[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 29997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14478]
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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: 9:00 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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