Emory School of Public Health
Department of Global Health
201 Dowman Drive
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30322
Email:
somer@emory.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Eighty-four percent (54/64) of IPMs responded to the survey. Fifty-seven percent (31/54) of IPMs indicated provider registration in their IIS was a precondition for receiving H1N1 vaccine. Forty-nine percent (25/51) indicated data entry into their IIS was mandatory for providers, and 44% (20/45) indicated providers were generally compliant with entering data into their IIS. Program managers who indicated IIS data entry was mandatory for providers were more likely to report provider compliance with entering data into IIS than IPMs who indicated data entry was not mandatory (p=0.06). Activities in which IPMs believed IIS to be most valuable included tracking vaccine coverage rates, tracking vaccine inventory, supporting mass immunization clinics, and reminder/recall for follow-up doses