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GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090–0262]
General Services Administration
Acquisition Regulation; Information
Collection; Identification of Products
With Environmental Attributes
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Acquisition
Officer, GSA.
ACTION: Notice of request for comments
regarding a revision to an existing OMB
clearance.
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the General Services
Administration will be submitting to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request to revise and approve
an extension of a currently approved
information collection requirement
regarding identification of products
with environmental attributes. The
clearance currently expires on April 30,
2009.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary and whether it
will have practical utility; whether our
estimate of the public burden of this
collection of information is accurate and
based on valid assumptions and
methodology; and ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
DATES: Submit comments on or before:
February 9, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Warren Blankenship, Procurement
Analyst, Contract Policy Division, at
telephone (202) 501–1900 or via e-mail
to warren.blankenship@gsa.gov.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding
this burden estimate or any other aspect
of this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing this
burden to the Regulatory Secretariat
(VPR), General Services Administration,
Room 4041, 1800 F Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20405. Please cite OMB
Control No. 3090–0262, Identification of
Products with Environmental
Attributes, in all correspondence.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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A. Purpose
General Services Administration
(GSA) requires contractors submitting
Multiple Award Schedule Contracts to
identify in their GSA price lists those
products that they market commercially
that have environmental attributes. The
identification of these products will
enable Federal agencies to maximize the
use of these products to meet the
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B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents 18,000.:
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 18,000.
Hours per Response: 5.
Total Burden Hours: 90,000.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from
the General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat (VPR), 1800 F
Street, NW., Room 4041, Washington,
DC 20405, telephone (202) 501–4755.
Please cite OMB Control No. 3090–0262,
Identification of Products with
Environmental Attributes, in all
correspondence.
Dated: November 19, 2008.
Rhonda Cundiff,
Acting Director, Office of Acquisition Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Health Care Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Health Care
Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to allow the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Overcoming Barriers to Expanded
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Participation in Indiana.’’ In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ
invites the public to comment on this
proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on June 10th, 2008 and allowed
60 days for public comment. No
comments were received. The purpose
of this notice is to allow an additional
30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by January 8, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(Attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by email at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
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Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘Overcoming Barriers to Expanded
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Participation in Indiana.’’
AHRQ, through its contractor, the
Regenstrief Institute at Indiana
University, proposes to assess the
barriers to participation in health
information exchange (HIE) in Indiana.
The Regenstrief Institute will use its
experience to date working with a
variety of organizations to establish
specific barriers to engagement in HIE
cited by stakeholders, define the barriers
and evaluate them.
The Regenstrief Institute will develop
and implement a questionnaire and
survey process to identify barriers that
may exist throughout the State of
Indiana to participation in the Indiana
Network of Patient Care (INPC). The
INPC is a local health information
infrastructure that includes information
from five major hospital systems (fifteen
separate hospitals), the county and State
public health departments, and Indiana
Medicaid and RxHub. The INPC began
operation seven years ago and is one of
the first examples of a local health
information infrastructure.
This research will elicit and aggregate
feedback from large and small physician
groups, as well as hospitals, throughout
the State of Indiana. The goal is to
identify the gaps in understanding,
barriers and disconnects that may exist
with providers’ adoption of, and
membership in, the INPC. The
relationship between the stakeholders
involved in the Indiana HIE is governed
by a contract between the participants.
The Regenstrief Institute, acting on
behalf of the participants, created and
operates the exchange, including
serving as the custodian of the data.
The Regenstrief Institute will survey
three key stakeholder groups in the
State of Indiana: Small hospitals, small
physician practices (less than 5
providers) and large physician practices
(greater than 20 providers) to identify
barriers for each of these groups to
participate in a HIE in general, and
specifically the INPC. It is difficult to
predict the barriers that will be
identified, but based on their experience
to date, anecdotal evidence suggests that
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the cost of interfaces and the
management attention needed to
participate will be the two major
barriers. The findings will be used to
create approaches to engage specific
entities to participate in their statewide
HIE.
This project is being conducted
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory mandates
to conduct and support research,
evaluations and initiatives to advance
information systems for health care
improvement (42 U.S.C. 299b–3) and to
promote innovations in evidence-based
health care practices and technologies
by conducting and supporting research
on the development, diffusion, and use
of health care technology (42 U.S.C.
299b–5(a)(1)). This project is also being
conducted pursuant to a modification to
an earlier AHRQ request for proposals
entitled ‘‘State and Regional
Demonstrations in Health Information
Technology’’ (issued under contract
290–04–0015).
Method of Collection
To ease the burden on the
participating health care providers a
Web-based questionnaire will be used.
An initial screener interview will be
conducted by telephone to describe the
purpose of the survey and the survey
process and to request the hospital’s or
physician practice’s participation in the
survey. After a hospital or practice
agrees to participate, a communication
packet will be sent by e-mail to the
contact person identified during the
telephone screening. The
communication packet includes: (a) An
HIE description and definition; (b)
description of the INPC, its mission,
overall direction, and other relevant
background information; and (c)
purpose for the contact, estimated time
required to complete the Web-based
questionnaire and a link to the
questionnaire.
