Podcasts
Therese Hoyle on the informatics behind immunizations
In this episode, Therese Hoyle, long-time veteran of immunization information systems (IIS), shares her perspectives on the early days of IIS and how technology has transformed public health systems.
Exploring immunization information systems with Mary Beth Kurilo
Oregon state IIS veteran and AIRA leader Mary Beth Kurilo joins the podcast to explain how state information systems keep the U.S. population healthy and vaccinated.
Mary Beth Kurilo’s professional path
On this bonus episode of PHII’s podcast, Mary Beth Kurilo returns to the podcast to share her own professional story and explain what led her to the world of immunization information systems.
Blogs and Stories
Data Modernization Stories from the Field
PHII provides a set of multi-media, deep-dive stories on individual jurisdictional data modernization journeys. These stories are intended to provide lessons learned, emerging promising practices and inspiration to other STLT agencies beginning or continuing their data modernization journeys.
A use case in IIS considerations for DMI, from Michigan
A team from the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR) joined PHII’s Data Modernization Learning Community call to share their lessons learned from data modernization.
Launching a new immunization information system in Oklahoma
This blog describes PHII’s collaboration with the state of Oklahoma to support the development and rollout of their new IIS.
Challenges and changes: preparing a new generation of IIS managers
Each year, PHII hosts training for new immunization information system managers under CDC funding; this blog describes the training, and explains why the work of IIS managers is foundational to good population health.
AIRA, immunization and public health’s “moon mission”
PHII’s former director Dave Ross (also former president of The Task Force for Global Health) describes his experience keynoting AIRA’s national meeting and reflects on his years with the IIS community.
Lending a hand to IIS managers, the unsung heroes of immunization records
This blog describes the first year of PHII’s CDC-funded IIS manager training.
This series of historical spotlights tells stories from the history of IIS through the lens of different key themes: