[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 202 (Thursday, October 20, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61145-61146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20990]


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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 (HHS) announces the following advisory 
committee meeting.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
    Time and Date: November 16, 2005, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. November 17, 
2005, 10 a.m.-2 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 on various topics including activities of the HHS 
Data Council, and updates on HIPAA implementation including data 
standards, the E-Prescribing Final Rule, Privacy Rule compliance, an 
the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for health claims attachments. They 
will also hear an update on activities of the Office of the National 
Coordinator for Health Information Technology. In the afternoon the 
Committee will be updated on the status of activities being conducted 
by the Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality on the National 
health Information Network, and hear a presentation on secondary uses 
of clinical data.
    On the morning of the second day the Committee will hear a 
presentation on health statistics and the national health information 
infrastructure and a discussion of data release and confidentiality 
issues led by a representative of the National Center for Health 
Statistics' Board of Scientific Counselors. In the afternoon, there 
will be reports from the Subcommittees and a discussion of agendas for 
future Committee meetings.
    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 
Disease 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 the HHS Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further information including an agenda will 
be posted when available.

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    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the CDC 
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) as soon 
as possible.

    Dated: October 14, 2005.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OSDP), Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
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