[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 117 (Monday, June 19, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35272-35273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-5517]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committe 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), 
Ad Hoc Workgroup on the Nationwide Health Information Network 
(NHIN).
    Time and Date: June 29, 2006--10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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    Place: Natcher Conference Center Auditorium, National Institutes 
of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics 
(NCVHS) has been asked by the Office of the National Coordinator for 
Health Information Technology (ONC) to assist in the process of 
identifying a set of minimal but inclusive functional requirements 
for Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) service. An Ad Hoc 
NCVHS Workgroup on the NHIN has been organized to pursue this 
activity. The Workgroup will meet at the end of the Nationwide 
Health Information Network Forum to receive reports from the Forum 
break-out sessions and take public comment. The final intent is to 
develop a document that recommends a minimum but inclusive set of 
functional requirements, focusing on critical technical components 
of architectures to support a Nationwide Health Information Network.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members 
may be obtained from Mary Jo Deering Ph.D., Lead Staff Person for 
the NCVHS Workgroup on the National Health Information 
Infrastructure, NCI Center for Strategic Dissemination and NCI 
Center for Bioinformatics, National Cancer Institute, National 
Institutes of Health, 6116 Executive Boulevard--Room 4087, 
Rockville, MD 20852, telephone (301) 594-8193, 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.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: June 9, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-5517 Filed 6-16-06; 8:45am]
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