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2010 NAPHSIS/NCHS Joint Meeting Information
The 2010 NAPHSIS/NCHS Joint Meeting will take place June 6 - 10 in St. Louis, MO. Please see the 2010 Meeting homepage in the Meetings section of our Website. Information and materials related to the upcoming meeting can be found there, and that page will be updated with additional details as we get closer to the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!
Training Call Resources Library
Materials related to the monthly training opportunities that NAPHSIS is hosting, such as PowerPoint presentations and related materials discussed during the calls, are being placed on the NAPHSIS Training Calls Resources page. This page does require a NAPHSIS login to access.
Senate Hearing on REAL ID
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs held a hearing to reevaluate the REAL ID Act in light of the recent introduction to Congress of the PASS ID Act. For information on the hearing, including a video recording, please see the Committee's Website. For a copy of the testimony which NAPHSIS submitted to the Committee, click here.
Legislative Issues
We have added a new page to our Website where members can track legislative hot topics that are making the rounds through state legislatures. By placing on this page the details of a bill currently under consideration in a member's jurisdiction, it is hoped that other members will be able provide feedback on how the proposed bill might impact their office, coordinate on a response to the proposed bill, or simply learn more about the issue. Please see the Legislative Issues page for more information.
Gestational Age Report
A NAPHSIS committee reviewed papers published on the issue of the definition of gestational age and has released their report entitled Recommendations on Measuring and Improving Quality of Gestational Age Data. Please see this page of our Website for full information.
Training Resources
We have added several pages of Training Resources to our Website, and we encourage our members to make use of them. Currently this section houses libraries of Birth Certificate and Death Certificate completion materials that the jurisdictions have provided to us, as well as a page describing Vital and Health Statistics Courses available around the country. More pages of training materials are under development and will be released in this section in the near future. Please let us know whether these are helpful to you, or what else you would like to see made available.
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