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 announces the following advisory committee meeting.

NAME:

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS),
Subcommittee on Populations - Working Group on Quality

TIME AND DATE:

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., November 18, 2005

PLACE:

Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue SW , Room 705A
Washington , D.C. 20201

STATUS:

Open

PURPOSE:

At this meeting the Working Group on Quality will study the expected impact of the electronic health record on health measurement and quality, hearing views from patients, the public health community, and other stakeholders.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of Committee members may be obtained from Anna Poker, Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Special Populations, Working Group on Quality, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, 540 Gaither Road, Room # 3331, Rockville, MD 20850, Phone: 301-427-1802 ; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 458-4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.

Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) as soon as possible.

Date: ________________

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James Scanlon
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation