[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 241 (Thursday, December 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70262-70263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32554]
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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).
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TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., December 20, 1999.
PLACE: Conference Call Participants Dial-in Number: 1-888-296-1938,
Participants Code: 555668.
STATUS: Open.
PURPOSE: The NCVHS is the statutory public advisory body to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services on health data, privacy, and
health information policy. During this conference call, the Committee
will discuss its proposed comments on the Notice of Proposed Rule
Making (NPRM) for Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable
Health Information, recently released by HHS as required by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Notice: This conference call is open to the public using the
participants' dial-in telephone number and participants' code, but
access may be limited by the number of available telephone lines.
CONTACT PERSONS FOR MORE INFORMA- TION: Substantive program information
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may
be obtained from James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff Director, HHS,
ASPE, Room 440D, Hubert H. 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) 458-4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS
home page of the HHS website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further
information will be posted when available.
Dated: December 9, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 99-32554 Filed 12-15-99; 8:45 am]
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