Newsletters from the National Vital Statistics System

December [PDF – 371 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2023 Data Year Close-Out; Collaborating Office of Medical Examiners and Coroners (COMEC) updates; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information (NVSS COP) and much more…

November [PDF – 268 KB]
Inside this issue – Report regarding Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates in the United States; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information (NVSS COP) and much more…

October [PDF – 392 KB]
Inside this issue – Notable publication information on Fetal Mortality in the United States; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information (NVSS COP) regarding  phase III of the jurisdictional outreach effort, and much more…

August-September [PDF – 392 KB]
Inside this issue – Notable publication information on Infant Mortality in the United States; Information on a new updated version of the Physician’s Handbook on Medical Certification of Death; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

July [PDF – 284 KB]
Inside this issue – Updated information regarding the 2022 data year close-outs for death and fetal death files; Notable publication information on homicides among infants in the United States; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; Important information regarding staffing changes within the Division of Vital Statistics and much more…

June [PDF – 273 KB]
Inside this issue – Updated information regarding the 2022 data year close-outs for death and fetal death files; Notable publication information on provisional birth data for 2022; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

May [PDF – 506 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the NAPHSIS annual meeting; Updated information regarding the 2022 data year close-outs for death and fetal death files; Notable publication information on drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

April [PDF – 293 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2022 data year close-outs for the birth, death, and fetal death files; Notable publication information on trends and characteristics in maternal hepatitis C infection rates during pregnancy; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

March [PDF – 378 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the New Medicolegal Death Investigation FHIR Implementation Collaborative; Notable publication information on Maternal and Infant Characteristics and Outcomes Among Women with Confirmed or Presumed COVID-19 During Pregnancy; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

February [PDF – 346 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2022 data year close-out involving the 2022 birth, death, and fetal death files; Notable publication information on mothers who smoked during pregnancy; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

January [PDF – 275 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding a recent change by the Division of Vital Statistics related to HIV and other ICD-10 Chapter 1 infections; Notable publication information on changes in Fetal Mortality in the United States: 2019-2020; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

December [PDF – 311 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming January 2022 VSCP Directors Webinar; Notable publication information on changes in twin births in the United States; Information on the 2022 data year close-out; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

November [PDF – 279 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming December 2022 VSCP Directors Webinar; Notable publication information on changes in home births in the United States; Information on the Center for Medical Examiners and Coroners (COMEC); Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information and much more…

October [PDF – 312 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming November 2022 VSCP Directors Webinar; Notable publication information on the cause of fetal death report; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information on a workflow testing event involving 18 jurisdictions and information highlighting the CDC Directors’ support of the NVSS COP and much more…

September [PDF – 220 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming October 2022 VSCP Directors Webinar; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information on the Health Information and Management Systems Society Interoperability Showcase that will be held April 2023; Notable publication information on Infant Mortality in the United States, 2020: Data from the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File and much more…

August [PDF – 299 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming September VSCP Directors Webinar; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; Notable publication information on Maternal and Infant Characteristics and Outcomes Among Women with Confirmed or Presumed COVID-19 During Pregnancy and much more….

July [PDF – 396 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the upcoming August 2022 VSCP Director’s Webinar; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; and much; Notable publication information on Trends and Characteristics in Gestational Diabetes and more…

June [PDF – 338 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2022 VSCP Annual Meeting; New Invoice Processing Platforms; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; and much more…

April – May [PDF – 332 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2022 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting; Notable publications release dates; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; and much more…..

March [PDF – 416 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the 2021 data year close-out dates that involve the birth, death, and fetal death files; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; and much more…

February [PDF – 298 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on the 2022 NAPHSIS annual meeting; Community of Practice (COP) information regarding the unveiling of the NVSS API in the test environment; notable publication about fetal mortality in the United States and much more….

January [PDF – 245 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on file layouts for 2022 data; Community of Practice (COP) information regarding results from the NCHS organized testing effort around the NVSS and jurisdiction client application programming interfaces and much more…

December [PDF – 247 KB]
Inside this issue – 2022 Rare Cause of Death changes; Community of Practice (COP) information introducing a brand-new segment in the Main COP meetings called Round Robin and much more….

November [PDF – 282 KB]
Inside this issue – 2021 data year close-out information regarding birth, death, and fetal death files; Community of Practice information regarding upcoming events to provide jurisdictions with an opportunity to test their health systems strengthening efforts with FHIR based interoperability and much more….

October [PDF – 273 KB]
Inside this issue – Information about the November Vital Statistics Cooperative Program Directors Webinar; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information regarding the Vital Records Death Reporting Implementation Guide connectathon that was held in September and more….

September [PDF – 308 KB]
Inside this issue – Information about invoicing for 2020 data files; Notable data brief on general fertility rates; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; and more…

August [PDF – 294 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the processing of 2020 cause of death files: Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information regarding funding that could be available to assist in modernization efforts and more…

July [PDF – 301 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding methodology changes with 2021 mortality completeness; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; Notable report on Maternal and Infant Characteristics among Women with COVID-19 during Pregnancy; and much more…

June [PDF – 363 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding the virtual Field Services and Data Quality Workshop that will be held in August; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice information; Notable report on Drug-involved Infant Deaths; and much more…

May [PDF – 400 KB]
Inside this issue – Important reminder regarding the 2021 VSCP Annual Meeting; Notable report on Changes in Births to New York City Residents Occurring Outside New York City, by Race and Hispanic Origin of the Mother; Information regarding the Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice Video; and more…

April [PDF – 373 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on the 2021 VSCP Annual Meeting; Notable reports on Maternal and Infant Characteristics among Women with COVID-19 during Pregnancy; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice updates; and more…

March [PDF – 380 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on the Vital Records and Health Statistics Accreditation Program;  Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice updates; and more…

