suffering a vaccine-preventable disease. This IE and the data in an Immunization Information System (IIS) are especially useful as pharmacies expand their immunization practices and create opportunities to reduce the adolescent and adult immunization gaps.In a few states, this provider-public health ecosystem has begun to extend to individuals by allowing them to access the IIS online through the use of MyIR. MyIR provides them with the electronic version of their immunization "yellow cards," recommendations for immunizations due, and the ability to print official certificates. This emerging consumer engagement creates opportunities to empower individuals to be more proactive in their family’s health care.This paper builds upon early experiments to empower individuals in this ecosystem by leveraging the value of these public health data assets and trusted communications, illustrating the possibilities for engaging consumers to support reducing the impact of emerging diseases, outbreaks and the next pandemic. This paper will suggest the value of the IE and the role individuals can play within their own social networks to advance public health efforts to manage disease events. In turn, this social mission would encourage consumers to be more proactive in managing their own healthcare.

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The Power of Consumer Activism and the Value of Public Health Immunization Registries in a Pandemic: Preparedness for Emerging Diseases and Today’s Outbreaks

Popovich

Watkins

Kudia

2018

OJPHI

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“…The UK, for example, has committed to integrating a range of disparate datasets with bloodborne virus surveillance systems to inform the care and management of people tested for and diagnosed with these conditions 58 . And several countries in Europe routinely link national immunisation registers with communicable disease surveillance systems to inform vaccine safety and effectiveness studies 59 . Finland, for example, has established real‐time data linkage between their national immunisation and communicable disease registers to facilitate comprehensive and timely vaccine effectiveness studies 60 …”

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Use of data linkage to improve communicable disease surveillance and control in Australia: existing practices, barriers and enablers

Rowe

Stephens²,

Cowie³

et al. 2019

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objectives: To review the use of data linkage by Australian state and territory communicable disease control units, and to identify barriers to and enablers of data linkage to inform communicable disease surveillance and control activities. Methods: Semi‐structured telephone interviews were carried out with one key informant from communicable disease control units in all eight Australian states and territories between October 2017 and January 2018. Results: Key informants from all Australian states and territories participated in the interview. A variety of existing practices were identified, with few jurisdictions making systematic use of available data linkage infrastructure. Key barriers identified from the review included: a lack of perceived need; system factors; and resources. Existing regulatory tools enable data linkage to enhance communicable disease surveillance and control. Conclusions: We identified considerable variation in the use of data linkage to inform communicable disease surveillance and control activities between jurisdictions. We suggest that routinely collected, disparate data are systematically integrated into existing surveillance and response policy cycle to improve communicable disease prevention and control efforts. Implications for public health: Existing gaps in communicable disease surveillance data may affect prevention and control efforts. Data linkage is recognised as a valuable method to close surveillance gaps and should be used to enhance the value of publicly held health data.

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“…Available data suggest low vaccine coverage for a number of vaccine-preventable diseases in healthcare professionals in some EU countries [33]. …”

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Building Eminence through Evidence

Horgan¹

2017

Biomed Hub

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With modern-day medicine going the way it is - new developments, great science, the advent of personalised medicine and more - there's little doubt that healthcare can move in the right direction if everything is put in place to allow it to do so. But in many areas progress is being halted. Or at the very least slowed. Like it or not, many front-line healthcare professionals still do things the way they did things three decades ago, and are reluctant to adapt to new methods (assuming they are aware of them). Evidence exists that today's rapidly developing new medicines and treatments can positively influence healthcare in modern-day Europe, but a gap in education (also applying to patients and politicians), often exacerbated by “fake news” on the internet, is hampering uptake of new and often better methods, while even causing doubts about vaccines. More understanding at every level will inevitably lead to swifter integration of innovation into the healthcare systems of Europe. The time to look, listen and learn has come.

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Immunisation Information Systems – useful tools for monitoring vaccination programmes in EU/EEA countries, 2016

Cited by 44 publications

References 17 publications

The Power of Consumer Activism and the Value of Public Health Immunization Registries in a Pandemic: Preparedness for Emerging Diseases and Today’s Outbreaks

The Power of Consumer Activism and the Value of Public Health Immunization Registries in a Pandemic: Preparedness for Emerging Diseases and Today’s Outbreaks

Use of data linkage to improve communicable disease surveillance and control in Australia: existing practices, barriers and enablers

Building Eminence through Evidence

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