[Federal Register: June 4, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 107)]
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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 announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
    Times And Dates: 9:00 a.m.--5:30 p.m., June 23, 1999; 9:00 
a.m.--5:00 p.m., June 24, 1999.
    Place: Conference Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 
Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The meeting will focus on a variety of health data 
policy and privacy issues. Department officials will update the 
Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the 
status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative 
simplification provision of Pub. L. 104-191, the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee 
also will be briefed on data issues in the Health Care Financing 
Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, a recent HHS-
supported report from the National Academy of Sciences dealing with 
data and measurement issues in health performance measurement in the 
public sector, and Healthy People 2010 data issues.
    Panel discussions are planned on data for measuring the quality 
of care, the role of demographic data in HIPAA administrative 
transactions, and developments in smart care technology in the 
health sector. In addition, Subcommittee breakout sessions and 
reports to the full Committee are planned.
    All topics are tentative and subject to change. Please check the 
NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda will be posted, prior to the 
meeting.
    Contact person for more information: Substantive information as 
well as summaries of NCHS meetings and a roster of committee members 
may be obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs) where an agenda for the meeting will be 
posted when available. Additional information may be obtained by 
calling James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff Director, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D, 
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201, 
telephone (202) 690-7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive 
Secretary, NCHVS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 
Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050.

    Note: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted 
stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey Building 
by non-government employees. Thus, individuals without a government 
identification card may need to have the guard call for an escort to 
the meeting room.

    Dated: May 28, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
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