40 Million
Messages per Month
AIMS Platform
AIMS is a cloud-based hub for exchanging vital public health data. With over 40 million messages sent every month, AIMS provides critical infrastructure for public health entities to safely and quickly share disease and other health data so the right information gets into the right hands quickly to inform decision making and disease surveillance.
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About the APHL Informatics Messaging Services Platform
Originally developed by APHL in 2008 as a mechanism for states to report influenza data, AIMS has since expanded to serve as the nation’s public health data exchange platform. AIMS provides the critical infrastructure for public health laboratories, federal partners, healthcare organizations, private sector laboratories and other public health entities to safely and quickly share disease and other health data so outbreaks can be identified and contained as they’re happening.
AIMS ensures that the right information gets into the right hands quickly to inform decision making and disease surveillance and is the default data exchange solution for public health in the 21st century, all while adhering to the most stringent security standards, including FISMA and HIPAA compliance.
200+
Public Health Partners
40,000+
Healthcare Partners
1,000+
DASH Users
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Benefits of AIMS
Routing messages through the AIMS services greatly enhances the users’ ability to manage data exchange routes and trading partners; once a trading partner is on AIMS, they can send and receive with any trading partner already on the Platform with minimal effort rather than maintaining multiple connections to a variety of senders and pollers.
In addition, the translation and transformation services that AIMS offers make it easier for agencies and laboratories to exchange data with a variety of senders and receivers. AIMS provides interoperability between a variety of transport protocols, which allows a sender using one protocol to send data securely to a receiver that uses another. Transport protocols that the Platform can process include PHIN MS, Direct, IHE XDR, NwHIN, CDR, Web Services, AWS S3, SFTP and VPN.
Additional benefits to using AIMS include:
- Common architecture and services
- Shareable open source architecture
- Centralized processing and message routing
- Real-time monitoring and audit systems
- Reduced data translation and transformation complexity
- Reduced development and support costs
- Flexible capacity technical infrastructure
- Five-year authentication certificates
- Vocabulary and HL7 message support
- Experienced and dedicated technical support
- Strengthened security and compliance
Data Exchanged on AIMS
The AIMS Platform securely transports millions of messages on a monthly basis. Examples of data currently exchanged through AIMS include:
- Aggregated influenza test result data from public health laboratories to CDC
- Vaccine-preventable disease reports from Testing Centers of Excellence to CDC
- Biological threat data from laboratories within the Laboratory Response Network to CDC
- Immunization data exchange among several public health jurisdictions
- Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) between eligible hospitals and their respective jurisdictions
- National Quest ELR data to all jurisdictions
- Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) through the Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program
- Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) between healthcare providers and jurisdictions across the US
- Electronic Test Orders and Results (ETOR) between public health laboratories and their data exchange partners via Detor
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