[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 62 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 16920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7868]


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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: 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., April 13, 2000; and 9:30 
a.m.-2:00 p.m., April 14, 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 continue its discussions on the potential use of 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 discuss issues related to the 
measurement, collection, and classification of information on 
functional status and the potential uses of functional status 
measures for administrative records and data systems. This is the 
second of several public meetings planned by the Subcommittee to 
explore these issues.

    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 meetings.

    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
inforamtion 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: March 22, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 00-7868 Filed 3-29-00; 8:45 am]
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