Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG

Project Name
Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG

Project Number
1475

Project Type

Product Family

Products

Project Intent
Implementation Guide

Ballot Type

Project Need

Bidirectional exchange of mortality data between PHA Vital Records offices and NCHS is essential to effective public health surveillance and emergency response efforts. Automation of the reporting process adds efficiencies that dramatically improves the efficacy of event response, data analysis, and evidence-based measurable prevention of the causes of death.

The VRDR FHIR IG will provide guidance for the use of standard FHIR resources as a conduit for data required by vital records death reporting. The use of FHIR as a platform for automation of vital records death reporting is expected to improve existing automation by enabling wide-scale adoption and leveraging the potential of electronic health records and clinical decision support systems.

The VRDR FHIR IG will lay a foundation for expansion of automated standards-driven information exchange to include tributary flows of information from entities such as physicians, medical examiners, coroners, funeral directors, and family members to public health agencies and between public health agencies and secondary users of detailed mortality data and aggregate statistics.

Objectives and Deliverables
Review and assess existing internal and external work products related to VR death reporting - Target: 07/01/18 - 10/05/18 Document the workflow and information requirements of VR Mortality and Morbidity reporting - Target: 09/10/18 - 10/26/18 Prepare profiles of applicable STU 3 FHIR Resources; leveraging existing profile definitions where possible. - Target: 09/17/18 - 11/02/18 Prepare the ballot ready version of the VRDR FHIR IG and obtain approval to proceed to ballot - Target: 10/08/18 - 11/16/18 Prepare the VRDR FHIR IG for inclusion in the January 2019 FHIR ballot - Target: 11/05/18 - 11/30/18 Ballot the VRDR FHIR IG as a STU specification - Target: 12/03/18 - 01/04/19 Conduct post-ballot comment reconciliation - Target: 01/07/19 - 02/15/19 Apply ballot driven modifications to the VRDR FHIR IG - Target: 2/11/19 - 03/15/19 Prepare the publication ready version 1.0 of the VRDR FHIR IG - Target: 03/18/19 - 04/19/19 Submit v1.0 of the VRDR FHIR IG for publication - Target: 04/15/19 - 04/26/19 Prepare PSS and workplan for trial use of the VRDR FHIR IG - Target: 04/22/19 - 05/24/19

Project Document Repository
https://confluence.hl7.org/display/PHWG/Vital+Records

Collaboration Efforts
How much content for this project is already developed? 60% Was the content externally developed (Y/N)? GT, Mitre, NCHS

Dependencies

Stakeholders
Clinical and Public Health Laboratories, Quality Reporting Agencies, Regulatory Agency,Clinical and Public Health Laboratories; Local and State Departments of Health; Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health); Other (specify in Misc. Notes below),Health Care IT; Clinical Decision Support Systems

Implementers
1) State Vital Record departments in CA, FL, NH, NY, GA, MI 2) NCHS

External Drivers
N/A

Common Names
VRDR, FHIR, NCHS, EDRS, NVSS

Lineage

External Vocabularies
Yes

Backwards Compatibility
N/A

Joint Copyright