[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 47813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-7024]


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DEPARTMENT OF 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 (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) 
meeting jointly with the Board of Scientific Counselors of the 
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
    Time and Date: September 13, 2006 9 a.m.-3:50 p.m., September 
14, 2006 9 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Room 705A, Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: At this meeting the Committee will hear presentations 
and hold discussions on several health data policy topics. On the 
morning of the first day the Committee will hear updates and status 
reports from the Department of various topics including activities 
of the HHS Data Council. They will review the full Committee retreat 
and the Executive Subcommittee meeting. They will discuss 
Subcommittee products. This discussion will continue in the 
afternoon followed by an update from the Healthcare Information 
Technology Standards panel.
    On the morning of the second day the Committee will hear an 
update of Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's quality 
indicator project, followed by reports from the NCVHS Subcommittees 
and Work Groups. This will be followed by the convening of the joint 
meeting with the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National 
Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control and 
Prevention. The focus of the joint meeting will be on areas of 
common interests including new implications of confidentiality 
requirements in vital records for natality and mortality, re-
engineering the vital statistics system and role of health 
information technology. This will be followed by a discussion of the 
process for future collaborations.
    The times shown above are for the full Committee meeting. 
Subcommittee breakout sessions are scheduled for late in the 
afternoon of the first day and in the morning prior to the full 
Committee meeting on the second day. Agendas for these breakout 
sessions will be posted on the NCVHS Web site (URL below) when 
available.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Marjorie S. Greenberg, 
Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, 
Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 
2402, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 458-4245. 
Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of HHS Web 
site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further information including 
an agenda will be posted when available.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the 
CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: August 11, 2006.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OSDP), Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 06-7024 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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