[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 24480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11224]


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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 (SSS).
    Time and Date: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., May 20, 2003. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 
May 21, 2003. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 22, 2003.
    Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1489 Jefferson Davis Highway, 
Arlington, VA 22202, (703) 416-1600.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: On May 20th the National Committee on Vital and Health 
Statistics (NCVHS) through the Subcommittee on Standards and 
Security (SSS) will address two topics. The first topic involves 
HIPAA contingency planning in which the subcommittee will hear 
testimony from the Workshop for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), 
healthcare payers, and healthcare providers. The second topic will 
be a roundtable discussion with members of the Consolidated Health 
Informatics (CHI) initiative, one of the 24 projects within the 
federal E-Government Strategy. The roundtable discussions will 
include the CHI healthcare industry outreach plan, the CHI target 
portfolio of clinical vocabulary domains, and the clinical 
messaging/vocabulary standards adopted and under consideration by 
CHI.
    On May 21st-22nd NCVHS/SSS will address two issues. The first 
issue is the next phase of activities on Patient Medical Record 
Information (PMRI), which will recommend PMRI terminology standards 
to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The 
first two steps of the process were to hear testimony from 
terminology experts for defining the scope and criteria when 
selecting standard PMRI terminologies and to obtain information from 
PMRI terminology developers. The third step, which is planned for 
this day-and-a-half portion of this meeting, is to hear the 
experiences of the users of these terminologies. For this step, the 
Subcommittee will hear testimony from software application vendors, 
terminology server vendors and healthcare end-users of the PMRI 
terminologies that were identified in the initial steps of the 
process. On the afternoon of May 22nd, NCVHS/SSS will address the 
final topic, which is an update about the ICD-10 cost/benefit 
analysis project being conducted by the Subcommittee.
    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 Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda for the meeting will be posted 
when available.

    Dated: April 29, 2003.
James Scanlon,
Acting Director, Office of Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 03-11224 Filed 5-6-03; 8:45 am]
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