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Appointment Scheduling Integration

Explores whether IIS could support or integrate with vaccination appointment scheduling systems. This emerged during COVID-19, where scheduling tools were of...

Consumer Access

Consumer Access to Records

Enables individuals to access their immunization records directly from IIS. This may use FHIR APIs, patient portals, or digital credentials like SMART Health...

Consumer Access

Consumer Identity & Access

Supports identifying and authenticating individuals to access their immunization records. This may involve identity verification, login credentials, and secu...

Consumer Access

Consumer Record Corrections

Supports allowing authenticated individuals to request corrections to their immunization records. This could include submitting updates, flagging issues, and...

Consumer Access

Digital Vaccine Cards (SMART Health Cards)

Supports issuing verifiable digital vaccination records using SMART Health Cards, originally implemented for COVID-19 vaccines. Some IIS have deployed this c...

Consumer Access FHIR

Digital Vaccine Cards (SMART Health Links)

Provides a standardized way to issue verifiable digital vaccination records to individuals. Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic using FHIR-based data mode...

Consumer Access FHIR

International Patient Summary (IPS)

Supports sharing a standardized summary of patient health data, including immunizations, across countries or systems. This uses FHIR-based profiles designed ...

Consumer Access FHIR

Official Record Documents (PDF)

Supports generating official immunization records in PDF format for patients or providers. This is a common output requirement but not tied to a specific int...

Consumer Access

Patient Record Matching

General topic about improving matching, including how patients are identified and how these identities are resolved between systems during interoperability.

Consumer Access FHIR HL7 v2

Query by Parameter (QBP)

Query by Parameter (QBP) allows for querying systems to retrieve immunization histories, immunization evaluations, and immunization recommendations.

Consumer Access HL7 v2

Vaccine Availability Search

Explores providing services to help individuals locate available vaccines, often based on inventory or provider location. This emerged during COVID-19 as sep...

Consumer Access