Meetings: Vital and Health Statistics National Committee,

[Federal Register: October 19, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 201)]

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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), Subcommittee on Populations.

Time and Date: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., October 28, 1999; 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., October 29, 1999.

Place: Room 405A, Hubert H. Humphrey building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: At this meeting, the Subcommittee on Populations will assess the

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feasibility of recording, evaluating, and analyzing measures of functional status on health records, such as records of enrollment in health plans, records of medical encounters, and standardized attachments to such records.

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

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained from Carolyn Rimes, Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Special Populations, Office of Research and Demonstrations, Health Care Financing Administration, MS-C4-13-01, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244- 1850, telephone (410) 786-6620; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436- 7050. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.

Dated: October 12, 1999. James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 99-27180Filed10-18-99; 8:45 am]

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