[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 27 (Wednesday, February 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6373-6374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2960]


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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., February 23, 2000
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., February 24, 2000

    Place: Conference Room 703A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics 
is planning to meet on February 23-24, 2000. The meeting will focus 
on a variety of health data policy and privacy issues. Department 
officials will update the Committee on recent activities of

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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 and take action on its 
annual report to Congress on the Implementation of HIPAA. In 
addition, the Committee will discuss a draft of its forthcoming 
report to HHS on standards for patient medical record information. 
An export panel will discuss summary measures of population health, 
and IOM representatives will brief the Committee on the IOM medical 
errors report. Subcommittee breakout sessions also 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 
summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee members may be 
obtained by 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 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) 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: February 2, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 00-2960 Filed 2-8-00; 8:45 am]
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