[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 47493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22820]


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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 U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
    Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.--5:30 p.m., September 24, 2001, 9:00 
a.m.--4:00 p.m., September 25, 2001.
    Place: Conference Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue S.W., Washington D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics 
is scheduled to meet on September 24-25, 2001. The NCVHS is the 
Department's statutory public advisory body on health data, 
statistics, and health information policy. In addition, the 
Committee advises HHS on the implementation of the Administrative 
Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA). The meeting will focus on a 
variety of health data policy and privacy issues. Department 
officials will update the Committee on recent activities of the HHS 
Data Council and the status of HHS activities in implementing the 
administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA. A briefing from 
the HHS Deputy Chief Information Officer is planned, and GAO staff 
will brief the Committee on confidentiality practices and issues in 
record linkage for research purposes.
    The Committee is also expected to discuss and take action on 
recommendations to HHS from the Privacy and Confidentiality 
Subcommittee relating to the implementation of the HIPAA Health 
Information Privacy regulation, following a subcommittee public 
hearing on the subject in August. Subcommittee breakout sessions 
also are planned.
    All topics are tentative and subject to change. Prior to the 
meeting, please check the NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda 
will be posted when available.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Substantive information as well as 
summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee members may be 
obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http://ncvhs.hhs.gov) where an 
agenda for the meeting will be posted when available. Additional 
information may be obtained by calling James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive 
Staff Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201, telephone (202) 690-7100, or Marjorie 
S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, 
Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, 
telephone (301) 458-4245.

    Note: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted 
stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey Building 
by non-government employees. Thus, individuals without a government 
identification card may need to have the guard call for an escort to 
the meeting room.


    Dated: September 4, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 01-22820 Filed 9-11-01; 8:45 am]
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