Board of Scientific Counselors Program Review

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NCHS Notes 2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention National Center for Health Statistics
2
New DVS Staff

• Delton Atkinson replaces Jim Weed as Deputy
  Director
• Chuck Sirc replaces Donna Glenn as Chief
  Mortality Medical Classification Branch
• Donna Glenn will be responsible for automated
  medical coding systems

3
Recent Meetings

• April 24-25 NCHS Board of Scientific Councilors
• April 30 National Academies Workshop on Vital
  Statistics
• May 7-9 International Symposium on Automated
  Mortality Statistics
• May 13-15 Annual VSCP Meeting
• May 28-29 Expert Meeting of mortality
  forecasting/projections

4
FY08 Budget

• Currently funds to pay through June 2008
• Hope funds will be found for additional months
• Promise Remaining months will be paid in FY09
• Hope FY09 is good to NCHS
• Thanks NAPHSIS for support

5
Contracts

• New 5/10 year contracts to be developed
• Hopefully the contracts will be in place by
  January 2009
• Purchase Orders will continue until contracts in
  place
• No longer fund just a partial year
• Deliverables will be divided into smaller
  entities and priced and funded based on available
  budget

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Contracts

• Data sets will be subdivided into core and non
  core States will be involved in that
  determination
• Possible deliverables fetals, Birth (core),
  Birth (enhanced) Death Demo (core) Death Demo
  (enhanced) Death Medical Linked Birth/Death
  months

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A Commentary It is not all about VSCP Funding

• VSCP funding at some level is needed to pay for
  records however,
• The mechanism of the VSCP contracts will not
  assure improvements in quality and timeliness
• Contracts/Cooperative Agreements are needed to
  meet individual state needs for infrastructure
  (targeted field work, re-engineering, data
  linkage, new items, etc.
• Legislation needed for vitals need to be a
  reportable event and for funding support to
  improve quality and timeliness

8
NAPHSIS Cooperative Agreement

• Funding comes from NDI receipts
• CA is to help States!!!
• Onsite technical assistance to states for
  re-engineering, improving business practices
• Meeting VSCP requirements

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IRTPA Status

• No progress from the last time I talked with you
• Draft regs written are still in HHS
• Doubtful if anything will happen until the next
  Administration