[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 29997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14478]


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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., June 16, 1998; 8:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m., June 17, 1998.
    Place: Conference Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The meeting will focus on a variety of health data 
policy and privacy issues. Department officials will brief the 
Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the 
status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative 
simplification provisions of P.L. 104-191, the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee 
will review its current organization and work plans. In addition, 
the Committee will discuss the quality of HEDIS data, possible 
comments on the report of the President's Commission on Quality and 
Consumer Protection, recommendations for HIPAA claims attachment 
standards, and possible comments on the HIPAA Notices of Proposed 
Rulemaking for the adoption of data standards. The Committee also 
will be briefed on plans for Healthy People 2010, National Health 
Objectives for the Nation, and the results of a CPRI Terminology 
Conference. Subcommittee breakout sessions are planned. All topics 
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 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) or 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 S.W., Washington, D.C. 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: May 26, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-14478 Filed 6-1-98; 8:45 am]
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