[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53946-53947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-21057]


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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., August 28, 2002. 9 a.m. to 3 
p.m., August 29, 2002.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 800, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Standards and Security plans to 
solicit testimony from a panel of invited experts in medical 
terminologies to help the Committee define the scope and the 
criteria for recommendations on the selection of Patient Medical 
Record Information (PMRI) terminologies under the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). On the second day the 
Subcommittee will hear from an expert panel about recent initiatives 
in the public and private sectors aimed at promoting and 
coordinating national activities for health data standards in 
support of achieving system interoperability and data comparability 
in order to meet clinical and public health needs. Additional 
general topics will include procedure codes and future health data 
standards recommendations to the HHS Secretary.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
Committee members may be obtained from Karen Trudel, Senior 
Technical Advisor, Security and Standards Group, Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, MS: C5-24-04, 7500 Security 
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850, telephone: 410-786-9937;

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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.

    Dated: August 2, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-21057 Filed 8-19-02; 8:45 am]
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