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Pennsylvania Department of Health

Pennsylvania Department of Health

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Birth Record Parentage-Pre-Birth Court Orders : Yes

Birth Record Parentage-Parentage Labels : Parent, Mother, or Father

Birth Record Parentage-Two or More Parent Certificates : No

Birth Record Parentage-Parentage Legal Citation : No

Data Use-Require Agreement for Partners Within Health Department : Yes

Data Use-Require Agreement for External Partners : Yes

Data Use-Allowed to Charge for Sharing Data : Yes

Data Use-How Do You Share : SFTP/FTP, STEVE, Secure Network Folder

Data Use-Statistical Suppression Rules Birth Other : COMMENT: We are interpreting that this question is related to the public health statistics published for the general public.

Data Use-Statistical Suppression Rules Death Denominator : Record level data is suppressed when it becomes so small that the population could become identifiable.

EBRS-Vendor : GCOM

EBRS-System Name : eVitals

EBRS-Year Updated : 2024

EBRS-Geocoding : No

EBRS-Geocoding Software/Vendor (if applicable) : Precisely

EBRS-API Capability : No

EBRS-FHIR API Capability : No

EDRS-Vendor : VitalChek

Fees-Birth Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Additional Birth Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Amended Birth Records : $0.00

Fees-Death Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Additional Death Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Amended Death Records : No Change

Fees-Divorce Certificates : N/A

Fees-Fetal Death Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Additional Fetal Death Certificates : $20.00

Fees-Amending Demographic Items : $0.00

Fees-Amending Medical Items : $0.00

General Questions-Health Dept HIPAA : No

General Questions-Vital Records HIPAA : Yes

General Questions-Births Vital Events Volume : 138725

General Questions-Deaths Vital Events Volume : 136079

General Questions-Fetal Deaths Vital Events Volume : 1207

General Questions-ITOP Vital Events Volume : 30326

General Questions-Marriage Vital Events Volume : 71024

General Questions-Divorce Vital Events Volume : 33412

General Questions-Medical Examiners Amount : 3

General Questions-Coroners Amount : 64

General Questions-Local Registrar Count : 165

General Questions-Local Registrar Abilities : Register vital events, Issue certified copies of vital events, For death events only. They also register fetal deaths but do not issue fetal death certificates.

Operations Questions-Birth Records Public Access : Closed

Operations Questions-Birth records Public Access Details : 105 years after the date of birth

Operations Questions-Death Records Public Access : Closed

Operations Questions-Death Records Public Access Details : 50 years after the date of death

Operations Questions-Adoption Records Access : Closed

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Short Form : Standard—Date issued, date filed, state file number, date of birth, time of birth, name, sex, county of birth, all parent's names

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Long Form : Expanded—All fields on standard plus city and state (or country) of birth, parent's ages, parent's place of birth (state, territory or country)

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Other Form : Comprehensive—All fields on expanded plus hospital name, parent's occupation (if recorded), parent's residence, certifier's or attendant's name, and registrar's name

Operations Questions-Cert Death Long Form : Comprehensive—All fields listed

Sex Designation-Sex on birth record : Male, Female, Unknown

Sex Designation-Gender Marker on BC : No

Sex Designation-Sex on death record : Male, Female, Unknown

Sex Designation-Death Cert Gender Marker : No

Sex Designation-Sex Change Amendment Birth : Through a court order or through an affidavit accompanied by a letter from a treating physician.

Sex Designation-Sex Change Amendment Death : Through a court order or through an affidavit submitted by the informant or a correction request submitted by a funeral director or medical certifier.

Sex Designation-Sex Change Requirements : Yes, no surgery, but “appropriate” medical intervention required, For children under 18 years of age, a signed affidavit by all parents registered on the birth record.

Sex Designation-Sex Change Legislation : No

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