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EVVE System Overview
The EVVE system supports remote message-based verifications and certifications of birth and death records with each of the jurisdictions. The message-based approach, along with a billing component, provides the following advantages over online, dial-up verifications accessing jurisdiction vital records databases directly: (1) it minimizes opportunities for any network security breach and reduces the threat of an opportunity for users outside of the jurisdiction’s vital records office to 'browse' records in the jurisdiction’s vital records database; (2) federal and state agency authorized requesters need to learn a simple modification to their own entry screen in order to request a verification or certification from any jurisdiction; and (3) jurisdictions will not lose revenue essential to running the vital records operation. All transaction requests will be logged so that any unusual activities can be traced back to the originating requesting agency.
Federal and State agencies communicate with the EVVE system via an XML message called a Vital Event Transaction (VET). The federal and/or state agency generates a request to be sent to the EVVE hub using the VET format. The EVVE hub routes the request to the jurisdiction where the event took place. In each jurisdiction participating in the EVVE system, software is installed that receives the routed message, interprets the information contained within it; runs the request against whatever automated search system the jurisdiction maintains, constructs a response to the message, and returns the response to the EVVE hub which forwards the response to the federal or state agency in the VET format. At the same time, the transaction is logged and the agency is billed for the transaction.
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