[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 211 (Thursday, October 31, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65317-65318]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-25835]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting 
Standards Subcommittee

    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) 
Subcommittee on Standards.
    Time and Date: November 12, 2013 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST.
    Place: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National 
Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Auditorium B & C, 
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, (301) 458-4524.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is to gather industry input 
on the state of health data standards used by public health and 
population health programs, and the scope of the meeting will 
include standards used for electronic exchange of information 
between public health and external stakeholders. This includes 
standards for data coding, document-type standards, message content, 
structure and format standards, transport, vocabulary and 
terminology, and data management standards across various public 
health functions and activities including but not limited to vital 
statistics, bio-surveillance, syndromic surveillance, screening, 
immunizations, public health laboratory, environmental health, and 
public health/population health analytics. Coding and classification 
systems for certain core public health data elements will be 
included.

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    The meeting will include an overview of where and how health 
data standards are used across public health functions, and the 
current status of public health data standards. The hearing will 
provide an opportunity for the Standards Subcommittee to hear from 
individuals representing public health data standards organizations, 
public health agencies, standards developers, and software/
application vendors. Important work has been done in standard 
development organizations to advance the development of public 
health standards, and these developments will be highlighted in the 
discussion.
    In addition, the Subcommittees on Population Health and Privacy, 
Confidentiality and Security will explore the need for convening a 
future hearing to focus on important considerations for standardized 
definitions of public health variables, privacy and security, 
population health management, and community health data, building on 
recent work by the Committee on health information standardization 
and community health data initiatives.
    Contact Person for More Information: 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 or 
Kamahanahokulani Farrar, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Office of E-Health Standards and Services, 7500 Security Boulevard, 
Baltimore, Maryland 21244, telephone (410) 786-6711. Program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members are 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.
    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 22, 2013.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (Science and 
Data Policy), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2013-25835 Filed 10-30-13; 8:45 am]
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