February [PDF – 298 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on 2020 natality file closing; news regarding the revised National Death Index website; Vital Statistics Modernization Community of Practice updates; and more…

January [PDF – 360 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on data year close-outs regarding the 2020 birth, death, and fetal death files; coding questions regarding new strains of SARS-CoV-2; newly released report on provisional estimates for selected maternal and infant outcomes; and more…

December [PDF – 372 KB]
Inside this issue – Information regarding a change with the 2021 Maternal Mortality File; meeting information involving the vital statistics modernization community of practice including recent highlights from past meetings and much more…

November [PDF – 330 KB]
Inside this issue – Information about reporting injuries on the death certificate; overview of the vital statistics modernization community of practice; results from new reports about maternal and infant characteristics among women with confirmed or presumed cases of coronavirus disease and much more…

October [PDF – 370 KB]
Inside this issue – Information on the next Fetal Death Webinar; recommendations on ways of improving the quality of the cause of death; results from new publications with important data on excess deaths and general fertility rates and much more…

September [PDF – 328 KB]
Inside this issue – Guidance for requesting out of state coded cause of death files; a preview announcing the launch of the new National Death Index (NDI) Portal; a first look at our new vital statistics modernization community of practice; newly released publication on racial and ethnic disparities in fetal deaths, and much more…

August [PDF – 321 KB]
Inside this issue – Updates on recent NAPHSIS trainings and resources; reminders on 2019 mortality review processes and invoicing; new publications on infant mortality and urban–rural differences in suicide rates; how Maryland is making death data modernization work for everyone; vitals staff spotlight; and more…

July [PDF – 379 KB]
Inside this issue – NAPHSIS webinars on accreditation and data visualization; impact of COVID-19 on 2020 mortality completeness; review of expanded birth data reporting; newly released publications on teen birth rates and infant mortality; Indiana’s unexpected approach to modernizing death data, and more…

June [PDF – 402 KB]
Inside this issue – Updates on the upcoming Vital Records and Their Administration: Statistics and Data Quality Course (virtual); release of the 2019 Provisional Birth Data and the 2018 Linked Birth and Infant Death Data; maternal COVID-19 and birth reporting; reporting telehealth visits for prenatal care.

May [PDF – 313 KB]
Inside this issue – New resources from NCHS to help respond to the COVID-19 pandemic; how New York State is breaking down barriers for death data; updates on the annual VSCP meeting and upcoming NAPHSIS training; information for processing and requesting data files; contract closeout and file release dates for 2019 data.

April [PDF – 270 KB]
Inside this issue – COCA webinar for clinicians on Certifying Deaths Due to COVID-19; how modernizing data on drug overdose deaths advances understanding of suicide; transmitting mortality records to NCHS during the pandemic; how to attend the annual VSCP meeting and other webinars; contract closeout and file release dates for 2019 data.

March [PDF – 399 KB]
Inside this issue – Plans for the VSCP annual meeting to go virtual; overview of The Vital Records and their Administration course that was held in Salt Lake City, Utah; access to medical reports on the VSCP website as a way to improve the quality of cause of death data; new, must-see reports on trends and characteristics of sexually transmitted infections during pregnancy and recent trends in vaginal birth after cesarean delivery.

February [PDF – 615 KB]
Inside this issue – Seeking ideas to improve the next VSCP; special project to improve geocoding for small-area estimates of life expectancy; Iowa improves birth registration timeframes and data quality; how jurisdictions can test new systems with NCHS; upcoming NAPHSIS trainings on vital records accreditation and fetal death; 2020 task orders for VSCP data.

January [PDF – 392 KB]
Inside this issue – First release of national maternal mortality data in more than a decade; new, must-see reports on infant mortality rates due to birth defects, 80 years of fertility trends, and unnecessary pelvic exams in young women; upcoming training opportunities; new brochure for funeral directors; 2019 data year close-out dates, and more…

December [PDF – 324 KB]
Inside this issue – New Mortality Data Quality Workgroup report available; 2018 Final Birth Data release and highlights; collecting and reporting partially unknown dates; learn about our Vital Statistics Specialists; preparing for the next VSCP contract; connect to Minnesota’s Vital Records News; APHA Excellence in Science award winner; vitals staff updates; and more.

November [PDF – 284 KB]
Inside this issue – Updated key statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth; new data releases on teen birth, infant mortality, and provisional birth estimates; how Georgia’s new communication strategy yields data improvements; 2019 data year close-out dates; vitals staff updates and highlights, and more.

October [PDF – 284 KB]
Inside this issue – Assessing mortality after large-scale disasters, new data brief on twin births, California’s collaboration with medical examiners and coroners on drug death data, new activities for NAPHSIS cooperative agreement, improving cause-of-death reporting by addressing R99 codes, Global CRVS team presents at conference of African ministers, and more.

September [PDF – 284 KB]
Inside this issue – Important updates on project to modernize drug death data, list of jurisdictions awarded project funding, new web-based guidance for birth certificates, first-ever combined 2017 period/2016 cohort linked birth/infant death file, updates on 2018 mortality review process, 2019 pending records, new death certification course, and more.

August [PDF – 607 KB]
Inside this issue – Significant improvements in data quality and processing, unprecedented response to funding opportunities, notices for jurisdictions on 2018 mortality review process, new report on trends in infant mortality, NCHS/NAPHSIS data quality workshop recap, helping Zambia evaluate mortality surveillance systems, updates on vitals staff across our nation, and more.

July [PDF – 615 KB]
Inside this issue – New funding opportunity announcements, redesigning NCHS systems, faster close-out of 2018 final data, new process for errors 30+ days old, report on trends in routine pelvic examinations, helping Kenya’s community health workers report deaths, Reproductive Statistics Branch welcomes new chief, and more.