[Federal Register: October 7, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 194)]
[Notices]

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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 (NCVHS), Subcommittee on Standards and Security, Workgroup on Computer-based Patient Records.

Time and Date: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., October 14, 1999; 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., October 15, 1999.

Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose: At this meeting the Work Group will continue to gather information and discuss issues related to the development of standards for electronic medical records. The Working Group will hear from panelists of data quality experts, code set developers and users, and standards users. The Work Group will also review progress on the Government's Computerized Patient Records initiative, develop agendas for future meetings, and discuss its future report to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Notice: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without a government identification card will need to have the guard call for an escort to the meeting.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained from J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 2101 East Jefferson Street, #602, Rockville, MD 20852, phone: 301-594-1483, x1052; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-7050. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http:// aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.

Dated: October 1, 1999.

James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 99-26140 Filed 10-6-99; 8:45 am]

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