Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS) Overview

An Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS) allows participants to electronically register various types of death certificates, providing a paperless, timely, secure, and accurate process. Users can create death certificates, complete them, assign cases, request certification, and more, resulting in minimized costs and improved services. The system offers readily available death statistics post-implementation.

• Electronic Death Registration
• EDRS Overview
• Death Certificate
• Paperless Registration
• Timely Process

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1. PHYSICIANS USER TRAINING SESSION THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH S ELECTRONIC DEATH REGISTRATION SYSTEM (EDRS)

2. Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS)? WHAT IS AN EDRS? An EDRS allows all participants to electronically register Death Certificates for Attended Deaths Primary Care Provider (Green Border Death Certificate) Unattended Deaths Medical Examiner (Red Border Death Certificate) Spontaneous Fetal Deaths Primary Care Provider (Yellow Border Death Certificate) Induced Terminations of Pregnancies Primary Care Provider (Brown Border Death Certificate) WHY USE AN EDRS? Paperless registration of Death Certificates - Anytime, Anywhere, Home, Office, Vacation More timely, complete, secure & accurate Death Certificates resulting in minimized business costs and improved services to the families of the decedents Readily available Death Statistics 2

3. Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS)? WHAT CAN YOU USE THE EDRS FOR ? DECEDENT AFFAIRS Creating a Death Certificate Completing a death certificate created by a funeral home Electronically assigning case to a physician or a pool of physicians Electronically requesting demographics certification (if funeral home is an EDRS user) Drop certificate to paper (if funeral home is not an EDRS user) PHYSICIAN S STAFF Completing a death certificate created by a funeral home PHYSICIAN S Completing a death certificate created by a funeral home Medical Certification (digital signatures) 3

4. After Implementation of the EDRS 4