Jurisdictions Seek to Modernize Vital Records Systems

This blog analyzes the progress and challenges for states modernizing vital records systems (e.g., birth, death, and marriage certificates). According to the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), funding, staffing, redundancies from medical examiners and coroners’ offices, and even outdated processes such as processing records that rely on paper, manually entering data into multiple different electronic systems, or even the “labor-intensive processes limit how quickly data can move between systems and create opportunities for error.”