[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 170 (Thursday, September 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22821]


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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 27, 1999; 10:15 
a.m.-3:30 p.m., September 28, 1999.
    Place: Conference Room 705A, 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 discuss its forthcoming report on Medicaid managed care 
data issues, as well as a report to the Secretary concerning 
standards for computer-based patient records, and plans for a 
November, 1999 workshop at the National Academy of Sciences on 
Health Statistics for the 21st Century. The Committee also will 
receive briefings on quality of care data issues and the revision of 
the U.S. Standard Certificates for Live Birth and Death for 2002. In 
addition, Subcommittee breakout sessions and reports to the full 
Committee are planned.
    All topics are tentative and subject to change. Prior to the 
meeting, please check the NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda 
will be posted when available.
    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 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: August 26, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 99-22821 Filed 9-1-99; 8:45 am]
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