[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34296-34297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16678]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


HHS Committee on Health Data Standards: Meeting

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Health and Human

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Services will hold a public meeting of its Committee on Health Data 
Standards and HHS Health Data Standards Implementation Teams.

    Time and Date: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., July 9, 1997.
    Place: Natcher Center Auditorium, Natcher Building and 
Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 
Maryland.
    The Natcher Center is located on the NIH campus on Center Drive 
off Wisconsin Avenue. The closest Metro stop is Medical Center (on 
the Red Line). Attendees are urged to use Metro because visitor 
parking at NIH is extremely limited. A map of the NIH campus is 
available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.nih.gov/welcome/
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    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of the meeting is for representatives of 
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to meet with 
interested and affected parties and members of the general public to 
describe the current status of activities relating to the adoption 
of health data standards pursuant to the administrative simplication 
provisions of Public Law 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability 
and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HHS representatives will 
describe the HIPAA requirements for health data standards and will 
provide an overview of HHS efforts in implementing the law. The role 
of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics also will 
be described. Representatives of each of the six HHS Implementation 
Teams will then offer presentations on their progress to date as 
well as their preliminary findings relating to standards, and will 
respond to questions from the public.

Tentative Agenda

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. HIPAA Administrative Simplification Provisions: Background and 
Requirements
III. Role of the NCVHS
IV. Reports from the HHS Implementation Teams (Each report will be 
followed by questions from attendees.)
     Infrastructure and Crosscutting Issues
     Claims and Encounter Standards
     Unique Health Identifiers
     Enrollment and Eligibility Standards
     Coding and Classification Standards
     Security Standards
V. Conclusions
    The order of agenda items is subject to change. For the final 
agenda, please visit the HHS Data Council's Home Page at: http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/datacncl/
 Contact Person for More Information: Additional information may 
be obtained from Bill Braithwaite, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D, Humphrey Building, 
200 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, telephone 
(202) 260-0546, or Robert Moore, Health Care Financing 
Administration, DHHS, 7500 Security Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland 
21244, telephone (410) 786-0948.

    Dated: June 19, 1997.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, OPS, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 97-16678 Filed 6-24-97; 8:45 am]
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