[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 208 (Friday, October 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 54246]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-27035]


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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: November 15, 2001-9 a.m.-6 p.m.; November 16, 
2001-10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting the Committee will hear presentations 
and hold discussions on several health data policy topics. On the 
first day the full Committee will be briefed by HHS staff on a 
number of topics including an update on activities of the HHS Data 
Council; Departmental responses to recent reports and 
recommendations from the Committee; and the status of implementation 
of the administrative simplification provisions of the Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 including the 
status of privacy and data standards regulations. The Committee will 
be briefed by the HHS Chief Information Officer on HHS Information 
Technology activities. The Committee will then review the status of 
its draft report on the National Health Information Infrastructure 
(NHII). In the afternoon of the first day the Committee will review 
its privacy recommendations and be briefed on a Department of 
Defense E-Health Initiative. The Subcommittees on Privacy and 
Confidentiality and on Populations will hold working sessions late 
in the afternoon as will the NHII Workgroup.
    The Subcommittee on Standards and Security and the Workgroup on 
Quality will hold working sessions from 8 to 10 in the morning of 
the second day before the full Committee convenes. Day two of the 
full Committee meeting will feature an update on statistical 
activities of the National Center for Health Statistics from the 
Center's director. The Subcommittees and Working Groups will then 
report out from their working sessions and the remainder of the 
agenda will be devoted to planning future agendas.
    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 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 Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further 
information including an agenda will be posted when available.

    Dated: October 23, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-27035 Filed 10-25-01; 8:45 am]
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