Meetings: Vital and Health Statistics National Committee,

[Federal Register: September 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 175)]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meetings

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), Subcommittee on Standards and Security Work Group on Computer-based Patient Records.

Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., September 16, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., September 17, 1999.

Place: Conference Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: Under the Administrative Simplification provisions of P.L. 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) is required to study the issues related to the adoption of uniform data standards for patient medical record information and the electronic interchange of such information, and report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services not later then August 2000 on recommendations and legislative proposals for such standards and electronic interchange. The NCVHS is the Department's federal advisory committee on health data, privacy and health information policy.

The NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards and Security, Working Group on Computer-based Patient Records, will meet on September 16-17, 1999 in Washington, D.C. At the meeting, the Working Group will hear from several panels of experts on health data quality, consider related issues concerning standards for computer-based patient records, and discuss their forthcoming letter to the Secretary relating to recommendations. The tentative agenda for the meeting, as well as a description of the panels of speakers, will be posted on the NCVHS website: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, when available.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information about the meeting may be obtained from Michael Fitzmaurice (AHCPR, 301-594-3938) or Bob Mayes (HCFA, 410-786-6872), lead staff for the Computer-based Patient Record Working Group. Information about the NCVHS is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website, or from Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-7050.

Dated: September 2, 1999. James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of Program Systems, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and HHS Executive Staff Director NCVHS.

[FR Doc. 99-23490Filed9-9-99; 8:45 am]

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