[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 50349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16978]


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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: September 8, 2005, 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m.; September 9, 
2005, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 705A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    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 updates and status reports 
from the Department on various topics including activities of the HHS 
Data Council, the adoption of Clinical Data Standards, and HIPAA 
Privacy Rule compliance. They will also hear a presentation on personal 
health records systems and discuss a letter to the HHS Secretary from 
the Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure. In the 
afternoon the Committee will discuss its annual report along with its 
7th report to Congress on implementation of HIPAA and hear an update 
from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology.
    On the morning of the second day the Committee will review and 
identify preliminary issues for action at its November meeting and hear 
a report from the Executive Subcommittee's retreat. There will also be 
briefing on the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's reports on 
health disparities and quality. In the afternoon, there will be reports 
from the Subcommittees and a 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 Web site (URL below) when available.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information as 
well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may be 
obtained from 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.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 at (301) 458-4EEO (4336) as soon 
as possible.

    Dated: August 12, 2005.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 05-16978 Filed 8-25-05; 8:45 am]
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