Federal Register Notice
6/02/98
(63 FR 29997)

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 16, 1998; 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., June 17, 1998.

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 brief the Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative simplification provisions of P.L. 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee will review its current organization and work plans. In addition, the Committee will discuss the quality of HEDIS data, possible comments on the report of the President's Commission on Quality and Consumer Protection, recommendations for HIPAA claims attachment standards, and possible comments on the HIPAA Notices of Proposed Rulemaking for the adoption of data standards. The Committee also will be briefed on plans for Healthy People 2010, National Health Objectives for the Nation, and the results of a CPRI Terminology Conference. Subcommittee breakout sessions are planned. All topics are tentative and subject to change. Please check the NCVHS website, where a detailed agenda will be posted prior to the meeting.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive information as well as summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs) or 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 S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201, telephone (202) 690- 7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, 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 26, 1998.

James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy.

[FR Doc. 98-14478 Filed 6-1-98; 8:45 am]

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