[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 42997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16372]


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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), 
Workgroup on the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII).
    Time and Date: 8 a.m.-4:15 p.m.; July 23, 2004.
    Place: Washington Convention Center, Room 146A, B, & C, 801 
Mount Vernon Place, NW., Washington, DC 20002.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Workgroup will hear testimony from invited experts 
on National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) opportunities, 
including recommendations, in the key areas: personal health, 
governance, incentives, standards and architecture, confidentiality, 
ethics, privacy, access, measuring progress, population health, and 
clinical research. The morning session will conclude with the 
closing remarks from the HHS NHII conference ``2004 Cornerstones for 
Electronic Healthcare.'' The afternoon session will consist of 
discussion between the Workgroup and the speakers.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Mary Jo Deering Ph.D., Lead 
Staff Person for the NCVHS Workgroup on the National Health 
Information Infrastructure, NCI Center for Strategic Dissemination 
and NCI Center for Bioinformatics, National Cancer Institute, 
National Institutes of Health, 6116 Executive Boulevard--Room 4087, 
Rockville, MD, 20852, telephone (301) 594-8193, or 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 age of the HHS 
Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where an agenda for the meeting 
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: July 7, 2004.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 04-16372 Filed 7-16-04; 8:45 am]
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