RICAIR will award mini grants of up to $4,975 to establish or upgrade an electronic interface between the healthcare professional’s electronic health record and RICAIR. The interface will employ the current HL7 version 2.5.1 Immunization data messaging standard for electronic data exchange. Eligible applicants include healthcare professional offices, independent pharmacies, mass immunizers, school districts, and skilled nursing facilities with a federal Employee Identification Number (EIN) or federal Tax Identification Number. RIDOH will fund mini-grant recipients for partial costs as an incentive and partnership with immunization healthcare professionals to offset some of the cost of interface development. Once in place the interface will provide for the timelier exchange of, and increased completeness of, immunization data reported to the immunization registry (RICAIR), and for some EHRs will allow for bidirectional data exchange.
