[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 54470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21433]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting 
Standards Subcommittee

    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
    Time and Date: September 18, 2013 8:30 p.m.--5:00 p.m. EDT.
    Place: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National 
Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Auditorium B & C, 
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, (301) 458-4524.
    Status: Open
    Purpose: The health care industry is experiencing major 
transformative changes as a result of the confluence of various 
national, regional and local initiatives, including: the Affordable 
Care Act, the adoption of electronic health records and the 
Meaningful Use program, implementation of national messaging and 
vocabulary standards for clinical exchanges, the establishment of 
regional health information exchanges, and adoption of new 
administrative standards, including new versions of HIPAA 
transactions, operating rules, ICD-10 and Health Plan ID. In light 
of these many pressing demands and requirements, the NCVHS Standards 
Sub-Committee is interested in developing a roadmap of key 
healthcare mandates and their impact on health IT standards that 
identify and map: (1) The various upcoming health care compliance 
requirements and deadlines that relate to health IT standards, in a 
multi-year timeline; (2) the milestones needed to successfully 
achieve these compliance requirements, including the development and 
testing of standards; (3) the underlying standards needed to achieve 
those milestones and requirements; (4) the interdependencies of the 
various compliance requirements, milestones and standards 
development processes; (5) the gaps, overlaps and issues with these 
requirements; and, (6) opportunities for better alignment, 
synergistic coordination, and most effective, appropriate sequencing 
of requirements, milestones and standards development.
    To discuss these issues, this meeting will bring together 
subject-matter experts and representatives from various stakeholders 
to discuss questions related to each of the six items identified 
above in a facilitated exchange format. Topics to be covered 
include, but will not be limited to: (1) Administrative 
Transactions, Codes, Identifiers, and Operating Rules; (2) ACA-
related health information exchange requirements; (3) Meaningful 
Use; (4) Quality and Patient Safety; and, (5) Privacy and Security.
    Contact Person for More Information: 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 or 
Denise Buenning, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office 
of E-Health Standards and Services, 7500 Security Boulevard, 
Baltimore, Maryland, 21244, telephone (410) 786-6711. Program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members are available on the NCVHS 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: August 26, 2013.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2013-21433 Filed 9-3-13; 8:45 am]
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