IHE Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Framework Supplement – Birth and Fetal Death Reporting-Enhanced (BFDR-E)

This document describes the Birth and Fetal Death Reporting-Enhanced (BFDR-E) Profile, which provides a way to capture and communicate the information needed to report births and fetal deaths for vital registration purposes.

BFDR-E defines a specialised Labour and Delivery Summary document, an FHIR query and 2 mechanisms to exchange birth and fetal death information in a standard format.

Main sections:

· BDFDR-E actors, transactions and content modules

· Actor options and required actor groupings

· Overview

· Use case #1: Forms data capture with messaging

· Use case #2: Forms data capture with document submission

· Use case #3: Native forms data capture

· Use case #4: EMR BFDR document submission

· Use case #5: Mother’s information data collection

· Security considerations

· Cross profile considerations

· Appendix A: BFDR-E sample forms

· Transaction: BFDRQuery [QRPH-46]

· Content modules and data mappings

· National extensions