[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 30215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14057]


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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).
    Time and Date:

June 27, 2001--9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
June 28, 2001--10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

    Place: Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th Street, NW., Washington, DC, 
(202) 898-9000.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting the Committee will hear presentations 
and hold discussions on several health data policy topics. On the 
first day an update from HHS has been scheduled on the 
implementation of the administrative simplification provisions of 
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 
(HIPAA). The Committee also will be briefed by HHS staff on a number 
of additional data policy activities including quality of care for 
racial and ethnic minorities and the implementation of OMB federal 
data standards on race and ethnicity. The Committee will review 
reports in progress including the report from the Subcommittee on 
Populations on functional status data, and Subcommittees will hold 
working sessions in the afternoon. There will also be Subcommittee 
sessions early in the morning of the second day. Day two of the full 
Committee meeting will feature a briefing on the HHS Patient Safety 
Task Force, the National Quality Forum and the National Quality 
Report from the Institute of Medicine. The afternoon agenda begins 
with a briefing on the status of the Centers for Disease Control's 
National Electronic Data Surveillance System (NEDSS). The remainder 
of the afternoon's agenda will be devoted to Committee business 
including reports from the Subcommittees and planning future 
agendas.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from 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 further 
information including an agenda will be posted when available.

    Dated: May 30, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-14057 Filed 6-4-01; 8:45 am]
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