What Activities has the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Been Pursuing?
The NCVHS has a prominent role in monitoring the implementation of HIPAA s administrative simplification standards. One aspect of this work is that the Committee has continued to serve as the Department’s primary liaison with the private sector to obtain the views, concerns, input, and advice of interested parties on health data and privacy standards. During the reporting period, the focus of NCVHS public hearings and committee deliberations about HIPAA administrative simplification shifted from regulatory matters to implementation issues and lessons learned. Designated Standards Monitoring Organizations The DSMOs provided an annual update of their activities to the NCVHS Standards and Security Subcommittee in February 2006. The update described a myriad of changes requested by the industry to the administrative simplification standards and relayed industry interests in streamlining the standards update process. Reported on Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the National Health
