[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 5849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-1005]


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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 (HCVHS).
    Time and Date: February 22, 2006, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; February 23, 
2006, 10 a.m.-1:15 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, and updates on HIPAA implementation, 
clinical data standards, the E-Prescribing Final Rule, and Privacy 
Rule compliance. They will also hear any updates on data issues and 
opportunities from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and on activities of 
the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology. In the afternoon the Committee will be briefed on the 
Institute on Medicine's recent report on performance monitoring.
    On the morning of the second day the Committee will hear an 
update on the National Health Information Network report and a 
presentation on data release and confidentiality issues for vital 
statistics led by a representative of the National Center for Health 
Statistics. 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 HCVHS 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 on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: January 25, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OSDP), Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-1005 Filed 2-2-06; 8:45 am]
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