BACKGROUND:
The relentless struggle to develop, maintain and evolve an immunization registry with the ever-changing landscape of new technologies and public health business rules defines a normal day at the office for many. The Programmatic Registry Operations Workgroup (PROW) provides the Standards of Excellence to guide our efforts. However, state laws governing use of immunization, medical and vital record information will affect the implementation of these standards. In addition, to external and legacy systems integration complicates matters as well.

OBJECTIVE:
To understand why and how applying dynamic business rules improves extensibility and maintainability of immunization registries.

METHOD:
The method will consist of visual aids and demonstration of business rules in action.

RESULT:
The program user of the immunization registries will take back ownership of their systems from developers. Business rules changes will be done by end users and not go through a long expensive development process.

CONCLUSION:
Public health agencies no longer have to rely on long and expensive development process to adopt business rule changes. Users can declare and apply rules to working system already in place. Therefore, public health agencies will have greater visibility and control over business logic because rules are not buried in application code. Enabling rapid response for polices, practices and procedures for immunization registries.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1)Understand what are dynamic business rules.
2)Learn how dynamic business rules can be applied to immunization registries.
3)Recognize the benefits of taking control of creating business rules.