Batesville has achieved the first interoperational integration of its Halcyon deathcare management software with Georgia’s Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS). The integration eliminates the need for duplicative manual-entry data. This not only improves processing speed but also helps funeral homes maintain more accurate death records and supports continued electronic death submissions in other states.

Said Sara Gard, general manager of Halcyon by Batesville: “This breakthrough integration with Georgia improves business efficiencies and processes, as Georgia funeral home directors can now enter a decedent’s death certificate and information once and it will seamlessly integrate from Halcyon directly to the Georgia Vital Events Registration System. This saves the funeral home customer an average of 15 to 30 minutes per case.”

Batesville is a proud participant in a subgroup of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System Modernization Community of Practice. The purpose of this subgroup is to research and review the modernization of electronic death-record submission, including improvements to funeral home death-record data collection and management. Together, the team developed, tested and implemented a system where funeral home management systems could exchange data electronically with a state’s death-registry system to improve the timeliness and quality of death data, create efficiencies for funeral directors, and accelerate adoption of vital records technology. HalcyonDCMS.com