BILLING CODE: 4151-05
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 Standards and Security
TIME AND DATE:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., October 9, 2001
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., October 10, 2001
PLACE:
Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A
200 Independence Avenue S.W.
Washington, DC
STATUS:
Open.
PURPOSE:
The Subcommittee is evaluating Patient Medical Record Information (PMRI)
message format standards from ASTM, DICOM, HL7, IEEE, NCPDP Script, and Object
Management Group. The Subcommittee will be receiving testimony from vendors,
consultants and users of these standards with a possible outcome being the
formulation of recommendations to the HHS Secretary about their use as HIPAA
standards.
NOTICE:
In the interest of security, HHS has instituted stringent procedures for
entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey building by non-government employees.
Persons without a government identification card may need to have the guard
call for an escort to the meeting.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster
of committee members may be obtained from J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., Senior
Science Advisor for Information Technology, Agency for Health Care Research and
Quality, 2101 East Jefferson Street, #600, Rockville, MD 20852, phone: (301)
594-3938; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center
for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 1100,
Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782,
telephone (301) 458-4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page
of the HHS website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda
for the meeting will be posted when available.
Date: ____ /s/
James Scanlon
Director, Division of Data Policy
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation