Federal Register Notice
March 6, 1997
(62 FR 10277)

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 a.m.-5:30 p.m., March 13, 1997; 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., March 14, 1997.

Place: Room 703A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The meeting will focus on the Committee's progress in addressing new responsibilities in health data standards and health information privacy as outlined in the administrative simplification provisions of P.L. 104-191, as well as on related matters. Departmental officials will brief the Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council, the status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative simplification provisions of P.L. 104-191, and related data policy activities. The Committee is scheduled to hear reports from its subcommittees and work groups dealing with privacy and confidentiality, data standards and populations at risk.

Information presentations are scheduled on conceptual frameworks for coding and classification, as well as on unique patient identifiers. The Committee also will discuss its priorities and work plans.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as summaries of the meeting and a roster of committee members may be obtained from 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 Greenberg, Acting Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050.

Dated: February 28, 1997.

James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy.

[FR Doc. 97-5517 Filed 3-5-97; 8:45 am]

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