Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 10:35 AM
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Developing a school based immunization reporting system within a registry

BACKGROUND:
It is the desire of the Immunization Division of the Department of Community Health that the School Immunization Reporting System (SIRS) be integrated into the Michigan Childhood Immunization Registry (MCIR). Curently there are 3000 daycares and schools with access to the registry.
This new product will be referred to as MCIR/SIRS. The integration will allow the SIRS user community to
take advantage of the distribution network, clinical and demographic data, and assessment logic that already exists within the current MCIR and provide a portal to the web, thus offering a total solution for tracking child immunizations.

OBJECTIVE:
To replace the current School Based Reporting System(SIRS) in Michigan and integrating it with the web based immunization registry system.

METHOD:
Requirements gathering sessions were held to create the technical requirements for the MCIR/SIRS system. The web version will have the assesment logic for school rules that are determined by the administrative rules in Michigan. It will have streamlined reporting and will generate overdue letters.

RESULT:
Using the MCIR as a tool for schools and child care centers to report immunizations reduces time, effort, and money. Schools will no longer need to rely on providers and parents to provide immunization records. Provider offices will no longer be inondated with requests for vaccination records. This also reduces the effort by local health departments in the record assessment process since it is all available on the web. Finally, there is less burden on the parent to supply the immunization record at the time of school entry.

CONCLUSION:
Integrating the School Immunization Reporting System into the registry will save schools and local health departments data entry time. It will save physicain offices time from filling out an immunization forms for all new school enterers.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will learn the process that Michigan used for creating a comprehensive school reporting system.


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