[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 19476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-7396]


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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), 
Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII).
    Time and Date: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m April 26, 2005. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. 
April 27, 2005.
    Place: Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20024.
    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), to discuss market forces promoting or inhibiting 
acceptance and adoption of PHRs (``tethered'' and ``untethered'') by 
providers, plans, and employers; and to explore strategies for 
overcoming major barriers to widespread adoption of PHRs by major 
stakeholders. The Subcommittee will also be briefed on other key 
developments related to PHRs.
    Contact Person for more information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee 
members may be obtained from Mary Jo Deering, Lead 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 
Blvd. --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 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.nevhs.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 5, 2005.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 05-7396 Filed 4-12-05; 8:45 am]
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