FINAL AGENDA

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

EXECUTIVE SUBCOMMITTEE

CONFERENCE CALL

Thursday, October 5, 2000

3:00 - 4:30 p.m. EDT

3:00 p.m.

Call to Order

Review agenda

Dr. Lumpkin
3:05 p.m.

Planning for November 28-29, 2000 NCVHS meeting

Information and discussion items:

Updates from the Department

  • Data Council
  • Responses to NCVHS reports and recommendations
  • Disparities, Leading Health Indicators, SCHIP
  • HHS Strategic Plan HHS
  • Implementation of HIPAA
  • Data standards
  • Privacy regulations
Dr. Lumpkin

Quality Panels

  • Panel on Quality (Follow-up from Medical Errors Report)
  • Panel on Performance Measurement Coordinating Council? (From 9/2000 agenda)

Briefing by NCHS Director

  • NCHS Update
  • Interagency Working Group on Summary Measures of Health
  • ECE-WHO Joint Meeting on Health Statistics (Oct. 23-25)

Other Briefings

  • Functional Status project
  • Regional hearings on 21st Century Vision and NHII
  • Panel with futurists?
  • Analysis of State privacy laws (NCSL, Health Privacy Project)
  • Digital signatures (From 9/2000 agenda)
  • WHO ICD/ICIDH meetings (MSG)
  • Quality of coding Race/Ethnicity in state surveillance data (Nancy Krieger)

Possible action items:

  • NCVHS Strategic Plan
  • Comments on Claims Attachment NPRM
  • Comments on PlanID NPRM
  • 50th Anniversary Symposium Summary
  • 50-year history (synthesis)
Subcommittee and Workgroup Working Sessions (Subcommittee on Populations has requested 3 hours; 21st century/NHII have requested 2-3 hours)
3:45 p.m. Planning for November 27, 2000 Executive Subcommittee meeting (1:00 - 5:00 p.m. HHH)
  • NCVHS Strategic Plan
  • 50th Anniversary Symposium Summary
  • 50-year history (synthesis)
  • Future meeting agendas
  • February 21-22, 2001
  • June 27-28, 2001
  • September 20-21, 2001
  • November 15-16, 2001
Dr. Lumpkin
4:15 p.m. Considering a unified approach to surveying school-age children Dr. Lumpkin
4:30 p.m. Adjourn

October 25, 2000