Monday, October 18, 2004 - 3:55 PM
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Evolving Technologies – Lessons Learned: Washington’s CPIR Application Migration

BACKGROUND:
Being an initial AKC grantee, the state of Washington developed one of the first immunization registries in the nation. The Child Profile Immunization Registry (CPIR) has been in existence since 1993. As with any mature registry, the immunization registry is actually much more that the application itself. The application is one component, but the support staff, marketing and recruitment staff, technologists, stakeholders, etc all play as vital a role in the registry as the application. CPIR has traversed an eventful and successful path during the past 10 years ultimately leading to the point where the application needed to evolve. The decision made by the Department of Health was to replace the CPIR application with a new application. Such a decision had large ramifications throughout the CPIR user community, the support and technical staff, as well as key stakeholders.

OBJECTIVE:
Describe the reasons why the decision was made, the plan to choose a new application, and the application deployment plan. Lessons learned from all areas will be discussed.

METHOD:
User feedback on requirements, internal DOH management meetings, strategic plans, RFP processes, vendor award, requirements gathering, software development, piloting, deployment, training.

RESULT:
The decision to upgrade the CPIR application was the beginning of a long and arduous process. Creating the RFP, choosing a vendor, gap analyses between applications, software development, piloting, deploying, training - all were accomplished within a 1.5 year span.

CONCLUSION:
Your registry application today, wont be your registry application in ten years. Information systems must evolve. Staying up with technology and provider requirements / capabilities is critical. The more mature your registry, the more effort and planning will be required to ensure a smooth transition from the incumbent solution to a new one.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe the reasons why CPIR needed to evolve.
2. Describe the process in choosing the correct solution.
3. Describe the gap analysis process and the issues that might arise.
4. Describe the level of effort related to deploying
5. Describe the transition process and options.


Web Page: https://test-fortress.wa.gov/doh/childprofile/iweb/main.jsp

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