[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45819-45820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23042]


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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., September 15, 1998; 9:00 
a.m.-5:00 p.m., September 16, 1998.
    Place: Conference Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The meeting will focus on a variety of health data 
policy and privacy issues. Department officials will update the 
Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the 
status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative 
simplification provisions of Pub. L. 104-191, the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee 
also will be briefed on the status of the International 
Classification of Diseases (ICD-10 CM) and ICD-10-PCS, as well as 
followup to the Report of the President's Commission on Quality and 
Consumer Protection in the Health Care Industry. In addition, the 
Committee plans to consider comments to submit to HHS in response to 
HIPAA Notices of Proposed Rulemaking, a draft concept paper on 
health applications in the National Information Infrastructure, and 
revisions to member guidelines for dealing with the media and 
external organizations. Subcommittee breakout sessions are planned. 
All topics are tentative and subject to change.

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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) where an agenda for the meeting will be 
posted when available. Additional information may be obtained 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 SW, Washington, DC 20201, 
telephone (202) 690-7100, or Majorie 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: August 21, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-23042 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]
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