Immunization Registries

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MU Requirements

Meaningful Use Measures:

Performed at least one test of certified EHR technology's capacity to submit electronic data to immunization registries.


Certification Criteria for EHR:

Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit immunization information to immunization registries in accordance with the standards% specified in Table 2A row 8 (HL7 2.3.1 or HL7 2.5.1) or in accordance with the applicable state-designated standard format.

Requires the CDC Implementation Guide for HL7 Version 2.3.1, or the new 1.0 guide using HL7 Version 2.5.1.


Available interface file formats for NJ Immunization Registry

  • NJIIS XML Schema V. 1.0
  • Delimited Immunization Upload
  • HL7 v 2.3.1. Message type VXU v04 (Unsolicited vaccination record update).
  • HEDIS XML
  • HEDIS CSV
  • HEDIS CSV with Provider Info

Available file transfer protocols for NJ Immunization Registry

  • SFTP
  • HTTPS

Proposed Solution

1. Add an "injection site" to immunization form. The rest of the form looks good.

Effected Code, Tables, etc

Owner and Status

Design - Tony McCormick (MI2) and Thomas Wong (Intesync)

Status: California Specs collected on 1/22/2010, demographic requirements added to OpenEMR

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