[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 94 (Friday, May 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 26828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10930]


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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), 
Subcommittee on Standards and Security (SSS).
    Time and Date: May 25th: 9 a.m. -5 p.m.; May 26th: 8:30 a.m.-5 
p.m.; May 27th: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 505A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The main focus of the hearings will be on e-
prescribing: standards, practices, and incentives and barriers to 
adoption. The first day will include findings from a recent RAND 
study on e-prescribing, an overview of patient safety issues, 
perspectives from the two major e-prescribing networks, and 
presentations from several major implementation initiatives.
    The second day will include discussions on e-prescribing from 
the perspective of software vendors and knowledge base vendors. Time 
will be devoted later in the afternoon to follow up on issues 
related to the DSMO request on transaction standards for billing of 
supplies by retail pharmacies, which had been discussed at the March 
31, 2004, hearing of the Subcommittee.
    The morning of the third day will focus on the perspectives of 
health care providers on e-prescribing. The afternoon will be 
devoted to Subcommittee discussion and planning for future agendas.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of Committee members 
may be obtained from Maria Friedman, Health Insurance Specialist, 
Security and Standards Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, MS: C5-24-04, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 
21244-1850, telephone: 410-786-6333 or Marjorie S. Greenberg, 
Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 1100, Presidential 
Building, 3311 Toledo 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.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the 
CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: April 30, 2004.
James Scalon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 04-10930 Filed 5-13-04; 8:45 am]
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