The Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) Profile provides a means to capture and communicate information needed for to report a death.

The Vital Records Death Reporting (VRDR) is a content profile that defines the content of Vital Records Death Reporting information that is transmitted by clinical systems to public health systems for vital registration purposes. This profile uses several different mechanisms for capturing and communicating that information:
+ Defined content in CDA documents,
+ Defined content in HL7 V2.5.1 messaging,

Electronic data capture and form submission using the ITI Retrieve Form for Data Capture profile with transformation capabilities provided by two new actors:
1. Form Receiver/CDA Exporter which transforms the form data to a VRDR CDA Document defined in this profile in Volume 3
2. Form Receiver/Message Exporter which transforms the form data to a VRDRFeed (QRPH-38) HL7 message defined in this profile in Volume 2