[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63243-63244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30152]


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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., December 13, 2001, 8:30 a.m. to 3 
p.m., December 14, 2001.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: On the first day, the Subcommittee will focus on the 
patient medical record initiative. The Subcommittee will participate in 
a question and answer session with Standards Developing Organizations 
working in the area of message formats, and will discuss the letter 
conveying recommendations on this topic to the Secretary. The topic for 
the second day will be Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 
Act of 1996 (HIPAA) administrative simplification standards. The 
Subcommittee will hear testimony on industry readiness, and will 
discuss the 2001 report to Congress on the status of HIPAA 
administrative simplification implementation.
    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 web 
site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda for the meeting will be 
posted when available.


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    Dated: November 27, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-30152 Filed 12-4-01; 8:45 am]
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