Zvetco secures electronic death certificate issuance

Published 11 May 2010

More and more things are done on line — including issuing death certificates; there is thus a need to make sure that those who issue death certificates electronically are authorized to do so and that are who they say they are

Zvetco Biometrics has announced they have been chosen by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for a project that will enable the agency biometrically to authenticate users issuing electronic death certificates.

For its part, Zvetco has deployed fingerprint readers from its Verifi line of fingerprint readers to the department’s offices.

The new fingerprint readers will be used by personnel to login to the department’s intranet portal where the process of creating the electronic death certificates occurs. The initial stage of the program includes the providing of software that ties into Zvetco’s readers to the many mortuaries, hospital, extended care facilities, and government agencies involved in the issuance of death certificates that will allow a user to be enrolled in the system as well as record, store and print death certificates.