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In July 2001, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) committed to the development of a 3-5 year strategic plan to ensure reaching the 2010 immunization registry national objective - to increase to 95% the proportion of children (ages 0 - >6 years) participating in a fully operational, population-based immunization registry . Although the dedication and hard work of public health professionals throughout the U.S. have resulted in immunization registry progress in every state, only 24% of children are participating in population-based immunization registries.
The strategic plan is intended to provide a roadmap of activities required to reach the 2010 registry objective. Although the plan was to focus on NCIRD's responsibilities, it was acknowledged that achieving the 2010 registry objective would depend on the experience, shared vision, and collaboration of all immunization registry partners. Thus, although the plan was envisioned to be broad in scope and outline all national activities required to meet the registry objective, many of the identified activities will be applicable to the state and local levels.
Approximately 50 representatives of NCIRD and its partners, including registry developers, informatics experts, immunization providers, immunization program managers, federal stakeholders, software developers, and non-governmental organizations, were chosen as planners. With assistance from Soza and Company, Ltd., a three-step development process was identified: 1) an analysis of the current environment in NCIRD and the Immunization Information Systems Support Branch (IISSB) (NCIRD's lead immunization registry activity); 2) the creation of a draft plan reached by consensus; and 3) the achievement of plan buy-in from the registry community at the national, state, and local levels, as well as from senior NIP management.
As intended, the plan is ambitious and broad, however, each of its activities is considered critical to achieving the registry national objective.
References
- US Department of Health and Human Services. Immunizations and infectious diseases. In: Healthy People 2010 (conference ed, vol 1). Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2000:14-41--2. Available at http://www.health.gov/healthypeople (exit). Accessed January 16, 2002.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Immunization Registry Use and Progress - United States, 2001. MMWR. 2002;51:53-56.
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Content last reviewed on November 20, 2006
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
