[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14660-14661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7108]


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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., March 25, 2003; 9 a.m. to 1 
p.m., March 26, 2003.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 505A on March 25, Room 
705A on March 26, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee will continue the process of 
evaluating PMRI terminologies

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in order to select and recommend these terminologies as HIPAA PMRI 
Terminology Standards. The information that will be reviewed was 
gathered from the NCVHS PMRI Terminology Questionnaire in January 
and February 2003. Dr. Walter Sujansky, consultant to the 
Subcommittee, will present an analysis of the results from the 
questionnaire. The Subcommittee will then consider the issues raised 
by this analysis and determine whether additional information is 
needed from PMRI terminology developers. It will also formulate the 
questions that will be addressed by the users of PMRI terminologies 
when they testify to the Subcommittee on May 21st.
    For Further Information Contact: 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 Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where 
an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.
    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.

    Dated: March 14, 2003.
James Scanlon,
Acting Director, Office of Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 03-7108 Filed 3-25-03; 8:45 am]
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