The HL7 V2.6 Vital Records Death Reporting specification covers the transmission of death related information consistent with the requirements of the 2003 Revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death.
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HL7 V2.6
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The HL7 V2.6 Vital Records Death Reporting specification covers the provision of death reporting information from a clinical setting to the applicable jurisdictional vital records reporting agency within the United States, utilizing the HL7 V2.6 standard. It also addresses the requirements for reporting death information from the jurisdictional vital records offices to the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and provides a way for NCHS to return coded cause of death, and coded race and ethnicity information back to the jurisdictional vital records offices. This is a US realm specification.