[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 198 (Thursday, October 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60672-60673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26096]


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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 Standards and Security.
    Time and Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 26, 2000, 9 a.m. to 5 
p.m., October 27, 2000.
    Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is to allow the 
Subcommittee to better understand the current state of the issues 
related to electronic signatures from a business perspective, as 
they apply to the NCVHS recommendations to the Secretary of HHS 
concerning the adoption of an electronic signature standard to be 
used in healthcare under the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This hearing will center on the 
business issues, legal considerations, standards available for 
adoption, current electronic signature practices, relationship with 
other industries, feasibility, and barriers for the adoption of 
standards for electronic signatures. Technical and infrastructure 
issues will only be discussed as they relate to the central topics 
described above, and will not be the focus of the hearing.
    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, 
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 Majorie 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.


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    Dated: October 4, 2000.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 00-26096 Filed 10-11-00; 8:45 am]
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