National Committee on Vital Health and Statistics (NCVHS) Charter Renewal

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has announced the formal renewal of the charter of the National Committee on Vital Health and Statistics (NCVHS). This renewal ensures the committee continues its statutory advisory role to the HHS Secretary on health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy. NCVHS is a long-standing federal advisory committee established under the Public Health Service Act. It provides recommendations on topics including health data standards, electronic health information exchange, population health statistics, and the privacy of individually identifiable health information under HIPAA. The charter renewal is a routine administrative action required periodically under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to maintain the committee's legal standing and operational authority. Without renewal, the committee would lapse and lose its ability to formally advise HHS. This notice signals that NCVHS will continue its work advising on health IT policy, national vital statistics systems, and health data infrastructure — areas of growing relevance given ongoing federal investment in interoperability and electronic health records.

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