Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

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CIIS Mission


The mission of CIIS is to establish and maintain a confidential, population-based, fully functional and sustainable immunization information system for the State of Colorado which tracks immunizations for Coloradans of all ages, assists healthcare providers with the appropriate immunization of their patients, helps prevent disease across Colorado, and reduces healthcare costs to individuals and the State.

 

CIIS is an integral unit of the Colorado Immunization Program whose mission is to decrease the incidence of vaccine-preventable disease in Colorado by assuring appropriate and complete immunization of all Coloradans through education, outreach, technical assistance and tracking administration of immunizations.

 

CIIS Vision Statement

 

The vision of the Colorado Immunization Information System is to be a secure and confidential immunization information system that will efficiently and successfully assist healthcare providers in appropriately immunizing Coloradans against vaccine-preventable diseases.


CIIS Goals 2010 to 2011:
  • 95% of all Colorado children under the age of six years will have at least 2 immunization records in CIIS.
  • All public health (including community and rural health) and pediatric clinics, 60% of family practice clinics and 25% of emergency departments in Colorado will have web access to CIIS.
  • All public health (including community and rural health), 90% of pediatric clinics, 50% of family practice clinics and 25% of emergency departments in Colorado will report to CIIS regularly.
  • All Colorado school districts will have web access to CIIS Web access.
  • Develop and support bi-directional, real-time HL7 messaging.
  • Implement and maintain CIIS in accordance with the National Vaccine Advisory Committee functional recommendations and standards of operation.

CIIS Long Term Goals:
  • Utilize appropriate technology to ensure the highest quality immunization information system for our clients.
  • Protect the privacy and confidentiality of all data in the immunization information system.
  • Extend access and achieve regular reporting by all ‘non-traditional” immunization providers.
  • Integrate CIIS with other private and public healthcare delivery information systems to ensure accurate and complete immunization information.

 

CIIS History

 

In 1996, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) was awarded a five-year grant known as the Colorado Rural Immunization Services Project (CRISP). One mission of the grant was to develop, implement and evaluate an immunization tracking system. In 1997, UCHSC purchased, installed and supported site-specific immunization tracking software. Thirteen sites in four target counties went "live" with these local databases in September 1998. Site-specific databases were combined into one regional database in 1999. Because of the difficulty of maintenance involved in the client/server system, UCHSC developed a web-enabled SQL server which was implemented in July 2001 - the central immunization registry database now known as the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS).

 

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) entered into a contract with UCHSC in 2002 which authorized UCHSC to operate the CIIS application under the Colorado Infant Immunization Act as part of a statewide registry. The CDPHE contract provided support for maintenance and development of the CIIS web application. UCHSC operated CIIS until December 2008 - when CIIS made its formal transition to CDPHE.