The Kentucky Immunization Program (KIP) worked persistently to ensure additional protection for Kentucky’s children through increased and/or enforceable immunization requirements. The new legislation was drafted, reviewed, open for public comments, and finally passed after two years of dedicated work by…
[2018 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner!] After identifying a gap of HPV first dose coverage among 11-12-year-olds, The New Jersey Immunization Program developed an approach to assist healthcare providers to quickly and easily assess how well they are administering HPV first dose…
To help raise awareness around National Infant Immunization Week, and to encourage providers to ensure that the data they submit to the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR) is accurate and timely, the immunization program created the “Wisconsin BigShots Awards” to recognize…
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted outbreak activities and extended community interventions during their measles outbreak that began in April of 2017. Most of the cases were within the Somali-Minnesotan community and could have been attributed to declines in MMR…
Reminder/recall systems are an evidence-based strategy to increase immunization coverage among children and adolescents. To expand and enhance the recall function in New York City’s IIS, provider-based text message recall functionality was added to the IIS to alert parents of…
The Minnesota Immunization Program implemented an innovative data analysis method to examine coverage rates across social determinants of health to better target outreach activities. By linking race, ethnicity and parental birth country data from birth certificates with immunization data from…
Implementation of a recurrent electronic newsletter allows the Washington State immunization program to connect with and inform their IIS users about vital updates and information related to their daily immunization work with the IIS. The program distributes a monthly electronic…
Tennessee: The Tennessee Immunization Program developed a monthly report, coined the “3-Star Report,” as a continuous quality improvement measure for local health departments (LHD) aimed at increasing bundled administration of Tdap, Men-ACWY, and HPV vaccines during the same visit. The…
The New York State Department of Health mailed centralized reminder recall letters statewide (excluding NYC) to parents and guardians of boys and girls ages 11-13 years old who had either initiated but not yet completed the HPV vaccine series or…
Due to a backlog of healthcare providers interested in electronic data exchange with the Colorado IIS, the Colorado program completed a Quality Improvement project intended to improve the cycle time for IIS interface implementation. The average onboarding time was…