BACKGROUND:
The PROW Standards of Excellence guide a registry in effectively supporting other program components within a 317-funded immunization program, such as assessment, consumer education, provider quality assurance, VFC, and surveillance. The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), in collaboration with NIP and the Association of Immunization Managers, developed these concrete and actionable standards of excellence or best practices as a way to encourage closer integration between registries and the rest of an immunization program.

OBJECTIVE:
To learn how the PROW standards can increase the coordination and cost-effectiveness of an immunization program.
To learn the processes used and lessons learned by several demonstration sites in adopting the PROW standards.

METHOD:
Presentation with examples and discussion.

RESULT:
Increased knowledge of how the PROW standards can increase the coordination and cost-effectiveness of an immunization program.

CONCLUSION:
Best practices and the experience of demonstratin sites highlight how much registries have to offer other components within an immunization program.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. To learn a wide variety of concrete ways registries can support other program components.
2. To learn how the PROW standards can be used to enhance a registry application, prepare specifications for a new registry application, and in preparing the annual 317 grant application.