Health Department Forms Folder 0065, 1999-2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

June/July 2000

In this issue Snags delay program to &M8 &aye ERRS ................I rresidentf m se ................I No ............ computerize death certificates ..............I by Katherine E. Finkelstein "CtiySrWe .............6 MFDA sukoiu sximpl~pr rn cease ....9 A New York Times reporter tries to find Adwrtirns indgt ................la out why, after six years, the City is still without electronic death registration Indoduetion The MFDA Board of Dkectors and its Vital Records Co jpn arc coNmalty inu- Upcoming events rratod with the Cityt various delays in getting sit electronic death registration sptem up running. Over two maadbs ago MFDA representatives Chommerce Director, the Mayon Office mar with the Cltyt E- August 1317, 2Dan of 0penttion stair, a new EDRS project ager and the Deputy Comnrisssona man- NYSFDA Annual Coavendnn ofHealth. At the time, the MFDA learned the Department planned to revamp the EDItS sofwrc. Ileahh Sustogi Springs Disappoigdag nevi since the MFDA thought the so(lwam development was finished, Additiaady, City etafrers twuld not commit to a seat up date for an EDRS beta September 14, 21100 tctt. What they did commit to was another meeting in mid-June to discuss minimum MFDA Doard Mceiing tests to be conducted in August The Director of E-Commerce concluded the meeting by Ctawnc Plarnrtapuardia asserting that EDRS coos one of the City% top 10 electronic projects. iooPM Early June the MFDA raped the Director of E-Commerce on severs! occasions in an September in. 21, 21100 effort to set up the second mectting_ The calls went unaswered and the meeting NJSFDA Annual Cptwcntion never held. Then in late Lune New York Timer rcporn7 was MFDA to discuss EDRS. (DNS Finkebtcinl article, Katherine Finkelstein ctlled the Tnrmpl Taj Maw which ran in the July 1 edition of the M ansic City, NJ. Tracer, begins on page'?). Contras•y to what some Health Department staff may think, the MFDA did the articic. However, the article allude to "city not initiate Please note that she Opinions sources" Could it be that someone with- in the City bureaucracy is equally as frustrated with the delays? erpressed in the articles Finally: How is it that Now Jersey is beta ranting contained herein are not even though the stateb health department began an elcetmnie death registration system, necessarily those of the its EDRS project Mote than four yvn eikr the City ? Mrn4 and are reprinted (or in(ormarionaf purposes only. Continued on page 7,

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