The interoperability analyst is responsible for promoting, implementing and ensuring standards-based interoperability between the IIS and other information systems to obtain high quality data in the IIS and facilitate IIS data sharing with providers, schools, health plans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other IIS and other partners. A key activity for this role is to onboard immunization providers by establishing and maintaining a Health Level 7 (HL7) interface between the jurisdiction’s IIS and the provider’s electronic health record (EHR) system, pharmacy information system or a health information exchange (HIE).

In addition, interoperability analysts work to enable providers, pharmacies and other partners, e.g., health plans, schools or colleges, to query the IIS for immunization records in real time to help bring individuals of all ages up-to-date on recommended immunizations. They also create or maintain and update the interface between the IIS and vital records for timely IIS capture of all births, deaths and adoptions in the jurisdiction. Interoperability analysts ensure timely and complete IIS data submissions to CDC, interoperability with CDC’s VTrckS system to support Vaccines for Children (VFC) and other vaccination programs, and collaborate with CDC, the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), other IIS and other national partners to implement interjurisdictional data exchange via the IZ Gateway.

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