[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 65127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26882]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Standards and Security.
    Time and Date: October 22, 2002; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. October 23, 2002; 
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: In the morning session on October 22, the Subcommittee 
on Standards and Security will review the current status of 
implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act (HIPAA) and will discuss best practices resulting 
from that implementation. In the afternoon the subcommittee will be 
briefed on drug terminologies from the Food and Drug Administration 
(FDA) and will discuss and prepare for the November full Committee 
meeting relating to the issues of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. On 
October 23 the subcommittee will review a summary of the testimony 
from the expert panel in medical terminology heard at the August 28-
29 subcommittee meeting. From the review and discussion the 
subcommittee intends to define the scope and the criteria for 
recommendations to the Department on the selection of Patient Record 
Medical Information (PMRI) terminologies under HIPAA.
    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, MD: C5-24-04, 7500 Security 
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850, telephone: 410-786-9937; or 
Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center 
for Health Statics, 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: October 15, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-26882 Filed 10-22-02; 8:45 am]
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