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Barriers To The Effective Implementation Of Immunization Information Systems In A Private Provider Setting, Echezona E. Ezeanolue, Ineada Jack, William Downey, Benjamin Hart, Chad L. Cross
Barriers To The Effective Implementation Of Immunization Information Systems In A Private Provider Setting, Echezona E. Ezeanolue, Ineada Jack, William Downey, Benjamin Hart, Chad L. Cross
Nevada Journal of Public Health
One of the goals of Healthy People 2010 is to increase the proportion of children less than 6 years of age with two or more vaccinations recorded in a fully operational population-based immunization information system to 95%. In 2008, we piloted the Nevada web-based immunization information system (WEBIZ) in a large private pediatric clinic in north-west Las Vegas. Our objectives were: (1) to determine compliance with the recommendation that all vaccine providers report immunization activities to the WEBIZ without a state mandate and (2) to determine perceived barriers to compliance and suggestions on how to overcome expressed barriers. We documented …