[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 37 (Wednesday, February 25, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 8661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4168]


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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: March 4, 2004 9 a.m.-3 p.m., March 5, 2004 10 
a.m.-3 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 Committee will review letters to the 
HHS Secretary on claims attachments and privacy. A presentation on 
health statistics for the 21st century 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 quality, and racial and 
ethnic data. On the second day the Committee will hear updates and 
status reports from the Department on several topics including HHS 
Data Council activities, responses to NCVHS reports and 
recommendations, clinical data standards adoption, the Consumer 
Health Informatics Initiative, and the HIPAA privacy rule 
implementation. In the afternoon the Committee will discuss its 6th 
annual report to Congress on HIPAA implementation. There will also 
be reports from the Subcommittees and discussion of agendas for 
future Committee meetings.
    The times 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 website (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.

    Dated: February 12, 2004.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 04-4168 Filed 2-24-04; 8:45 am]
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