[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50200-50201]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24584]


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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., October 9, 2001; 9 a.m. to 
12:30 p.m., October 10, 2001.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue S.W., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee is evaluating Patient Medical Record 
Information (PMRI) message format standards from ASTM, DICOM, HL7, 
IEEE, NCPDP Script, and Object Management Group. The Subcommittee 
will be receiving testimony from vendors, consultants and users of 
these standards with a possible outcome being the formulation of 
recommendations to the HHS Secretary about their use as HIPAA 
standards.

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    Notice: In the interest of security, HHS has instituted 
stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey building 
by non-government employees. Persons without a government 
identification card may 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: September 21, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-24584 Filed 10-1-01; 8:45 am]
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