[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 18 (Friday, January 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 4126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1619]


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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: February 1st, 2005 9 a.m.-5 p.m., February 2nd, 
2005 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Room 505A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee will continue to focus on potential e-
prescribing standards, including a discussion on the use of RxNorm 
in the e-prescribing context and an update from the industry on the 
progress of related workgroups (e.g., codified SIG). The development 
of a draft recommendation letter to the HHS Secretary will be 
discussed.
    Contact Person For More Information: 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: January 14, 2005.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 05-1619 Filed 1-27-05; 8:45 am]
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