ImmPRINT

Note to All Providers

Our latest ImmPRINT enhancement is coming in October 2020. The Alabama Department of Public Health, Immunization Division, will be providing free supplemental Adult Influenza (Flu) Vaccine along with ancillary supplies for ImmPRINT providers. For more details, see our Adult Flu Vaccine Flyer. All interested providers will be able to place an order for this free supplemental flu vaccine in our new vaccine ordering management module VOMS (Vaccine Ordering Management System). This module will be available in ImmPRINT in October. The requirements to receive this free supplemental adult flu vaccine include, but are not limited to the following conditions: the provider must be registered in ImmPRINT, follow CDC's storage and handling guidelines, serve target populations, and enter administered vaccine data back into ImmPRINT within 72 hours. In the near future, we will be sending out details about COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes available.

ImmPRINT 

Immunization Patient Registry with Integrated Technology (ImmPRINT) is a statewide population-based information system for all children born in Alabama since January 1, 1993 and adults.

If you are a healthcare provider, school, child care center, or pharmacy and want to enroll, please choose this link if you have questions: immprint@adph.state.al.us.

ImmPRINT Enrollment Benefits

• Print only ADPH approved Certificate of Immunization
• Use Vaccine Forecaster to ensure the best medical decision
• Run Vaccine Coverage Rate Report and compare your practice against others by County and State
• Supports both uni-directional and bi-directional interface

Data Exchange

• Providers pay their vendors for their EHR (Electronic Health Record).
• Provider/staff must verify what their vendor is doing or not doing.
• Provider/staff is the only entity that can ensure its vendor's compliance.
• IMM will support providers/staff to "Be the Boss" by scheduling a three-way conference call with the provider, the vendor, and the ImmPRINT staff.  To schedule a conference call, email your request to immprint@adph.state.al.us
• "Be the Boss" Flyer
• Onboarding Roadmap
• HL7 Master Guide
• HL7 Error Guide and FAQs
• Switching Vendor Guidelines
• Data Sharing Agreement

Questions a provider is supposed to ask their EHR vendor prior to picking an EHR

• Has the EHR passed Testing and signed DSA with ImmPRINT?
• Does the EHR product have bidirectional functionality?
• ImmPRINT requires real time transmission, what is the estimated time lag for data transmission?
• If needed, can the EHR transmit all the vaccine records present in the EHR prior to the interface setup?
• HL7 Interface Checklist for Providers

ADPH has been requested by Alabama providers statewide to supply the list of EHR vendors who have signed the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) for HL7 onboarding.  ADPH is not endorsing any vendors, but simply providing the requested list.  Since September 2016, the following vendors have signed the DSA and established unidirectional or bidirectional interface.  Please click here to view the list.

ImmPRINT Meaningful Use (MU) 

Declaration of Readiness for Modified Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU)

Readiness Statement
ImmPRINT accepts electronic immunization data submissions from Eligible Professionals’ (EPs) and Eligible Hospitals’ (EHs) certified electronic health record (EHR), to fulfill the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program and the MIPS Advancing Care Information Quality Payment Program for Public Health MU Reporting Objective - Immunization Registry Reporting.

Therefore, no Alabama EPs or EHs administering vaccines can receive exclusion to the Public Health Reporting MU Objective- Immunization Registry Reporting.

ImmPRINT accepts MU Exchange Standards listed below:
· MU Modified Stage 2 HL7 Version 2.5.1
· MU Stage 3 HL7 Version 2.5.1

ImmPRINT currently is accepting Query/Response, Acknowledgement Messages, and National Drug Codes (NDC) for encountered vaccines.  ImmPRINT utilizes the CDC HL7 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Immunization Messaging, Release 1.5 and Addendum.

ADPH has been requested by Alabama providers statewide to supply the list of EHR vendors who have signed the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) for HL7 onboarding. ADPH is not endorsing any vendors, but simply providing the requested list. Since September 2016, the following vendors have signed the DSA and established unidirectional or bidirectional interface.  Please click here to view the list.

Enhancements

Enhancements are scheduled to be implemented on the first Friday of each month. Please click on the link below to see the new enhancements.

2020 Enhancements (All enhancements will be related to June 1st changes.

• 2019 Enhancements
• 2018 Enhancements
• 2017 Enhancements
• 2016 Enhancements

ImmPRINT Resources

• Steps to Assigning Students Manually in ImmPRINT
• Steps to Assigning Students by Spreadsheet (for Private Schools and Childcare Centers)
• Example of ADPH approved COI printed from ImmPRINT.
• Exchange of Immunization Information and Operation of the Alabama Immunization Registry
• State Law Governing Exchange of Immunization Data
• Immunization data can be shared with other immunization data users, schools, day care, etc., without the patient's permission, to learn more see HIPAA Letter.
• Vaccine Coverage Rate Report Flyer

Page last updated: September 24, 2020