[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 14389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5972]


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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 (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Standards and Security.
    Times and Dates: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 19, 2001; and 9 a.m. to 
5 p.m., March 20, 2001.
    Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is for NCVHS to obtain 
public input for the process of making recommendations to the HHS 
Secretary about specific standards for Patient Medical Record 
Information (PMRI). The process will include developing (1) criteria 
for the selection of PMRI message format standards for 
recommendation to the HHS Secretary, (2) a draft set of questions to 
PMRI standards developers which is intended to assist the NCVHS 
select PMRI standards, (3) a proposed list of PMRI transactions that 
may be considered in the first phase for recommendation to the HHS 
Secretary, and (4) making any additional comments or critiques about 
this process.
    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, 
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.

    Dated: March 2, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-5972 Filed 3-9-01; 8:45 am]
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