17 November 2023
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Important information on the cutover to AIR A reminder that from 25 November 2023, the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) will replace the National Immunisation Register (NIR) and the COVID-19 Immunisation Register (CIR). We encourage you to view our website here to view further details. What do GPs need to know about the transition to AIR? •
If you currently use a Patient Management System (PMS) connected to the NIR to record vaccinations, please continue to use your PMS to record all vaccinations. At cutover we will lift those connections over to AIR.
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Covid-19 vaccines will be made available to record in PMS systems.
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If you don’t use a NIR connected PMS, you will need to move from using the NIR/CIR to using the AIR vaccinator portal to record all vaccinations. We encourage you to view our website here to view further details.
What does the cutover experience look like for GPs? Before cutover •
PMS Software Vendors will send out release communications approximately oneweek before cutover. These will detail the changes, timings and action required by PMS users.
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From Wednesday 22 November 2023, please complete any status queries required for any planned clinics held between 25-27 November. Status queries will be unavailable from 1am Saturday 25 November – 9am Monday 27 November.
During cutover At 1am (0100) on 25 November 2023. •
You will not be able to login to the CIR (except for CIR Inventory).
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You will need to use paper recording forms to record Covid-19 vaccinations. You can find these form here.
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You can continue to record other immunisations you normally record directly into your PMS. This will message to Healthlink (Healthlink will hold the messages until AIR is ready to receive them).
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You will not be able to view vaccination history in CIR, NIR or AIR, or any integrated systems that connect to these registers. Operate following the best practice/Immunisation handbook guidance for catch-ups or working in absence of historical immunisation information.
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A PMS will not have status queries returned to them. (That request will be held at Healthlink until AIR is reconnected and this message is received by AIR).