Description

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH)maintains an Immunization Information
System known as CHIRP (Children and Hoosier’s Immunization RegistryProgram). The
purpose of CHIRP is to collect, forecast, manage, and share vaccinedata to registered medical
providers in Indiana. A provider may include private medicalfacilities, local health
departments, hospitals, schools, and pharmacies. The program is rununder the Indiana Code
16-38-5 which allows for providers and their designees to accessdata from CHIRP. In
addition an individual also may access their personal or theirdependents vaccine record
from either the registered CHIRP provider or directly from theIndiana State Department of
Health.

As an update to the existing process, ISDH has created theMyVaxIndiana Immunization
Portal which enables a person to access a vaccine record from anycomputer. To begin this
process a registered CHIRP provider will create a patient ID number(PIN) which will grant a
person specific patient access to the record they have requested. Aparent or guardian could
request a PIN to view their dependents immunization history, or anyindividual could do the
same for their own record. They then have a number of options as tohow their data can be
viewed and saved. This includes an option to print and save theOfficial Immunization
Record, download the record into a file format that may becompatible with their Personal
Health Record system (PHR), or have it faxed or mailed to them.