1. NCHS Notes 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

6. 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

7. 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

9. 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