Vital Records Common Library (VRCL) STU2-ballot, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/vr-common-library/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Credits

Project Team

Project Facilitators

The Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Records (DVS) facilitated the project in collaboration with the NVSS Modernization Community of Practice (CoP), and the DVS Statistical Analysis and Surveillance Branch (SASB). Contributors from CDC/NCHS/DVS included:

• Paul Sutton, Acting Director of DVS
• Kate Brett, DVS Office of the Director
• Cynthia Bush, Health Scientist (Informatics), DVS Office of the Director
• Alaina Gregory, DVS Office of the Director
• Kelly Brown, NVSS CoP team
• Bontu Fitta (Metas Solutions), NVSS CoP team
• Prachi Mehta, Sr Health Scientist (Informatics), Office of the Director
• Donna Hoyert, DVS/SASB
• Joyce Martin, DVS/SASB
• Claudia Valenzuela DVS/SASB

STU1 and STU1.1 Specification Developers

• Sarah Gaunt, Lantana

STU2 Specification Developers

• Saul A. Kravitz, MITRE
• Robert Passas, MITRE
• Patricia Tran, MITRE

Development Team

• Lantana Consulting Group, Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange.
• MITRE, a not-for-profit organization working in the public interest across federal, state and local governments, as well as industry and academia.

Acknowledgements

• The development of the VRCL implementation guide by the development team was performed under contract to The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Records (DVS) under the direction of the project facilitators.
• STU1 and STU1.1 versions of this guide were developed using Trifolia-on-FHIR and professional guidance provided by Lantana Consulting Group.
• The published content of the STU2 version of this guide was developed using FHIR Shorthand syntax and the SUSHI tookit, a free, open source toolchain from the MITRE. Generous guidance on FHIR Shorthand and SUSHI was provided by Chris Moesel.
• The VRCL FHIR IG is a work product of the HL7 Public Health Workgroup. The HL7 Project Insight reference number for this project is 1616.

Testing Partners

The VRCL project team would like to express a special thanks to the following testing partners in their contributions:

• Jurisdictional Vital Records Community:

• Vendor community