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1 EDEN Electronic Death Entry Network
Jeff Duncan Office of Vital Records and Statistics Utah Department of Health Phone: October 18, 2007

2 Death Certificate Permanent Legal Record prima facie evidence of death
Required for: death benefits, insurance, internment Statistical data collection Public health program management Medical and public health research Permanent Legal Record Prima facie—sufficient to establish the fact. Required for insurance benefits, pension claims, real estate and title transfer Statistical data collection, data submitted to: Federal agencies such as NCHS, SSA, CPSC State agencies, Health department programs, Workforce Services, Division of Aging, Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (for population projection) Research Institutions such as Huntsman Cancer, Utah Cancer Registry, IICRC On request to universities, college students, private citizens

3 Legal Requirements DC must be filed with local registrar within 5 days of death By statute, funeral director is responsible for death registration Certifying physician or ME completes medical section within 72 hours from time of death -DC filed within 5 days of death -required before internment or transport of body out of state -In Utah there are 12 local registrars -Funeral director that first takes custody of body is required to complete certificate -Death certificates ordered by judges are called “Delayed death certificates”. We typically have 1-2 of these a year in Utah.

4 Paper Death Certificate Flow
Electronic Death Registration—Birth records are entirely electronic, keyed at hospital and ed to state. Deaths are more difficult due to the number of people involved. Some states are now experimenting with electronic deaths, Utah will be a few years yet.

5 What is electronic death registration?
Paperless death certificates SSN Verification Electronic authentication Burial permit printing at funeral home Remote ordering of certified copies Electronic corrections and amendments -Internet technology—ROSE is the testbed -Electronic authentication--

6 EDEN Development SSA Funding—October 2004 Advisory committee formed
State and local vital records personnel Funeral directors Physicians Chief Medical Examiner Development by OVRS programmers and Gold Systems, Inc. Production: August 1, 2006

7 Benefits of Eden Improved timeliness of data Higher quality data
National Security Greater efficiency Verified Social Security numbers -Fact of death within 24 hours -Completed death certificate within 4 days, within 24 hrs of registration -OVS– online verification system

8 EDEN Technical Specs Secure Internet application
SSN verification with Social Security Database—MySQL on DOH Linux server PHP and VBScript 24/7 operation

9 Electronic Death Certificate Flowchart
Funeral Director Physician OME EDEN Database MySQL OVRS LHD Death Certificates Federal and state Agencies Reports Data Requests

10 Death data goes to…. Federal Agencies State Agencies Others
NCHS, SSA, CPSC State Agencies DOH programs, DWS, GOPB, Elections Office Others Utah Cancer, UPDB, Universities, Researchers

11 Death data timeliness


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