[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 128 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17785]
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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,
Subcommittee on Populations.
Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., July 14, 1998; 9:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m., July 15, 1998.
Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
Status: Open.
Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations will hold a two-day
public meeting to assess the health data needs in the Pacific
insular areas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The Subcommittee
will examine the relations between these areas and the Federal
government with regard to the current status of health data
collection, analysis, and utilization, including the adequacy of
available health data and statistics, as well as health information
systems for assessing population health needs and health service
requirements, examining the results of Federal public health
spending, and documenting Healthy People objectives. The
Subcommittee intends to examine impediments to improving health data
collection and use in Pacific insular areas, Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands; learn about any special considerations involving
privacy and confidentiality; identify the most critical areas where
health data gathering capabilities are undeveloped but essential;
and develop recommendations for improving health information
systems. Participants are expected to include representatives from
the Pacific insular areas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as
well as representatives from HHS agencies which administer programs
in these areas, and other invited federal officials.
For Further Information Contact: Substantive information about
the Committee as well as a roster of Committee members may be
obtained from 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, MD 20782, telephone 301/
436-7050. Additional information about the full Committee is
available on the NCVHS website, where the tentative agenda for the
Subcommittee meeting will also be posted when available: http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs
Dated: June 26, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-17785 Filed 7-2-98; 8:45 am]
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