Welcome
to the updated Immunization Page!
In
an effort to consolidate and organize the rapidly changing
information on vaccinations for children, this page has been
re-organized to make it easier to navigate. The main areas
may be reached by using the links on the left. Important new
links will be listed below.
AAP
District II is consolidating vaccine information so that it is not
duplicated on the Chapter web sites. If you have arrived here by
using a link from a New York Chapter web site, you may return by
clicking here or on the links to the left.
If
you would like to follow current pending legislation regarding
immunizations, click on this
link, then click on the New York area.
The
NYS Department of Health Immunization Program has recently
developed the above document which outlines the guidelines for
immunizing women before, during and after pregnancy. It was
developed based on current recommendations from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices and the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists.
In the single pdf file, you will find the following:
An
introductory letter
Guidelines
document
A
1-page CDC reference chart entitled "Immunization &
Pregnancy"
Frequently
Asked Questions about New York State Public Health Law §2112
NYSIIS was developed as required under Article 21, Title 6,
Section 2168 of the Public Health Law. This law, which took
effect January 1, 2008, mandates health care providers to report
all immunizations administered to persons less than 19 years of
age to the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). The
law also requires that immunization histories of all persons less
than 19 years of age who receive vaccines after January 1, 2008
also be recorded in NYSIIS, if those histories have not already
been reported.
The Public Health Law provided
a two year implementation period to enable providers to be phased
in through continuous regional roll out. Between 2008 and
2010 multiple training opportunities and methods were available to
all providers statewide. It is important to note that those
who are not currently participating are out of compliance with the
legislative mandate. Failure to comply with public health
law may result in monetary penalties. It is imperative that
any provider organization that has not yet attended training or
begun reporting to NYSIIS take the necessary steps to do so by
reviewing the contents of this letter. Classroom trainings
will continue to be available regionally September
through December 2011. Classroom training sessions as
well as live webinar trainings have been scheduled through
2011. In addition, recorded webinar trainings and
self-guided online tutorials are continuously available for use at
your convenience.
The NYSIIS
team is pleased to announce that development of the NYSIIS Online
Self-Guided Training Tutorials is now complete! The NYSIIS
tutorials were designed as a complement to both the classroom and
webinar training methods. These tutorials offer training
participants more training flexibility and an opportunity to
review specific functions and concepts as needed. There are
10 self-paced tutorials that demonstrate the core functions for
utilizing NYSIIS.
Below is a list of the topics
available for viewing:
Tutorial 1: Accessing NYSIIS
& Verifying Organizational Information
Tutorial 2: Adding New Users
Tutorial 3: Searching for a
Patient
Tutorial 4: Entering a New
Patient
Tutorial 5: Viewing the
Immunization History and Recommendation Screen
Tutorial 6: Adding Immunizations
Tutorial 7: Generating Patient
Specific Reports
Tutorial 8: Setting Up the
NYSIIS Inventory Module
Tutorial 9: Entering Schools,
Providers, and Clinicians
Tutorial 10: Generating
Reminder/Recall Letters
Tutorial 11: Ad Hoc Report
Tutorial 12: Assessment Report
Tutorial 13: Benchmark Report
The recorded version of NYSDOH
Bureau of Immunization's Immunization Pot Luck - Ask the
Experts webinar held on Thursday, November 17, 2011 is now
available for viewing. This
link will take you to the NYSDOH Immunization Update Webinar
Series web page where you will find the program and how to access
it. On this web
page are past webinars that may also be of interest to your
members.
This webinar is different from
others we've done. A while ago we sent an email out to those
who have participated in past webinars and asked them for
questions. Those questions (which cover a number of
different immunization topics) and their answers are presented in
this webinar.
Based
on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Health, the
(Insurance) Department has determined that covered
necessary immunizations under the law are those recommended
by the ACIP, and should the ACIP amend its recommendations,
...HMOs will take the necessary steps to provide coverage in
accordance with the ACIP revised schedule, effective as of the
date of the change.
Please direct any questions concerning
the Circular Letter to:
Deborah A. Kozemko, J.D.
Supervising Insurance Attorney
New York State Insurance Department
One Commerce Plaza
Albany, NY 12257
E-mail: dkozemko@ins.state.ny.us
CDC's Vaccine
Information Statements website page (provides downloadable VIS
statements and a link to VISs in other languages): http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/default.htm#download.
Click on "Get Email Updates"
and receive emails from the CDC whenever a VIS is updated.
