ALERT IIS Training

Inventory Management Webinar (Training Portal) 

The inventory webinar is an overview of the inventory process in ALERT IIS. This is the required training for standard users at VFC organizations that will be helping with inventory.

How to Manage Your Inventory (PDF)

The ALERT IIS inventory module allows users to manage their state-supplied and privately purchased vaccine inventory. This inventory module guide addresses the following topics:

• Viewing inventory
  
• Knowing when to reconcile your clinic's inventory
• Submitting reconciled inventory counts prior to ordering
• Viewing historical inventory counts
• When ALERT inventory and inventory on hand don't match
  

How to Manually Add Inventory (PDF)

New organizations will need to add current inventory and privately purchases inventory will need to be manually entered. This guide will walk you through the adding inventory form.

• Manually inputting vaccine inventory
• Manually adjusting vaccine inventory​
  

How to Manually Adjust Inventory (PDF)

The Modify Quantity screen in the IIS is used to reconcile your inventory. It ensures that inventory in the IIS actually matches what you have in your physical inventory count.

 Inventory Deduction Training (Training Portal)

Troubleshooting electronic inventory deduction

Inventory Borrowing Training (Training Portal)

Troubleshooting electronic inventory borrowing​

Interpreting the Options: Modify Quantity Screen (PDF)

Use this document as a quick reference for explaining all options in the Modify Quantity screen.

This Vaccine Ordering guide addresses the following subjects:

• How to create a vaccine order in ALERT IIS
• How to track an order
• How to receive and accept an order into your inventory
  

How to Transfer Vaccine (PDF)

ALERT IIS allows you to transfer vaccines between sites within your organization, or between two unrelated organizations. This vaccine transfers guide addresses the following subjects:

• How to create a vaccine transfer
• How to accept, reject or partially accept a vaccine transfer

Measures a clinic's accountability for vaccine inventory; enables quick assessment of compliance with Oregon vaccine stewardship law; and shows at a glance how many doses reported as given to eligible patients, expired, spoiled, wasted, or transferred.

Recommended for clinic staff participating in the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program who are responsible for accuracy of reporting vaccine inventory lot numbers and VFC eligibility status on immunizations given to patients. The report can only be accessed by ALERT IIS Super Users, but report contents are useful for any staff managing VFC vaccine inventory in ALERT IIS.

How to Run the Vaccine Accountability Report (PDF)

Can be tailored for a variety of uses including: managing your clinic's list of active patients, determining amounts of vaccine to order, tracking down data entry mistakes made when entering an immunization on a patient's record that prevented immunizations from deducting vaccine inventory in ALERT IIS.

Recommended for providers interested in improving their patient population immunization rates, Clinics participating in the VFC and AFIX programs, Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) and health system administrators wanting to meet performance measures by raising immunization coverage levels and reducing missed opportunities to vaccinate.

 Inventory Deduction Training (Training Portal)

Troubleshooting electronic inventory deduction

Inventory Borrowing Training (Training Portal)

Troubleshooting electronic inventory borrowing

Ad Hoc Report Overview (PDF)

This tipsheet gives a quick overview of the items, factors and filters used to set up a custom report.

Ad Hoc Count Report (PDF)

Instructions for creating the Ad-Hoc Count Report to determine amounts of flu vaccine to prebook for flu season. Intended for clinics participating in the VFC program.

Ad Hoc List Report (PDF)

Instructions for managing your clinic's list of active patients. (A necessary step in conducting an effective reminder/recall immunization project.)

Assesses immunization rates, revealing patterns of missing and late vaccinations across a clinic's population. Patterns of missing and late vaccinations can help identify clinic practices that lead to lower immunization rates. Used in combination with the Benchmark report and Reminder/Recall report, the first report of three used to support immunization quality improvement work.

Recommended for providers interested in improving their patient population immunization rates, clinics participating in the VFC and AFIX programs, CCOs and Health system administrators wanting to meet performance measures by raising immunization coverage levels and reducing missed opportunities to vaccinate.​

Identifies patients that may not be up-to-date with their immunizations. Used in combination with the Assessment report and Reminder/Recall report, the second of three reports used to support immunization quality improvement work.

R​unning the Benchmark Report (PDF)

Short, desktop reference with step-by-step instructions for running the report.