[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32668-32669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2920]


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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 announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Populations--Working Group on Quality.
    Time and Date: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., June 19, 2007.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Room 505A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting the Subcommittee will learn about the 
current state of inpatient health care quality reporting utilizing 
one of three models: (1) All administrative data, (2) all electronic 
health record data, and (3) hybrid of administrative and electronic 
data. The anticipated knowledge to be gained includes the following: 
demonstration of effective models; demonstration of pitfalls to

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be avoided; and, identification of data elements that have been 
shown to add value and that should be considered as a structured 
element in electronic health records.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
Committee members may be obtained from Anna Poker, Lead Staff Person 
for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Special Populations, Working Group on 
Quality, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for 
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, 540 Gaither Road, Room 
3331, Rockville, MD 20850, Phone: 301-427-1802; or Marjorie 
S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, 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://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, 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: May 31, 2007.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
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