[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 104 (Tuesday, May 31, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34358-34359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12160]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

AGENCY: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), HHS

ACTION: Notice of full committee and subcommittee meetings.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department 
of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.

DATES: Tuesday, June 14, 2016: 9 a.m.-5:40 p.m.--Full Committee 
Meeting.
    Wednesday, June 15, 2016: 8 a.m.-2:25 p.m.--Full Committee Meeting.
    Thursday, June 16, 2016: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.--Privacy Subcommittee 
Meeting on ``Minimum Necessary and the Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act (HIPAA)''.
    Friday, June 17, 2016: 8:15 a.m.-4 p.m.--NCVHS Meeting on Claims-
based Databases for Policy Development and Evaluation.

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ADDRESSES: The public meetings on June 14-16, 2016 will be held at the 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey 
Building, Room 705-A, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 
20024. The public meeting on June 17, 2016 will be held at the Wilbur 
J. Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue SW, Snow Room, #5051, 
Washington, DC 20201. Phone: (202) 690-7100.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Substantive program information may be 
obtained from Rebecca Hines, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National 
Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 
(301) 458-4715. 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 and 
information for remote audio access to the meetings will be posted.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC 
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) as soon 
as possible.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At the June 14-15, 2016 meeting the Committee will hear 
presentations and hold discussions on several health data policy 
topics. The Committee will receive updates from the Department, 
including from the Office of the National Coordinator and the Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Committee will discuss and take 
action on two recommendation letters stemming from the February 16, 
2016 Standards Subcommittee hearing on the proposed Phase IV Operating 
Rules and proposed Attachment Standard. Findings from the June 2015 
Review Committee Hearing on Adopted Transaction Standards, Operating 
Rules, Code Sets and Identifiers also will be discussed. The Committee 
will review the current public health data landscape with briefings 
from the National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau and 
CDC's Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. 
CMS will provide a briefing on MACRA and the Merit-Based Incentive 
Payment System (MIPS). The Committee will further review its strategic 
plan for 2016 and all Subcommittees will report on work plans and next 
steps. The Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security will 
brief the full Committee on proceedings from the meeting on De-
identification and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 
Act (HIPAA) scheduled for May 24-25, 2016, and discuss preliminary 
findings.
    After the plenary session adjourns, the Work Group on HHS Data 
Access and Use will continue strategic discussions on building a 
framework for guiding principles for data access and use.
    Privacy-specific topics will be addressed during the same week at 
the following meeting: The NCVHS Privacy, Confidentiality and Security 
Subcommittee will hold a one day meeting on June 16, 2016 to review the 
state of implementation of current policies and practices of the Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Minimum 
Necessary provisions. The Subcommittee plans to identify and discuss 
issues and challenges that the industry is facing when addressing this 
requirement for potential recommendations to the HHS Secretary for 
policy and practice guidance addressing compliance with the ``minimum 
necessary'' standard.
    On June 17th the full Committee will hold a meeting to explore the 
current state of the art associated with the collection and use of 
Multipayor claims data bases. These data bases include private data 
bases (sometimes known as Multi-claims Data Bases) and State claims 
data bases referred to as All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs). The 
purpose of this meeting is to highlight the current state of 
development, challenges, issues, and opportunities faced by these 
initiatives, engage stakeholders on key issues, and identify priority 
areas and opportunities for recommendations to the Secretary of HHS and 
to the industry.


    Dated: May 16, 2016.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2016-12160 Filed 5-27-16; 8:45 am]
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