[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 31, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 51824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17345]


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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: September 21, 2005: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; September 22, 
2005: 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 705A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: On the first day the Subcommittee will focus on two 
topics: introductory discussions of the issues surrounding matching 
patients with their records, and then continued explorations into 
issues around HIPAA Return on Investment (ROI). The second day open 
with an overview of the e-prescribing pilots required under Medicare 
Modernization Act (MMA) and will move to continued discussions on 
the secondary use of clinical data.
    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.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) 458-3EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: August 23, 2005.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 05-17345 Filed 8-30-05; 8:45 am]
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