[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 130 (Monday, July 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 32463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14375]


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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 program.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Standards.
    Date and Times:
Tuesday, August 6, 2019: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (EDT)
Wednesday, August 7, 2019: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (EDT)
    Place: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. 
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Rm. 705-A, Washington, 
DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    There will be an opportunity for public comment at the end of the 
second day of the meeting.
    Purpose: The NCVHS Charter calls for the Committee to ``Study the 
issues related to the adoption of uniform data standards for patient 
medical record information and the electronic exchange of such 
information and report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(HHS) recommendations and legislative proposals for such standards and 
electronic exchange.'' Further, the Committee is to ``Advise the 
Department on health data collection needs and strategies; review and 
monitor the Department's data and information systems to identify 
needs, opportunities, and problems.'' Terminologies and vocabularies 
are also a dimension of the Committee's charge as part of advising the 
Secretary and reporting to Congress on adoption of standards under the 
Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
    Through the Subcommittee on Standards, the Committee conducted a 
comprehensive environmental scan of the state of health terminologies 
and vocabularies in the US. The environmental scan findings are 
detailed in the Report, ``Health Terminologies and Vocabularies 
Environmental Scan'' completed in September 2018.\i\ The Committee also 
hosted an expert roundtable meeting in July 2018 to review and comment 
on the environmental scan and to discuss current challenges and future 
adoption needs and pathways.\ii\
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    \i\ NCVHS Health Terminologies and Vocabularies Environmental 
Scan. https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Report-Health-Terminologies-and-Vocabularies-Environmental-Scan.pdf.
    \ii\ NCVHS The Health Terminologies and Vocabularies Expert 
Roundtable Meeting Summary, July 17-18, 2018. https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Report-Health-Terminologies-and-Vocabularies-Expert-Roundtable-Report.pdf.
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    Based on this work, developing recommendations to the Secretary 
regarding adoption and use of the new version of the International 
Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in the US is one of the near-term 
areas of obligation identified by the Committee for focus in 2019. The 
World Health Organization (WHO) released ICD-11 in June 2018 so 
countries could preview and begin their planning. In May 2019, the 
World Health Assembly voted to approve adoption of ICD-11 with an 
effective date of January 1, 2022. ICD-11 is intended by the WHO for 
use for both mortality (i.e., cause of death) reporting and morbidity 
(i.e., diseases) reporting.
    The goal of this expert roundtable meeting is to identify research 
questions to inform evaluation of the benefit and cost of transition 
from ICD-10 to ICD-11 for mortality and morbidity. Specific meeting 
objectives include:
     Developing a shared understanding of lessons from the ICD-
10 planning process/transition and the differences between ICD-10 and 
ICD-11.
     Reaching consensus on the research questions to be 
answered to inform evaluation of cost and benefit of transition from 
ICD-10 to ICD-11 for mortality and morbidity--and to identify impacts 
of not moving to ICD-11 for morbidity.
     Identifying key topics and messages to communicate to the 
industry to foster early stakeholder engagement and preparation for the 
transition to ICD-11.
    The times and topics for this meeting are subject to change. Please 
refer to the posted agenda at www.ncvhs.hhs.gov for 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 NCVHS website: 
www.ncvhs.hhs.gov, where further information including a meeting agenda 
and instructions to access the live broadcast of the meeting will be 
posted.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC 
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (770) 488-3210 as soon as 
possible.

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. 2019-14375 Filed 7-5-19; 8:45 am]
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