National Vital Statistics System improvements [July 2015]

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• Description:
  Each year, NVSS collects information on 6.5 million birth, death, and fetal death events occurring in the 57 U.S.Vital registration areas (50 states, New York City, District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories). NCHS also works with eachVital registration area and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)—representing stateVital statistics offices—to collectVital registration data and to improve timeliness and data quality.
  
  Efforts to improveVital records are ongoing—they involve NCHS’ support of states in implementing electronic birth and death registration systems and completing the implementation of the 2003 revised standard certificates in all jurisdictions. Electronic birth and death records will improve timeliness of data, allow for transfer of data between states, and integrateVital statistics with public health surveillance systems. As of 2013, NCHS completed the funding of remaining states seeking assistance for development and implementation of a web-based electronic birth registration system (EBRS). Similar progress has not been made with electronic death registration systems (EDRS). As of March 2015, 45 of the 57Vital registration areas have an operating EDRS, although some of these systems are still not operating statewide and many data providers (especially physicians) are not using them to enter death information.
  
  factsheet_nvss_improvements.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Vital Statistics
• Series:
  NCHS Fact Sheet
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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