200 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. The meeting will focus on a variety of health data policy and privacy issues. Department officials will update the Committee on recent activities of the HHS Data Council and the status of HHS activities in implementing the administrative simplification provision of Pub. The Committee also will be briefed on data issues in the Health Care Financing Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, a recent HHS- supported report from the National Academy of Sciences dealing with data and measurement issues in health performance measurement in the public sector, and Healthy People 2010 data issues. In addition, Subcommittee breakout sessions and reports to the full Committee are planned.
All topics are tentative and subject to change.
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. May 28, 1999. James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy.