[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 16025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-07709]


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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 hearing.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Full Committee Meeting.
    Date and Times: Wednesday, June 5, 2019: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (EST), 
Thursday, June 6, 2019: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (EST)
    Place: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. 
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Rm. 505A, Washington, DC 
20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At the June 5-6, 2019 meeting, the Committee will 
deliberate draft recommendations for the HHS Secretary, move forward on 
activities outlined in the NCVHS 2019 workplan, and hold discussions on 
several health data policy topics. Anticipated action items during this 
meeting include a letter that outlines recommendations to the Secretary 
and an accompanying report focused on a framework for health 
information privacy and security.
    Specifically, the Privacy, Confidentiality and Security 
Subcommittee will provide an update to the full Committee regarding its 
working meeting held in March 2019 focused on health information 
privacy and security beyond the scope of HIPAA. This will include 
discussion of a draft report that will lay out a framework for 
extending basic protections for health information privacy and 
security, a result of two years of NCVHS hearings and deliberations, to 
understand the environment and consider what might be a workable 
framework that supports innovative use of health information to advance 
health and wellness and reduces administrative burden, while protecting 
the rights of information subjects. Together with this draft report, 
the Subcommittee plans to present a draft set of recommendations to the 
HHS Secretary based on the framework put forth in the report for full 
Committee deliberation.
    The Subcommittee on Standards will review the timeline of its ICD-
11 evaluation project and discuss any refinements that result from 
exploration of existing research on the impact of the transition to 
ICD-10, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS. The Subcommittee will update the 
full Committee regarding progress on plans for an August expert 
roundtable meeting, which will focus on identifying research questions 
HHS could address to evaluate benefit and cost of the upcoming 
transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 for mortality and morbidity. The 
Subcommittee will report on continued progress on the elements of a 
Predictability Roadmap in follow up to its December 2018 hearing--the 
current focus will be on evaluating the function and purpose of the 
Designated Standards Maintenance Organizations (DSMOs) in light of 
changes in the health care standards environment and the need for 
harmonization of administrative and clinical standards. Finally, the 
Subcommittee anticipates continuing discussion and possible activities 
in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health 
Information and Technology (ONC) regarding the opportunity for burden 
reduction through convergence of administrative and clinical data 
standards using the prior authorization transaction as a use-case.
    The Subcommittee on Population Health will provide an update on its 
work to address community data needs, including use-cases, for the full 
Committee to consider providing as input to the Federal Data Strategy. 
The Committee will further refine the remainder of its 2019 workplan 
and discuss potential options moving into fiscal year 2020.
    The times and topics are subject to change. Please refer to the 
posted agenda for any updates.
    Contact Persons 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 website: 
www.ncvhs.hhs.gov, where further information including an agenda and 
instructions to access the broadcast of the meeting 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: April 11, 2019.
Sharon Arnold,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 
Science and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning 
and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2019-07709 Filed 4-16-19; 8:45 am]
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