[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 26856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12211]


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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., May 31, 2001; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 
June 1, 2001.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this hearing, the subcommittee will hear testimony 
regarding the process and outcomes for assessing requests for 
changes to the transaction standards designated under HIPAA, as well 
as assess industry progress in identifying a consensus standard for 
electronic signatures.
    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: May 7, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-12211 Filed 5-14-01; 8:45 am]
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