Recommendation for use of immunization information systems to increase vaccination rates.

Recommendation Regarding Increasing Vaccination Rates Through Use of Immunization Information Systems — Community Preventive Services Task Force

Immunization information systems to increase vaccination rates: a community guide systematic review.

CONTEXT Immunizations are the most effective way to reduce incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. Immunization information systems (IISs) are confidential, population-based, computerized databases that record all vaccination doses administered by participating providers to people residing within a given geopolitical area. They facilitate consolidation of vaccination histories for use by hea...

Barriers to the Effective Implementation of Immunization Information Systems in a Private Provider Setting

One of the goals of Healthy People 2010 is to increase the proportion of children less than 6 years of age with two or more vaccinations recorded in a fully operational population-based immunization information system to 95%. In 2008, we piloted the Nevada web-based immunization information system (WEBIZ) in a large private pediatric clinic in northwest Las Vegas. Our objectives were: (1) to de...

Improving Immunization Rates of Underserved Children: A Historical Study of 10 Health Departments

Background Despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. Local Health Departments (LHDs) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   Methods This exploratory research compared ten (10) North Carolina LHDs w...

Influences on immunization rates: Vaccination coverage of mumps, measles, rubella and varicella before and after the STIKO intervention 2011 - A retrospective study.

BACKGROUND In September 2011, the German Standing Committee on Vaccinations (STIKO) changed their recommendation regarding the mumps-measles-rubella-varicella vaccination (MMRV). We compared the immunization rates against MMRV in Germany before and after the STIKO intervention. METHODS We recorded the immunization status of children born between 09/2008 and 08/2012 in 35 selected doctor's sur...