[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 14 (Friday, January 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 3452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1460]


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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).

JOINT MEETING: Subcommittee on Standards and Security and Workgroup on 
Computer-based Patient Records.xxx

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., January 31, 2000; 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 
p.m., February 1, 2000.

PLACE: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 
SW, Washington, DC 20201.

STATUS: Open.

PURPOSE: The Subcommittee and Working Group will review the first draft 
of its report to the HHS Secretary on standards for patient medical 
records information as required by the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Subcommittee will review the 
recommendations contained in the report, specify proposed revisions in 
the draft report, and confirm the work plan for the completion of the 
report. On the second day, the Subcommittee will be updated on HHS 
activities related to the implementation of the administrative 
simplification provisions of HIPAA, will review its overall work plan 
for the year 2000, and review the first draft of the annual NCVHS 
report to Congress on implementation of the HIPAA administrative 
simplification provisions.

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 J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor for 
Information Technology, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, 
2101 East Jefferson Street, #600, Rockville, MD 20852, phone: (301) 
594-3938; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, 
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, 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 13, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
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