03-19265. 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), Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure.

Time and Date: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; August 7, 2003.

Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: The purpose of the meeting is to review recent developments related to the national health information infrastructure, review a draft recommendation about HHS participation in advanced research and development on the national information infrastructure (Internet2, etc.) and develop the workgroup's work plan related to the personal health dimension.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained from Mary Jo Deering, Lead Staff Person for the NCVHS Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health and Science, DHHS, Room 738G, Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201, telephone [phone], or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 2413, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, telephone [phone]. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/​,, where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.

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Dated: July 15, 2003.

James Scanlon,

Acting Director, Office of Science and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.