[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 29738]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14291]


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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 
meetings.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Health Data Needs, Standards, and Security.
    Times and Dates: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., June 15, 1997.
    Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: Under the Administrative Simplification provisions of 
Pub. L. 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 
Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services is 
required to adopt standards for specified transactions to enable 
health information to be exchanged electronically. The law requires 
that, within 24 months of adoption, all health plans, health care 
clearinghouses, and health care providers who choose to conduct 
these transactions electronically must comply with these standards. 
The law also requires the Secretary to adopt a number of supporting 
standards including standards for code sets and classifications 
systems. The Secretary is required to rely upon the recommendations 
of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) in 
complying with these provisions. The NCVHS is the Department's 
federal advisory committee on health data, privacy and health 
information policy.
    On June 15, 1998, the NCVHS Subcommittee on Health Data Needs, 
Standards, and Security will hold a meeting to review the progress 
of its work and plan future activities. The Subcommittee will 
discuss plans for addressing 1) the HIPAA requirements relating to 
electronic data interchange standards for claims attachments and 2) 
NCVHS recommendations for standards for clinical data and its 
electronic interchange. The Subcommittee also will consider possible 
comments on the published Notices of Proposed Rulemaking relating to 
the adoption of EDI standards for health care administrative 
transactions. In addition, the Subcommittee will discuss approaches 
to the development of a framework for procedure classification 
systems, as well as plans for public hearings on unique individual 
identifiers for use in the health system. All topics and times are 
tentative and subject to change. Please check the NCVHS website, 
where a detailed agenda will be posted prior to the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
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). You may also call 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 into the Hubert H. Humphrey 
Building by non-government employees. Thus, individuals without 
government identification cards may need to have the guard call for 
an escort to the meeting room.

    Dated: May 26, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 98-14291 Filed 5-29-98; 8:56 am]
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