Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; American Health Information Community Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Meeting, 40521-40522 [06-6257]

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TriCentury Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Nine Tribes Bancshares, Inc., and The Bank of Quapaw, Quapaw, Oklahoma. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 12, 2006. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. E6–11223 Filed 7–14–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; American Health Information Community Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Meeting ACTION: Announcement of meeting SUMMARY: This notice announces the seventh meeting of the American Health Information Community (‘‘Community’’) Consumer Empowerment Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App.). DATES: July 27, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Place: Hubert H. Humphrey building (200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201), Conference Room 800 (you will need a photo ID to enter a Federal building). Status: Open. Purpose: at this meeting, the Community Consumer Empowerment Workgroup will receive information on personal health records and related matters. The meeting will be conducted in hearing format, in which the Workgroup will gather information about personal health records’ (PHRs) functions, features, current usage, interoperability capabilities, and importance to health care. The Workgroup will invite representatives who can provide information about these matters. The format for the meeting will include multiple invited panels and time for questions and discussion. The meeting will include a time period during which members of the public may deliver brief (3 minutes or less) oral public comment. To be included on the public comment PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 40521 portion of the agenda, please contact Vernette Roberts at (202) 205–8550, by e-mail at Venette.Roberts@hhs.gov or postal address at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), 330 C Street, SW., Suite 4090, Washington, DC 20201. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public input, in the form of written testimony, is sought on the following issues: • What is needed to increase consumer awareness and engagement in Personal Health Records (PHRs)? • What are the most valuable features and functions of a PHR from the patient perspective? Please summarize the real world experience or evidence to support this part of the testimony. • Would a minimum set of PHR elements ensure that consumers have the features and options most important to them when choosing a PHR? • Who should identify the most important elements of a PHR? • If applicable to your testimony, please comment on how health and HIT literacy needs should be addressed through PHRs. • How can interoperability be achieved between PHRs and electronic health records (EHRs)? Please also comment on when this could be accomplished. • How can interoperability be achieved between PHRs and all of the providers from whom the patient receives health care services? Please also comment on when this could be accomplished. • Should the market be left alone for innovation or could vendors compete around a minimum criteria set for PHRs? • If you think certification is necessary for privacy and security, interoperability or a minimum set of functionality, is the timing important and is there a sense of urgency given the diversity, complexity and mobility of today’s population and the demand for availability of PHRs at the point of care? Persons wishing to submit written testimony only (which should not exceed five double-spaced typewritten pages) should endeavor to submit it by July 27, 2006. Unfilled slots for oral testimony will be filled on the day of the meeting as time permits. Please consult Ms. Roberts for further information about these arrangements. Further information about the Community’s Consumer Empowerment Workgroup may be found at: https:// www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ ce_main.html. If you have special needs for the meeting, please contact (202) 690–7151. E:\FR\FM\17JYN1.SGM 17JYN1 40522 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 136 / Monday, July 17, 2006 / Notices The meeting will be available via Web cast at https://www.eventcenterlive.com/ cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION Dated: July 11, 2006. Judith Sparrow, Director, American Health Information Community, Office of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. [FR Doc. 06–6257 Filed 7–14–06; 8:45 am] National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting Draft Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Policy Statement on Affordable Housing and Historic Preservation 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) Executive Subcommittee. Time and Date: July 25, 2006, 9 a.m.– 4:30 p.m. Place: Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1001 14th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. Status: Open. Purpose: The Executive Subcommittee will review issues from the Full Committee Retreat and strategize next steps for the Committee For Further Information Contact: 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: https://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. 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), Ad Hoc Workgroup on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Time and Date: July 26, 2006—8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 325, Washington, DC 20201. Status: Open. Purpose: The Workgroup will hear public testimony related to functional requirements for a nationwide health information network and to discuss next steps in preparing a preliminary, minimal but inclusive set of functional requirements. For Further Information Contact: 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 page of the HHS Web site: https://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 10, 2006. James Scanlon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. [FR Doc. 06–6255 Filed 7–14–06; 8:45 am] Dated: July 10, 2006. James Scanlon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. [FR Doc. 06–6256 Filed 7–14–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4151–05–M BILLING CODE 4151–04–M BILLING CODE 4150–24–M DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES rwilkins on PROD1PC63 with NOTICES National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:41 Jul 14, 2006 Jkt 208001 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. ACTION: Notice of Intent to Issue Policy Statement on Affordable Housing and Historic Preservation. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is revisiting its ‘‘Policy Statement on Affordable Housing and Historic Preservation,’’ adopted in 1995 (1995 Policy). A Task Force composed of ACHP members has drafted a revised policy, and invites your views and comments. The Task Force will use your comments to finalize the draft policy before presenting it to the full ACHP membership for consideration and possible adoption. DATES: Submit comments on or before August 16, 2006. ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this proposed program comment to Don Klima, Director, Office of Federal Agency Programs, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 809, Washington, DC 20004. Fax 202–606– 8672. You may submit electronic comments to affordablehousing@achp.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don Klima, (202) 606–8505. 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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 136 (Monday, July 17, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40521-40522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6257]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology; American Health Information Community Consumer Empowerment 
Workgroup Meeting

