Birth And Fetal Death (BFDR) FHIR Implementation Guide
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This page is part of the Vital Records Birth and Fetal Death Reporting (v2.0.0: STU2) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, 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

STU2 Specification Developers

Development Team

  • Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange.
  • MITRE is 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 BFDR and VRCL implementation guides 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 these guides were developed using Trifolia-on-FHIR and professional guidance provided by Lantana Consulting Group.
  • The published content of the STU2 versions of these guides 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/fhir-bfdr/blob/master/tools/README.md
  • The BFDR FHIR IG is a work product of the HL7 Public Health Workgroup. The HL7 Project Insight reference number for this project is 1643.

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