[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72668-72669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33621]
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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)
Subcommittee on Populations.
Times and Dates: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., January 24, 2000; 10 a.m.-4
p.m., January 25, 2000
Place: Conference Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201.
Status: Open.
Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations will meet on January
24-25, 2000 to discuss and assess the feasibility of recording,
evaluating and analyzing measures of functional status on health
records, such as enrollment in health plans, records of medical
encounters, and standardized attachments to such records. Several
panels of experts will explore issues related to the collection of
information on functional status in administrative records and data
collection systems, and will discuss data collection and measurement
efforts necessary to address the issue effectively. This is the
first of several public meetings being planned by the Subcommittee
to discuss this topic.
All topics are tentative and subject to change. Prior to the
meeting, please check the NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda
will be posted when available.
Contact Person for More Information: Substantive information as
well as summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee
members may be obtained by
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visiting the NCVHS website (http://ncvhs.hhs.gov)) where an agenda
for the meeting will be posted when available.
Additional information may be obtained by calling Carolyn Rimes,
Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Subcommittee on Populations, Office
of Research and Demonstrations, Health Care Financing
Administration, MS-C-13-01, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,
Maryland, 21244-1850, telephone (410) 786-6620; or Marjorie S.
Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100,
Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland
20782, telephone (301) 458-4245.
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: December 21, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 99-33621 Filed 12-27-99; 8:45 am]
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