[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 13721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05009]


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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 meeting.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Full Committee Meeting.
    Dates and Times: Wednesday, March 31, 2021: 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 
EST. Thursday, April 1, 2021: 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST.
    Place: Virtual.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: As outlined in its Charter, the National Committee on 
Vital and Health Statistics assists and advises the Secretary of HHS on 
health data, data standards, statistics, privacy, national health 
information policy, and the Department's strategy to best address those 
issues. At the March 31-April 1, 2021, meeting, the Committee will 
receive updates from HHS officials, hold discussions on current health 
data policy topics, and discuss its work plan for the upcoming period.
    The Chair will facilitate discussion of the Committee's draft 
Fourteenth Report to Congress. The Subcommittee on Standards will 
discuss plans for furthering work on convergence of administrative and 
clinical data standards. The Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, 
and Security will follow up on its September 2020 hearing on data 
collection and use with respect to privacy and security during the 
pandemic and discuss plans for the next topic on which the Subcommittee 
will develop recommendations. In addition, the Committee anticipates 
briefings on current projects directly relevant to the Committee's 
work, such as new standards for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) 
data and a comparative analysis of ICD-10-CM with ICD-11 for morbidity 
coding.
    The Committee will reserve time for public comment toward the end 
of the schedule on both days. Meeting times and topics are subject to 
change. Please refer to the agenda posted at the NCVHS website for this 
meeting, https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/full-committee-meeting-7/, 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, or via electronic mail to [email protected]; or by telephone (301) 
458-4715. You can find a list of upcoming meetings, recent past 
meetings, and recent reports and recommendations on the NCVHS website, 
https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/. You can review the agenda for the meeting and 
instructions on how to access the broadcast of the meeting by 
navigating to the March 31-April 1 dates on the home page or on the 
NCVHS Meetings page, https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings-meeting/.
    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. 2021-05009 Filed 3-9-21; 8:45 am]
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