[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 113 (Monday, June 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33022-33023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-13232]


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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: June 16, 2004--9 a.m.-2 p.m., June 17, 2004--10 
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 800/Eisenberg Room, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.

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    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 hear updated and status 
reports from the Department including topics such as Clinical Data 
Standards, the Consumer Health Informatics Initiative, and the 
Privacy Rule. In the afternoon there will be a presentation from the 
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) on its recently completed 
assessment of the racial and ethnic data collected by HHS and 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 be briefed 
on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Futures 
Initiative and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's 
(AHRQ) National Healthcare Disparities Report. In the Afternoon the 
Committee will be briefed on the Medicare Modernization Reform Act 
and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service's (CMS) Quality 
Initiatives. 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 (UL below) when 
available.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Majorie 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 
website: 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: May 28, 2004.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
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