[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 23836]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11123]


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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), 
Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality.
    Time and Date: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., May 19, 1999; 9:00 a.m.-5:00 
p.m., May 20, 1990.
    Place: Room 405A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting, the Subcommittee will hear panel 
presentations on selected confidentiality issues. On the first day, 
a panel discussion is planned on the flow of health information 
between employers and insurers and related issues of data access and 
confidentiality. A second panel of privacy advocates will discuss 
their views on these topics. On the second day, the Subcommittee 
will hear a panel discussion of pharmacy benefit management firms 
and their information practices.
    Notice: In the interest of security, the Department has 
instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. 
Humphrey building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without 
a government identification card will need to have the guard call 
for an escort to the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Gail Horlick, M.S.W., J.D., 
Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Privacy and 
Confidentiality, Office of Research and Demonstrations, Health Care 
Financing Administration, MS-C4-13-01, 7500 Security Boulevard, 
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850, telephone (410)-786-6620; or 
Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 
1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, 
Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-7050. Information also is 
available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, where an agenda for the meeting will be 
posted when available.

    Dated: April 28, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 99-11123 Filed 5-3-99; 8:45 am]
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