National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
National Center for Health Statistics
Coordinating Center for Health Information and Service

Designated Federal Officer – Marjorie Greenberg

It shall be the function of the Committee to assist and advise the Secretary through the Department of Health and Human Services Data Council, on health data, statistics, privacy, national health information policy, and the Department's strategy to best address those issues. Specifically, the Committee shall advise the Department in the following matters: (A) Monitor the nation's health data needs and current approaches to meeting those needs; identify emerging health data issues, including methodologies and technologies of information systems, databases, and networking that could improve the ability to meet those needs. (B) Identify strategies and opportunities to achieve long-term consensus on common health data standards that will promote (I) the availability of valid, credible, and timely health information, and (ii) multiple uses of data collected once; recommend actions the federal government can take to promote such a consensus. (C) Make recommendations regarding health terminology, definitions, classifications, and guidelines. (D) Study and identify privacy, security, and access measures to protect individually identifiable health information in an environment of electronic networking and multiple uses of data.

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