AIR reporting requirements

For Communicare to be able to upload immunisation information to the AIR, and to meet reporting requirements the following elements must be complete.

Table 1. Elements required to upload immunisation information to the AIR, and to meet reporting requirements
Element Required for transmission to AIR Required for nKPI, NT AHKPI, NSW KPI reporting
Valid PKI Certificate installed on the Communicare production server ✔ ✖
Encounter place configured with AIR Provider number ✔ ✖
Clinical item configured with AIR Export code ✔ ✔
Services.ini configured ✔ ✖
Firewall exceptions opened ✔ ✖

Biographics - names

Names must include only alphabetic characters and hyphens without surrounding spaces.

✔ ✖

Biographics - addresses

Addresses must not include PO Box numbers in line 1 or 2 of the address field.

Address names must include only alphabetic characters and hyphens without surrounding spaces.

✔ ✖

Biographics - locality

A locality with a postcode number recorded in the patient's biographic

✔ ✖
Biographics - a valid Medicare number ✔ ✖
Immunisation qualifier - Dose this Course or Dose Number ✔ ✖
Immunisation qualifier - Serial Number

Required for some immunisations such as Comirnaty

✔ ✖

Clinical Item - age-based immunisation review completed

Review;immunisation;Birth|2 month age|4 month age|6 month age|12 month age|18 month age|4 year age|50 year age

✖ ✔
Clinical Item - Immunisation;influenza brand type ✖ ✔