ACTION: Announcement of meeting

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the seventh meeting of the American 
Health Information Community (``Community'') Consumer Empowerment 
Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 
L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

DATES: July 27, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey building (200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20201), Conference Room 800 (you will need a photo ID to 
enter a Federal building).
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: at this meeting, the Community Consumer Empowerment 
Workgroup will receive information on personal health records and 
related matters.
    The meeting will be conducted in hearing format, in which the 
Workgroup will gather information about personal health records' (PHRs) 
functions, features, current usage, interoperability capabilities, and 
importance to health care. The Workgroup will invite representatives 
who can provide information about these matters. The format for the 
meeting will include multiple invited panels and time for questions and 
discussion. The meeting will include a time period during which members 
of the public may deliver brief (3 minutes or less) oral public 
comment. To be included on the public comment portion of the agenda, 
please contact Vernette Roberts at (202) 205-8550, by e-mail at 
Venette.Roberts@hhs.gov or postal address at the Office of the National 
Coordinator (ONC), 330 C Street, SW., Suite 4090, Washington, DC 20201.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public input, in the form of written 
testimony, is sought on the following issues:
     What is needed to increase consumer awareness and 
engagement in Personal Health Records (PHRs)?
     What are the most valuable features and functions of a PHR 
from the patient perspective? Please summarize the real world 
experience or evidence to support this part of the testimony.
     Would a minimum set of PHR elements ensure that consumers 
have the features and options most important to them when choosing a 
PHR?
     Who should identify the most important elements of a PHR?
     If applicable to your testimony, please comment on how 
health and HIT literacy needs should be addressed through PHRs.
     How can interoperability be achieved between PHRs and 
electronic health records (EHRs)? Please also comment on when this 
could be accomplished.
     How can interoperability be achieved between PHRs and all 
of the providers from whom the patient receives health care services? 
Please also comment on when this could be accomplished.
     Should the market be left alone for innovation or could 
vendors compete around a minimum criteria set for PHRs?
     If you think certification is necessary for privacy and 
security, interoperability or a minimum set of functionality, is the 
timing important and is there a sense of urgency given the diversity, 
complexity and mobility of today's population and the demand for 
availability of PHRs at the point of care?
    Persons wishing to submit written testimony only (which should not 
exceed five double-spaced typewritten pages) should endeavor to submit 
it by July 27, 2006. Unfilled slots for oral testimony will be filled 
on the day of the meeting as time permits. Please consult Ms. Roberts 
for further information about these arrangements.
    Further information about the Community's Consumer Empowerment 
Workgroup may be found at: https://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/ce_
main.html.
    If you have special needs for the meeting, please contact (202) 
690-7151.

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    The meeting will be available via Web cast at https://
www.eventcenterlive.com/cfmx/ec/login/login1.cfm?BID=67.

    Dated: July 11, 2006.
Judith Sparrow,
Director, American Health Information Community, Office of Programs and 
Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 06-6257 Filed 7-14-06; 8:45 am]
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