Electronic Death Registry System (EDRS) and the Physician

The electronic filing of birth and death certificates is part of WEVRRS, and the Electronic Death Registry System (EDRS) will go live in late August, for pilot users. The system is expected to gradually be rolled out statewide by 2008.

EDRS promotes uniformity in cause-of-death documentation, which is supported by the American Medical Association. This is expected to improve the timeliness and quality of cause-of-death reporting, as well as provide more accurate cause-of-death data to disease surveillance systems.

• What Hospitals and Physicians Should Know About Electronic Death Registration (PDF)

• Electronic filing of death certificates
• User–friendly death data entry screens
• Real–time editing
• Higher quality data and reduced errors
• 24/7 accessibility from any computer with Internet access
  Highly secure web site
• Facilities online collaboration between multiple death registration users
• On–line help and instructions built into system
• Initial/pilot users go live – August 2006
• Gradual rollout statewide – 2007
• Full state–wide implementation – 2008