[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3604-3605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1188]


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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: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., February 1, 2001 or ; 8:30 a.m. 
to 2 p.m., February 2, 2001.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenure, SW, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is to monitor to the progress 
of implementation of the Administrative Simplification Provisions of 
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 
identified issues that need to be addressed to insure successful 
implementation. Specific hearing topics for the first day include: the 
Designated Standard Maintenance Organization's change process; data and 
transaction standard issues identify by the Healthcare Industry to 
date; Institutional Provider NDC code set concerns; and a status report 
from the standard developers on digital/electronic signature standards. 
The second half-day session will include a discussion of the 
Subcommittee's next steps related to Patient's Medical Record 
Information standards and the annual NCVHS report to Congress on HIPAA 
Administrative Simplification implementation progress.
    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 have 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.


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    Dated: January 8, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-1188 Filed 1-12-01; 8:45 am]
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