Notice2024-22150
Special Medical Advisory Group, Amended, Notice of Meeting
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Published
September 27, 2024
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 188 (Friday, September 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 79366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22150]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Special Medical Advisory Group, Amended, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. ch. 10, that the Special
Medical Advisory Group (the Committee) will meet on September 25-26,
2024, at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center (Celebration Room), 3801
Miranda Avenue, in Palo Alto, CA. The September meeting sessions will
begin and end as follows:
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Date Time Open session
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September 25, 2024............ 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Yes.
Pacific time (PT).
September 26, 2024............ 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PT..... Yes.
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The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs and the Under Secretary for Health on the care and treatment of
Veterans, and other matters pertinent to the Veterans Health
Administration.
On September 25, 2024, the agenda for the meeting will include
discussions on strategies for increasing access, community care
program, challenges to growth, digital health overview, tele-urgent and
emergent care, artificial intelligence, efforts to reduce
administrative burdens for providers, nursing infrastructure,
electronic health record management deployment and behavioral and
mental health care, and strategy for long-COVID management.
The Committee is revising its September meeting agenda to receive
additional information and data. On September 26th, 9 a.m. PT, the
Committee will call the meeting to order and introduce a revised
meeting agenda schedule, which incorporates additional presentations
and discussion open to the public. The Parent Committee meeting will
pause from 9:15 a.m. PT to 1:15 p.m. PT to accommodate its Subcommittee
engagement with local VA medical center leadership for a facility and
campus tour as well as briefing on proprietary information. The Parent
Committee will reopen the meeting for the public from 1:15 p.m. PT to 3
p.m. PT. Meeting participation data and points of contact remain
unchanged.
Members of the Committee may join in person or virtually. The
meeting is open to the public. The public is encouraged to attend
virtually due to seating limitations in the physical meeting space.
Persons can joined by phone at 404-397-1596 (Access code: 28225920144)
and via Webex at: <a href="https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/veteransaffairs/meeting/download/3777e040e97e4d9fbf178572395a9611?siteurl=veteransaffairs&MTID=mbfe409f4d3327b0560086f2af98f0825">https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/veteransaffairs/meeting/download/3777e040e97e4d9fbf178572395a9611?siteurl=veteransaffairs&MTID=mbfe409f4d3327b0560086f2af98f0825</a>. Please contact the point of contact below for
assistance connecting.
Members of the public may also submit written statements in advance
for review by the Committee to: Department of Veterans Affairs, Special
Medical Advisory Group--Office of Under Secretary for Health (10),
Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20420 or by email at: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2573647668646261636a6553440b424a53"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="306671637d717774767f7046511e575f46">[email protected]</span></a>. Comments will be accepted until
close of business on Thursday, September 19, 2024. The meeting will
also include time reserved for live public comment at the end of the
meeting on September 26, 2024. The public comment period will be 30
minutes and each individual commenter will be afforded a maximum of
five minutes to express their comments.
Any member of the public wishing to attend the meeting or seeking
additional information should email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6e0f7e5fbf7f1f2f0f9f6c0d798d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="481e091b05090f0c0e07083e29662f273e">[email protected]</span></a> or call 202-461-
7000.
Dated: September 23, 2024.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-22150 Filed 9-26-24; 8:45 am]
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