Use of hospital data for epidemiologic and medical-care research: a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

How hospital data may be used for epidemiologic and medical-care research is discussed with examples of past applications.Bibliography: p. 9

Use of vital and health records in epidemiologic research: report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

An analysis of the changing needs for data in epidemiologic research in relation to the present vital and health statistics system with recommendations for use of existing vital and health records and for developing new data for epidemiologic studies.Bibliography: p. 10-11

Personal health records and personal health record systems: a report recommendation from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

President Bush and Secretary Leavitt have put forward a vision that, in the Secretary\ue2\u20ac\u2122s words, \ue2\u20ac\u153would create a personal health record that patients, doctors and other health care providers could securely access through the Internet no matter where a patient is seeking medical care.\ue2\u20ac? The National Health Information Infrastructure Workgroup of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) held six hearings on personal health records (PHRs) and PHR systems in 2002-2005. On the basis of those hearings, the Workgroup developed a letter report with twenty recommendations that it sent to the Secretary in September 2005. Citing the role PHR systems could play in improving health and healthcare and furthering the broad health information technology agenda, the letter report urges the Secretary to exercise leadership and give priority to developing PHRs and PHR systems, consistent with the Committee\ue2\u20ac\u2122s recommendations. The present report is a slightly expanded version of the letter report sent to the Secretary. Although substantively unchanged, it adds clarifying information for a broader audience.Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Background -- Personal Health records are evolving in concept and practice (Recommendations 1-2) -- Personal health record systems\ue2\u20ac\u2122 value depends on users, sponsors, and functionality -- Privacy (Recommendations 3-7) -- Security requirements (Recommendations 8-9) -- Interoperability (Recommendations 10-14) -- Federal Roles in PHR systems, internal and external (Recommendations 15-16) -- Advancing research and evaluation on PHR systems (Recommendations 17-20) -- Next steps for NCVHS"Developed by the Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics"--P. 2.Also available via the World Wide Web.Includes bibliographical references

National vital statistics needs: a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

An analysis of the role of the national vital statistics agency, with recommendations concerning the procurement and production of regular annual data, the need for special studies, provision of technical services to the States, and other policy questions.This report was originally published as Vital Statistics—Special Reports, Vol. 45, No. 11 (July 1957). Because its recommendations for meeting needs for national vital statistics are still of interest, the report is now being reprinted without change in the National Center for Health Statistics Vital and Health Statistics series

Statistics needed for determining the effects of the environment on health: report of the technical consultant panel to the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

Recommendations concerning which statistical data on health effects of the environment should be collected, the ways in which recommended data should be collected, and any changes that should be made in the existing measurements of environmental factors in order to relate the environmental factors to health effects more efficiently.Includes bibliographical references

Migration, vital, and health statistics: a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

An assessment of the needs for migration statistics; the procedures whereby statistics might be secured; the interrelations of vital processes and health with the movements of people; and the steps required to secure data and advance research

Needs for national studies of population dynamics: a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

An assessment of the types of studies needed in the field of population dynamics, the specific types of data needed to yield such studies, and the steps required to meet those needs most effectively.Includes bibliographical references

Uniform hospital abstract: minimum basic data set : a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

Includes bibliographical references

Statistical aspects of physician payment systems: a report of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

"Findings and conclusions concerning current and anticipated needs of users of data from the patient-physician encounter in the ambulatory care setting are summarized in this report. The report emphasizes the increasing plurality of data uses and of sites of care in the ambulatory arena and underscores the value of standard definitions to facilitate comparison of different data bases across systems and to achieve as much uniformity as possible at the national level."Prepared by the Subcommittee on Statistical Aspects of Physician Payment Systems.Also available via the World Wide Web

Ambulatory medical care records: uniform minimum basic data set : a report of the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

Report prepared by consultants selected by the U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.Includes bibliographical references