[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 43023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17632]


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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.-4:45 p.m., July 17, 2000; 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 
July 18, 2000.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Hemphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting, the Subcommittee on Populations will 
continue to assess the feasibility of using the International 
Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH) 
system to classify functional status on administrative health 
records, such as enrollment forms for health plans, records of 
medical encounters, and standardized attachments to such records. 
Panelists will explore issues related to the potential application 
of the ICIDH for such records and will discuss data collection and 
measurement efforts necessary to address the issues effectively. 
This is the third of several public meetings being planned by the 
Subcommittee to discuss the topic of the feasibility of recording 
functional status on administrative health records.

    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.

    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members 
may be obtained from Susan G. Queen, Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS 
Subcommittee on Populations, Division of Information and Analysis, 
Office of the Administrator, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Room 14-22, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 
20852, telephone (301) 443-1129; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive 
Secretary, NVCHS, 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: July 5, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Date Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 00-17632 Filed 7-11-00; 8:45 am]
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