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Illinois Birth Records Go High Tech
New parents might find their baby's birth records in their mailboxes sooner.

The Illinois Department of Public Health is now using an Electronic Birth Registration System, which allows the state's 121 birthing hospitals to transmit birth records electronically instead of sending them through the mail.

Department of Public Health deputy state registrar George Rudis says the Internet will help his agency check birth records faster. He says follow-up is easier when it's fresher in everyone's mind.

"You've got incomplete information, you'd have to match the file up with the paper record. You may have to, in some cases, call the county registrar that filed the record to get clarification on some of the information," Rudis said.

Rudis says, by law, hospitals have seven days to send a birth record to the local registrar, who has until the 10th of the following month to provide that information to the state public health department. He says the new system helps parents receive birth records a little faster and helps his agency track birth statistics, which help IDPH and other agencies plan services.

The Illinois Department of Public Health enacted a similar system for death records last year.
03 29 10 by Newsroom
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