[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 219 (Thursday, November 13, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64349-64350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28434]


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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 (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
    Time and Date: November 5, 2003, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m.; November 6, 
2003, 10 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Room 505A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting the Committee will hear presentations and 
hold discussions on several health data policy topics. On the morning 
of the first day the full Committee will hear updates and status 
reports from the Department on several topics including HHS Data 
Council activities, the adoption of data standards including clinical 
data standards, and privacy rule compliance. A presentation on summary 
health measures is also planned with subsequent discussion. In the 
afternoon there will be a discussion of recommendations, reports and 
letters that the Committee is working on in selected areas including 
patient medical record information standards, the Consolidated 
Healthcare Informatics Initiative, ICD-10 CM, and activities directly 
relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 
1996 (HIPAA.) The Committee also plans to hear about activities of the 
Subcommittee on Populations during this session. On the second day the 
Committee will discuss its quality report and hear a presentation on 
the planned National Children's Study. There will also be reports from 
the Subcommittees and discussion of agendas for future NCVHS meetings.
    The time shown above are for the full Committee meeting. 
Subcommittee breakout sessions are scheduled for late in the afternoon 
of the first day and in the morning prior to the full Committee meeting 
on the second day. Agendas for these breakout sessions will be posted 
on the NCVHS Web site (URL below) when available.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information as 
well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may be 
obtained from Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, 
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 2402, 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 further 
information including an agenda will be posted when available.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC 
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) as soon 
as possible.


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    Dated: October 27, 2003.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 03-28434 Filed 11-12-03; 8:45 am]
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