Update on Death Certificate filing
Update: Electronic Death Certificate filing reaches over 2,600 users
Next goal: Have death events filed in 10 days
Kansas physicians are successfully making the transition to filing death certificates electronically, since the requirements changed January 1st of this year. The Office of Vital Statistics reports an impressive increase from less than 500 physicians using the VRVweb Electronic Death Record System in July of 2016 (the law effective date of HB 2518) to over 2,600 users as of March 2017.