[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 128 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17785]



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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, 
Subcommittee on Populations.
    Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., July 14, 1998; 9:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m., July 15, 1998.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations will hold a two-day 
public meeting to assess the health data needs in the Pacific 
insular areas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The Subcommittee 
will examine the relations between these areas and the Federal 
government with regard to the current status of health data 
collection, analysis, and utilization, including the adequacy of 
available health data and statistics, as well as health information 
systems for assessing population health needs and health service 
requirements, examining the results of Federal public health 
spending, and documenting Healthy People objectives. The 
Subcommittee intends to examine impediments to improving health data 
collection and use in Pacific insular areas, Puerto Rico, and the 
Virgin Islands; learn about any special considerations involving 
privacy and confidentiality; identify the most critical areas where 
health data gathering capabilities are undeveloped but essential; 
and develop recommendations for improving health information 
systems. Participants are expected to include representatives from 
the Pacific insular areas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as 
well as representatives from HHS agencies which administer programs 
in these areas, and other invited federal officials.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive information about 
the Committee as well as a roster of Committee members may be 
obtained from 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, MD 20782, telephone 301/
436-7050. Additional information about the full Committee is 
available on the NCVHS website, where the tentative agenda for the 
Subcommittee meeting will also be posted when available: http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs

    Dated: June 26, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-17785 Filed 7-2-98; 8:45 am]
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