Federal Register
November 11, 1996 (Volume 61)
Notices
(Page 56962)

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., November 14, 1996; 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., November 15, 1996.

Place: Room 503A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The meeting will focus on the Committee's new responsibilities as outlined in the administrative simplification provisions of Public Law 104-191, as well as on related matters. Departmental officials will brief the Committee on recent developments, activities of the HHS Data Council, and related data policy activities. The Committee also is scheduled to begin the first of a series of discussions on health data standards: ANSI HISB representatives are scheduled to brief the Committee on an inventory of administrative transaction data standards; representatives from the health data standards community, the health quality assurance community, the public health and research communities, State and local governments and other interested and affected parties are scheduled to describe their perspectives on health data standards. The Committee also will discuss its priorities and work plans.

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 should plan to arrive at the building each day either between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. or 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. so they can be escorted to the meeting. Entrance to the meeting at other times during the day cannot be assured.

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 S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, telephone (202) 690-7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Acting Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/436-7050.

Dated: October 29, 1996.

James Scanlon, Director,
Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 96-28297 Filed 11-4-96; 8:45 am]
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