[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 90]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-28737]


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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 Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII).
    Time and Date: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., January 5, 2005; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 
January 6, 2005.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 705A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Workgroup will meet to discuss and hear testimony 
from invited experts on policy issues related to sponsorship of 
personal health records (PHRs), and to explore (1) consumer and 
patient perspectives on personal health records; (2) provider-based 
barriers to provider adoption; and, (3) the business case for PHRs 
and the related business issues.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members 
may be obtained from Mary Jo Deering, Lead Staff Person for the 
NCVHS Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure, 
Director for Informatics Dissemination, NCI Center for 
Bioinformatics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of 
Health, USDHHS, 6116 Executive Boulevard--400, Rockville, 
MD 20852, Phone: (301) 594-1273, Fax: (301) 480-3441, E-mail: 
[email protected] or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, 
NCVHS, National Center for Health Statics, 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 an agenda for the meeting will be posted 
when available.
    Should your require reasonable accommodation, please contact the 
CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: December 14, 2004.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 04-28737 Filed 12-30-04; 8:45 am]
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