MIIC News Flash

A quarterly newsletter for all active Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC) users with important updates and other information to support their MIIC participation.

October 2024

In this issue:

• Timely and accurate data: It never gets old!
• New COVID-19 and influenza codes
• Watch out: Bad alias records
• Restricted access MIIC record: What it means and what to do?
• Child cares utilization of MIIC
• Planning for nirsevimab administration this year?
• Learning Corner: Pending Clients
• Release updates
• Provider spotlight: Hollie Blilie

July 2024

In this issue:

• DUA at a glance
• DUA user guidance
• MIIC administrator - what do we mean?
• Monitor ACKs/data exchange feeds
• What can you do with the 'manage my account' function? Here are some tips!
• Provider spotlight: Victoria Standley, Sanford Health

Past issues:

May 2024

In this issue:

• Webinar series alert!
• Implement “start at age 9” approach in your clinic: HPV Vaccination Strategies webinar
• Calling all school nurses before summer break
• Know your MMR schedules to improve rates
• Promote actions that can be used to improve rates
• Not sure how to enter non-U.S. vaccines? We’ve got you covered!
• What’s new with the MIIC application?
• Learning Corner: Utilize MIIC Client Follow-Up to improve MMR vaccination rates!
• Provider spotlight: Rice County Public Health’s Angie Nagel

January 2024

In this issue:

• Speedy data submissions
• Learning corner: Data timeliness
• Test data: Think before you send it!
• Monitor data submission with the Vaccine Summary Report
• New recommended ages for HPV in MIIC
• MIIC data and statistics: What's available and where to find it
• New year, new MIIC Data Use Agreement
• Attention MIIC Administrators: Additional annual User Agreement implemented
• Long-Term Care users: Upcoming immunization webinar
• Provider spotlight: Mohammed Selim, Data Quality Advocate

October 2023

In this issue:

• Keeping up with MIIC events: Fall webinar series
• Data corner: RSV vaccines on the rise
• Reminder: Universal adult hepatitis B vaccination recommendation
• Make MIIC records accurate! Don’t forget to update client demographics/addresses as they change
• COVID Pandemic vs COVID Routine vaccine groups in MIIC
• Updated COVID-19 resources are here!
• New RSV vaccine, new code sets
• Provider spotlight: Do you know a data quality champion?
• Learning corner: Forgot your password? Here's what to do next

August 2023

• Routine Immunizations: What are 6-year-old and 13-year-old Minnesotans missing?
• Who are you going to email?
• Reporting a client’s race and ethnicity in MIIC
• New look: Vaccine Summary Report
• Heading out on that end of summer vacation?
• Attention Child care Centers: Upcoming changes to annual reporting
• Provider spotlight: Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health Department and Saint Paul Public Schools partnership
• MIIC learning corner: AKA’s

April 2023

• It’s time to talk about timeliness
• Who is your MIIC administrator?
• MIIC Spring 2023 webinar series
• Accuracy in immunization data reporting
• MIIC postcards coming soon to a child near you
• Client follow-up: Select vaccine group and number of doses already received functionality and uses
• MIIC learning corner: Duplicate client records

January 2023

• MIIC texting program
• Provider spotlight: Providers using text message-based immunization reminders
• Central Minnesota Immunization Connection (CMIC) closure
• Updated resource: COVID-19 vaccine product reference sheet
• Client screen updates
• Coming soon: MIIC user survey
• MIIC learning corner: What is a client?

October 2022

• Happy 20th Birthday, MIIC!
• Exception screen directions
• Find My Immunization Record
• Client follow-up: COVID-19 doses report has expanded
• Save the date: MIIC Biannual Webinar Series
• Reminder: All organizations should have an active administrator
• Reminder: Schools can query MIIC using the bulk query function

June 2022

• Gaps in Pediatric Immunizations
• MIIC Tip: Opt-Out Restricted Record
• New User Guides Available
• Immunization Quality Improvement Program (IQIP)
• Project Spotlight: Successes with Text-based Reminders for Vaccine!

April 2022

• Updated MIIC Password Requirements
• Reporting Correct COVID-19 Vaccine Product
• New Public-Facing Resource for Adding Historical Immunizations to MIIC
• MIIC Tip: Viewing Immunization Details
• Reminder: Schools Can Now Query MIIC Using the Bulk Query Function
• Immunization Quality Improvement Program (IQIP)
• Provider Spotlight: Odam Medical Group

November 2021

• Importance of sending complete and up-to-date demographic information
• Texting project using MIIC data
• Schools can now query MIIC using the bulk query function
• Reminder of allowable uses of MIIC
• Immunization Quality Improvement Program (IQIP)

August 2021

• Gaps in pediatric/adolescent vaccinations
• Reminder/recall adolescent postcard
• COVID-19 data quality – why it matters
• Using MIIC to verify COVID-19 vaccination status
• COVID-19 Single Vaccine Assessment Report
• MIIC regional coordinators

February 2021

• MIIC program updates
  • Reporting race and ethnicity data
• COVID-19 vaccine updates
  • COVID-19 vaccine administration data
  • Historical versus administered doses
  • Immunization spreadsheet
• MIIC application changes
  • View your COVID-19 vaccine order history
• MIIC tips
  • Client record locked to another organization
  • Client record locked to your organization
• MIIC data and statistics
  • Influenza immunization update
• MIIC resources
  • MIIC user guides
  • MIIC webinar series
• Partner spotlight
  • Carver County and Ridgeview health care system partnership