[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7182-7183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3753]


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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:

  February 26, 2002--9 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

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  February 27, 2002--10 a.m.-3:30 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 number 
of topics including an update on activities of the HHS Data Council; 
Department responses to recent reports and recommendations from the 
Committee; and the status of implementation of the administrative 
simpllification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) including the status of privacy 
and data standards regulations. The Committee will hear 
presentations on Public Health Preparedness and the National Health 
Information Infrastructure from a panel of speakers, and a second 
panel of speakers will present on the Public Key Infrastructure. The 
Committee will also review drafts of written materials including its 
5th annual report to Congress on the implementation of HIPAA 
administrative simplification provisions. There will be Subcommittee 
breakout sessions late in the afternoon of the first day and prior 
to the full Committee meeting on the second day. On the second day 
the Committee will hear from the Director of the National Center for 
Health Statistics on that agency's activities and will be briefed by 
the HHS Office for Human Research Protections on the mission and 
purpose of that Office. Later in the day the Committee will hear 
reports from the Subcommittees and Workgroups. Finally, the agendas 
for future NCVHS meetings will be discussed.
    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 website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further 
information including an agenda will be posted when available.

    Dated: February 8, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-3753 Filed 2-14-02; 8:45 am]
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