[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 241 (Monday, December 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77068-77069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-31556]


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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

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the following advisory committee meeting.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Standard and Security.
    Time and Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., December 10, 2002. 9 a.m. to 12:30 
p.m., December 11, 2002.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: In the morning session on December 10, the Subcommittee on 
Standards and Security will discuss the Administrative Simplification 
Compliance Act (ASCA) database statistics, identify HIPAA 
implementation best practices, and assess opportunities for improving 
the standards maintenance process. In the afternoon the Subcommittee 
will discuss the scope of work for the cost/benefit analysis regarding 
possible migration to ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and will discuss and prepare 
for the January Subcommittee hearings on complementary and alternative 
medicine issues. On December 11 the subcommittee will discuss the scope 
and the criteria for recommendations 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, MS: 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 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 an agenda for the meeting will 
be posted when available.

    Dated: December 4, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Acting Director, Office of Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-31556 Filed 12-13-02; 8:45 am]
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