[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 197 (Thursday, October 12, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60152-60153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-8621]


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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:

October 11, 2006 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
October 12, 2006 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
    Place: Herbert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 705A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of the meeting will be to hear testimony on a 
number of issues of interest to the Subcommittee including but not 
limited to, concerns and issues regarding implementation of the 
National Provider Identifier (NPI); recommendations from the Disability 
Workgroup; an update on the progress of the Medicare Modernization Act 
electronic prescribing pilots; and standards development organizations 
(SDOs) recommendations on streamlining the standards adoption process.
    For Further Information Contact: 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,

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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.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: October 2, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-8621 Filed 10-6-06; 4:12am]
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