[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 211 (Monday, November 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 58741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29197]
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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 a.m.-5:30 p.m., November 12, 1998, 9 a.m.-3
p.m., November 13, 1998.
Place: Conference Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 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 provisions of Pub. L. 104-491, the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Committee
also will be briefed on data needed to support the Initiative to
Eliminate Racial and Ethic Disparities in Health as well as Healthy
People 2010. Presentations are scheduled on the National Academy of
Sciences' new panel study on second generation internet requirements
for health applications, and strategies for obtaining public health
infrastructure data. In addition, 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) 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, 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: October 27, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-29197 Filed 10-30-98; 8:45 am]
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