[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72668-72669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33621]


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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 Populations.
    Times and Dates: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., January 24, 2000; 10 a.m.-4 
p.m., January 25, 2000
    Place: Conference Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations will meet on January 
24-25, 2000 to discuss and assess the feasibility of recording, 
evaluating and analyzing measures of functional status on health 
records, such as enrollment in health plans, records of medical 
encounters, and standardized attachments to such records. Several 
panels of experts will explore issues related to the collection of 
information on functional status in administrative records and data 
collection systems, and will discuss data collection and measurement 
efforts necessary to address the issue effectively. This is the 
first of several public meetings being planned by the Subcommittee 
to discuss this topic.
    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

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visiting the NCVHS website (http://ncvhs.hhs.gov)) where an agenda 
for the meeting will be posted when available.
    Additional information may be obtained by calling Carolyn Rimes, 
Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Populations, Office 
of Research and Demonstrations, Health Care Financing 
Administration, MS-C-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) 458-4245.

    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: December 21, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 99-33621 Filed 12-27-99; 8:45 am]
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