Completing Death Certificates from an EMR: Analysis of a Novel Public-Private Partnership.

With the objective of increasing electronic death registration, Intermountain Healthcare and the Utah Office of Vital Records and Statistics have developed a system enabling death certification from within Intermountain's electronic medical record (EMR), consisting of an EMR module and an HL7 interface. Comparison of post-intervention death certification at Intermountain Healthcare against a baseline study found a slight increase in the percentage of deaths certified electronically (73% pre vs. 77% post).

Population-based trends and correlates of maternal overweight and obesity, Utah 1991-2001.

Objective: This study aims to identify recent population-based trends in maternal overweight and obesity and adverse outcomes.

Study Design: Statewide retrospective cohort study of birth certificate data for live singleton births to women in Utah between 1991 and 2001.

Results: Prepregnancy overweight and obesity increased from 25.