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Project Summary for Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG
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Project Details
Number | 1475 View Ballot Items List (with NIBs) |
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Name | Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR IG |
Sponsor(s) | Public Health Work Group |
Co-Sponsor(s) | |
Steering Division | Clinical |
Description | The scope of this project is to produce and ballot a Standard for Trail Use (STU) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) implementation guide (IG) for use in reporting of death events to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) by State and Local Public Health Agencies (PHA).
The VRDR FHIR IG will be based upon FHIR STU 3 |
Project Facilitator | Paula Braun, Hetty Khan |
Status | STU - Test Period/Accepting Comments |
SD Approval Date | Nov 12, 2018 |
TSC Approval Date | Nov 26, 2018 |
Project Type | Ballot - STU to Normative |
Objectives / 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 |
Next Milestone Date | 2024 September WGM |
Project End Date | 2025 January WGM |
Project Intent | Implementation Guide |
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. |
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Collaboration Efforts | How much content for this project is already developed? 60% Was the content externally developed (Y/N)? GT, Mitre, NCHS |
Ballot Cycle Info | 2021 Sept Ballot Cycle Info: STU Ballot results: Met basic vote requirements. 5 Negatives to reconcile Document Name: HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR), Release 1 - US Realm (See Jira Ballot Dashboard) 2021 May Ballot Cycle Info: STU Ballot Results: Postponed Document Name: HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Vital Records Mortality and Morbidity Reporting, Release 1 - US Realm 2019 May Ballot Cycle Info: STU Ballot results: Met basic vote requirements. 11 Negatives to reconcile Document Name: HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Vital Records Mortality and Morbidity Reporting, Release 1 - US Realm |
Misc Notes | 2023 September: TSC approved Unballoted STU Update Publication Request for Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR Implementation Guide - STU2.2. 2023 February: TSC approved Unballoted STU Update Publication Request for Vital Records Death Reporting FHIR Implementation Guide - STU2.1 2022 August: TSC approve STU Publication Request for Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) Implementation Guide - STU 2 for 2 years 2020 Sept: TSC approved STU Publication Request for Vital Records Mortality and Morbidity Reporting FHIR IG This project replaced project 1278. External Vocabularies: LOINC, RxNorm, and SNOMED-CT Other Providers: Medical Examiners, Coroners, Funeral Directors, and Law enforcement |
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Project Document Repository | https://confluence.hl7.org/display/PHWG/Vital+Records |
Backwards Compatibility | N/A |
Stakeholders | Clinical and Public Health Laboratories, Quality Reporting Agencies, Regulatory Agency |
Vendors | Health Care IT; Clinical Decision Support Systems |
Providers | 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) |
SDO/Profilers | |
Realms | Realm Specific - Enter "U.S." or name of HL7 Affiliate below |
HL7 Affiliate | U.S. |
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Start Date | Oct 16, 2018 |
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