Meetings: Vital and Health Statistics National Committee,

[Federal Register: September 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 170)]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee meeting.

Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).

Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., September 27, 1999; 10:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m., September 28, 1999.

Place: Conference Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The meeting will focus on a variety of health data policy and privacy issues. Department officials will update the Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative simplification provisions of Pub. L. 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee also will discuss its forthcoming report on Medicaid managed care data issues, as well as a report to the Secretary concerning standards for computer-based patient records, and plans for a November, 1999 workshop at the National Academy of Sciences on Health Statistics for the 21st Century. The Committee also will receive briefings on quality of care data issues and the revision of the U.S. Standard Certificates for Live Birth and Death for 2002. In addition, Subcommittee breakout sessions and reports to the full Committee are planned.

All topics are tentative and subject to change. Prior to the meeting, please check the NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda will be posted when available.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive information as well as summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http:// aspe.os.dhhs.gov.ncvhs) where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available. Additional information may be obtained by calling James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201, telephone (202) 690-7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050.

Note: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey Building by non-government employees. Thus, individuals without a government identification card may need to have the guard call for an escort to the meeting room.

Dated: August 26, 1999. James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy.

[FR Doc. 99-22821Filed9-1-99; 8:45 am]

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