[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 136 (Monday, July 17, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 40522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6256]


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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), Ad 
Hoc Workgroup on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
    Time and Date: July 26, 2006--8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Room 325, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Workgroup will hear public testimony related to 
functional requirements for a nationwide health information network and 
to discuss next steps in preparing a preliminary, minimal but inclusive 
set of functional requirements.
    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: July 10, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-6256 Filed 7-14-06; 8:45 am]
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