[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 1898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-724]


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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.
    Time and Date: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., January 24, 2000; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 
January 25, 2000.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations is holding this meeting 
to 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. Panelists will explore issues related 
to the collection of information on functional status for 
administrative records and data collection systems, and will discuss 
data collection and measurement efforts necessary to address the 
issues effectively. This is the first of several public meetings 
being planned by the Subcommittee to discuss this topic.
    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 Carolyn Rimes, Lead Staff 
Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Populations, 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) 458-
4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the 
HHS website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where an agenda for the 
meeting will be posted when available.

    Dated: January 6, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 00-724 Filed 1-11-00; 8:45 am]
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