Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) FHIR Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 3.0.0-cibuild built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/vrdr/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Credits

Project Team

The following contributed to the development of the STU3 version of VRDR.

Project Facilitators

• Veronique Benie, Computer Scientist, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics
• Cynthia Bush, Health Scientist (Informatics), CDC/National Center for Health Statistics

Specification Developers

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

Development Team

• MITRE, a not-for-profit organization working in the public interest across federal, state and local governments, as well as industry and academia.

Acknowledgements for

• The development of the VRDR implementation guide by the development team was performed under contract to CDC/NCHS/DVS under the direction of the project facilitators.
• The published content 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 data dictionaries were produced using the makeIJEMappingFromCSVtoHTML.rb script developed by Rob Passas and Patricia Tran. For a description of how to maintain the data dictionary content, please see https://github.com/HL7/vrdr/blob/master/tools/README.md
• The VRDR FHIR IG is a work product of the HL7 Public Health Workgroup. The HL7 Project Insight reference number for this project is 1475.

Testing Partners

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

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
  • Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
• Jurisdictional Vital Records Community:
  • California Department of Public Health
  • Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
  • District of Columbia Health
  • Georgia Department of Public Health
  • Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
  • National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems
  • New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
  • New York State Department of Health
  • Utah Department of Health
• Vendor community
  • Altarum
  • Axiell
  • CNSI
  • Genesis
  • Outcome Healthcare
  • Ruvos
  • VitalChek