KEYWORDS:
Indian Health Service, Data Exchange, USIIS
BACKGROUND:
The Indian Health Service (IHS) and many tribal facilities use an immunization information system called the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) Immunization Package to collect and track immunizations. In order to capture IHS/Tribal immunization data, the Utah Statewide Immunization Information System (USIIS) collaborated with IHS to develop a method for data exchange between the RPMS system and USIIS.
OBJECTIVE:
To develop HL7-compliant automatic data exchange between the IHS RPMS Immunization package and USIIS.
METHOD:
USIIS staff will discuss progress in the IHS/USIIS data exchange project to date, identify challenges and strategies to overcome these challenges, and lessons learned
RESULT:
Progress in establishing data exchange between USIIS and the IHS’s RPMS system continues to be made. Challenges encountered by the USIIS staff and the IHS/Tribal sites participating in this project include garnering political support for the process, providing technical support at both the IHS/Tribal sites and USIIS to develop and implement the data exchange, and ensuring data quality. Strategies used to overcome these challenges will be discussed
CONCLUSION:
Connecting other immunization information systems with state immunization registries is an important step towards ensuring complete participation in state immunization registries. The lessons learned by USIIS staff through the data exchange project with IHS’s RPMS system are applicable to other types of data exchange that may occur between state registries and other immunization information systems.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand status of data exchange between IHS/Tribes and USIIS
2. Understand challenges in and strategies for connecting other immunization information systems with state immunization registries
Back to The Indian Health Service HL7 Data Exchange Project: Lessons Learned
Back to The 2003 Immunization Registry Conference (October 27-29, 2003)