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FINAL AGENDA

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

SUBCOMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND SECURITY

July 20-21, 1998

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James R. Thompson Center, Room 9-040
100 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL

Hearings on the Unique Health Identifier for Individuals

THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Materials provided in advance to the speakers to guide their testimony and presentations:

Monday, July 20, 1998
Transcript | Minutes
10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
Introductions 		John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., Chair of the Subcommittee on Standards and Security
Kathleen Frawley, J.D., M.S., R.R.A., Chair of the Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality
10:15 a.m. Panel 1a: Should we have a unique individual identifier for health care and what are the alternatives for such an identifier? Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H., Mayo Foundation (PowerPoint presentation)
Shelly Ebbert, MPH, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
11:30 a.m. Break
12:00 p.m. Panel 2a: What are the cost-benefit implications of a unique individual identifier? George Arges, American Hospital Association and WEDI
John Schalk, Gallagher Benefit Administrators
Steve Grimshaw, GTE
12:55 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Panel 3a: Assuming an identifier must be chosen, what is the best identifier to use? Barry Hieb, M.D., ASTM
James Gabler, Healthdyne Information Enterprises (HIE) and Co-chair, HL7 Master Patient Index Mediator SIG
Barbara Rudolph, Ph.D.,Office of Health Care Information, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
3:50 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. Panel 4a: Allowable uses of a unique health identifier and safeguards to protect it. Richard M. Peters, Jr., M.D., iTRUST
Mary Kratz, MT(ASCP), Univ. Michigan Health System and CORBAmed
Richard W. Landen, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
5:45 p.m. Adjourn
Tuesday, July 21, 1998
Transcript
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
9:15 a.m. Panel 4b: Allowable uses of a unique health identifier and safeguards to protect it. Twila Brase, R.N., Citizens for Choice in Health Care
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Panel 3b: Assuming an identifier must be chosen, what is the best identifier to use? Soloman I. Appavu, M.S., Cook County Bureau of Health Services
Daryl Evans, Government Employees Hospital Association
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Panel 2b: What are the cost-benefit implications of a unique individual identifier? David Miller, United HealthCare
Steven M. Seweryn, M.P.H., Cook County Department of Public Health
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Panel 1b: Should we have a unique individual identifier for health care and what are the alternatives for such an identifier? Diane L. Hillbrant, R.Ph., J.D., Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
John Quinn, Ernst & Young LLP and Chair, HL7 Technical Committee
Ted Cooper, M.D.,Kaiser Permanente and CPRI
3:15 p.m. Panel 1b (continued) Shannah Koss, M.P.P., IBM
4:00 p.m. Comments from the audience
4:20 p.m. Adjourn

Last update 3/12/99