[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 230 (Friday, December 1, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56978-56979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-25895]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Teleconference

    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), 
Full Committee Meeting.
    Dates and Times:
Tuesday, January 9, 2018: 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, January 10, 2018: 8:45 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET
    Place: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. 
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Rm. 705A, Washington, 
DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At the January 9-10, 2018 full meeting, the Committee will 
hear presentations, hold discussions on several health data policy 
topics and begin work on activities outlined in the NCVHS 2018 
workplan. An environmental scan report will be reviewed and discussed 
by the full Committee as part of the Health Information Privacy and 
Security Beyond HIPAA project. This effort includes an exploration of 
challenges that extend beyond HIPAA and the range of policy options 
that may be available to the Department related to privacy, security 
and access measures to

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protect individually identifiable health information in an environment 
of electronic networking and multiple uses of data. The Population 
Health Subcommittee will focus on Next Generation Vital Statistics in 
follow up to the hearing held September 11-12, 2017 and subsequent 
analyses conducted following the hearing. The purpose of the hearing 
was to assess the current state of the national vital statistics system 
(NVSS) to address concerns regarding sustainability and viability of 
the system infrastructure. Also addressed was the system's capacity to 
provide timely, high quality, secure vital administrative and 
statistical data for identity establishment and protection, 
identification of trends in disease and epidemics, e.g., the recent 
surge in opioid-related deaths, and a host of critical uses for 
research, finance, planning, public records and services. The Committee 
will discuss concerns regarding decreased access to county and 
community-level data and potential plans to conduct work to address the 
issue. The Committee will also discuss the Predictability Roadmap as 
part of the Standards Subcommittee's project to identify possible 
approaches to improve the predictability and improvements in the 
adoption and processes related to updating standards and operating 
rules for electronic administrative transactions (e.g. claims, 
eligibility, electronic funds transfer); health terminology & 
vocabulary development, maintenance, and dissemination processes; and 
mapping out activities and timelines for the Committee's 2018 work.
    The times and topics are subject to change. Please refer to the 
posted agenda for any updates.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information may be obtained from Rebecca Hines, MHS, 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 home page of the NCVHS Web site: 
http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further information including an 
agenda and instructions to access the audio broadcast of the meetings 
will also be posted.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC 
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (770) 488-3210 as soon as 
possible.

    Dated: November 27, 2017.
Laina Bush,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2017-25895 Filed 11-30-17; 8:45 am]
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