[Federal Register: March 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 47)]
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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

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Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) 
Subcommittee on Standards and Security Workgroup on Computer-based 
Patient Records.
    Time and Date: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., March 29, 1999--9:00 
a.m. to 4:00 p.m., March 30, 1999.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The working group will hold hearings on standards for 
patient medical record information and their electronic transmission 
focusing on message standards, models for message standards, and the 
quality of the data found in patient medical record information.
    Notice: In the interest of security, the Department has 
instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. 
Humphrey building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without 
a government identification card will 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., Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 2101 East 
Jefferson Street, #602, Rockville, MD 20852, phone: 301-594-1483, 
x1052; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, 
CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, 
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-7050. 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.

    Dated: March 5, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 99-5987 Filed 3-10-99; 8:45 am]
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