Product VR DAM

Product Brief - HL7 V3 DAM - Vital Records

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Product Name

HL7 V3DAM VITALRECORDS, R1:
HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Vital Records, Release 1

Standard Category

• Health Information Exchange Standards

Type

Informative Ballot, May 2010

Releases

HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Vital Records, Release 1 – US

Summary

The Vital Records Domain Analysis Model (VR DAM) describes the work flow processes, data exchanges and vital registration stakeholders for transmitting birth, death and fetal death data for the U.S. vital records systems.

Description

The VR DAM will identify the stakeholders and work flow for birth and death registration to guide the design and implementation efforts for transmitting data and records between U.S. vital records systems and other public and private information systems to meet current and emerging needs. The VR DAM will also provide a representation of the data elements that need to be supported for birth and death registration. This is foundational work that may be expanded in the future to include international considerations.

The VR DAM describes how birth, death and fetal death records are processed in the United States (U.S.) and identifies the vital records stakeholders who are involved in the data exchange. The goal of the VR DAM is to serve as a reference to guide future design and implementation efforts for standardizing the electronic data exchanges between U.S. vital records systems and other healthcare information technology systems that include vital records data to meet current and emerging needs.

Business Case (Intended Use, Customers)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) is providing support for the development of vital records standards that may serve as the foundation for standardizing electronic transmission of birth, death and fetal death events. The CDC/NCHS/Division of Vital Statistics, the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and several state representatives has collaborated to develop Vital Records Domain Analysis Models (VR DAM).

Vital Records Departments Stakeholders:

• National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems
• U.S. Jurisdictions and Local Departments of Health

Clinicians, Medical Examiners, Certifiers and Coroners Stakeholders:

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Nurse Midwives
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American Hospital Association
• American Medical Association
• College of American Pathologists
• National Association of Medical Examiners

Government Organizations:

• AHRQ
• CDC/NCHS
• Census Bureau
• CMS
• Department of State
• HRSA
• SSA
• VA

Standards Development Organizations:

• Health Level Seven
• HITSP

Funeral Directors Stakeholders:

• National Funeral Directors Association
• State Funeral Directors Associations

Healthcare Informaticists: American Health Information Management Association

Vendors of Vital Records Systems
Vendors of EHR-Systems

Researchers, VR Data Users:

• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
• March of Dimes
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Guttmacher Institute
• State Universities

Other Participants: National Association of Health Data Organizations

Benefits

Ultimately, the VR DAM will guide future design and implementation efforts to standardize electronic data exchange among electronic health record systems, vital records systems and potentially other public information systems to meet current and emerging needs. We also plan to map the VR DAM to the developing Electronic Health Records Systems (EHR-S) Vital Records Functional Profile. The Vital Records Functional Profile is currently under development through the support of the HL7 EHR Work Group. The profile will specify the functional requirements needed for vital registration data exchange among providers, states, Federal agencies and other stakeholders. It will also facilitate EHR systems capturing selected vitals-related data at the point of contact or point of care of a patient in a standardized electronic format.

Implementations/ Case Studies (Actual Users)

• CDC/NCHS, NAPHSIS and several state representatives have collaboratively contributed to the development of the VR DAM.

Resources

Work Groups

• Public Health and Emergency Response

Education

• See more at http://hl7new.amg-hq.net/implement/training.cfm

Relationship to/ Dependencies on, other standards

• EHR-S FM,
• EHR Vital Records FP

Links to current projects in development

• Project Insight ID # 311, U.S. Vital Records Domain Analysis Model
• Project Insight ID # 223, EHR Vital Records Functional Profile