Responses to the survey are expected
from about 20 hospitals and 40
physician practices of each size. Two to
three individuals from each hospital
will be asked to respond to the
questionnaire. For physician practices,
one person from each practice will be
asked to respond: A practice manager,
director of technology, or person
occupying a similar role.
Following the completion of the Webbased questionnaire, respondents will
be re-contacted by telephone for a
follow-up interview. The purpose of the
follow-up interview is to determine the
steps necessary to overcome the barriers
to HIE identified in the Web-based
questionnaire. A structured interview
guide has been developed with standard
questions for the telephone follow-up.
The data will be aggregated, analyzed
and a final report will be prepared that
focuses on the following major topic
areas:
a. General perceptions on electronic
sharing of health information;
b. The extent to which electronic
health information sharing exists in the
contact’s current environment;
c. Barriers to the adoption and
implementation of electronic health
information sharing and, specifically,
INPC; and
d. Recommendations for addressing
and resolving issues preventing the
adoption of HIE (general as well as
entity-specific recommendations).
This information will assist AHRQ’s
mission to advance ‘‘the creation of
effective linkages between various
sources of health information, including
the development of information
networks.’’ 42 U.S.C. 299b–3(a)(3). A
seventy-five percent (75%) response rate
is anticipated.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in this
research. A screener interview will be
completed once by each of the 20
hospitals and 80 physician practices
and is expected to require about 5
minutes to complete. The Web-based
questionnaire will be completed by an
average of 3 persons from each of the 20
hospitals and by one person from each
of the 80 physician practices and will
take about 10 minutes to complete. The
telephone follow-up interview will be
conducted with each person that
completed the Web-based questionnaire
and is expected to last about 15
minutes. The total burden hours for the
participating health care providers is
estimated to be 66 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden to the
responding health care providers based
on their time to participate in this
research. The total cost burden is
estimated to be $3,074.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Screener ..........................................................................................................
Web-based Questionnaire ...............................................................................
Telephone Follow-up Interview ........................................................................
100
100
100
1
1.4
1.4
5/60
10/60
15/60
8
23
35
Total ..........................................................................................................
300
na
na
66
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
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Screener ..........................................................................................................
Web-based Questionnaire ...............................................................................
Telephone Follow-up Interview ........................................................................
100
100
100
8
23
35
$46.58
46.58
46.58
$373
1,071
1,630
Total ..........................................................................................................
300
66
na
3,074
* Based upon the average of the ‘‘Wage estimates, mean hourly’’ for the following occupation codes and titles: 11–101/Chief executives; 13–
0000/Business and financial operations occupations; 15–1071/Network and computer systems administrators; 29–1062/Family and general practitioners; 11–9111/Medical and health services managers, from the ‘‘May 2007 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Indiana;
Occupational Employment Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_in.htm.’’
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Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
This project will last for one year and
is estimated to cost the government
$120,000. The scope of work includes
the development of the survey
instruments and data collection
($90,000), and data analysis ($10,000) to
establish specific barriers to HIE
participation cited by stakeholders and
to define and evaluate them ($20,000).
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
functions of AHRQ health care research
and health care information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
on the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: December 1, 2008.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Quality
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) allow the proposed
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information collection project:
‘‘Establishing Benchmarks for the
Medical Office Survey on Patient
Safety.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ invites the public
to comment on this proposed
information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on September 19th, 2008 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
One comment was received. This notice
differs from the previous notice in that
the number of respondents was
increased by 150 respondents and the
burden hours were reduced by 1,488
hours. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by January 8, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQs desk officer) or by email at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘Establishing Benchmarks for the
Medical Office Survey on Patient
Safety’’
The ambulatory Medical Office
Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS), an
adapted version of AHRQ’s Hospital
Survey on Patient Safety Culture
(HSOPSC), was developed in 2005 to
measure specific components of patient
safety culture in the ambulatory setting.
A pilot study (OMB #0935–0131)
assessed and refined the psychometric
properties of specific survey items, and
a final version of SOPS is now ready for
public dissemination. However, in order
for the survey to be most useful to
ambulatory medical offices in
identifying areas of relative strength and
weakness in patient safety culture,
reliable benchmarks to which a
practice’s responses can be compared
need to be established.
AHRQ has determined, through
discussions with potential end-users of
SOPS, including leaders of physician
and other provider groups, that an
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ambulatory practice is unlikely to have
confidence in SOPS benchmarks unless
the benchmarking data are based on
responses derived from offices with
similar characteristics. Office
characteristics thought to have a
potential effect on SOPS responses
include practice size, provider specialty
mix, and use of electronic information
technology. A separate survey to collect
information about these practice
characteristics has been developed and
was tested and refined as part of the
pilot study.
In order to establish SOPS
benchmarks that can be tailored with
respect to specific practice-related
characteristics, survey responses from a
large sample of practices stratified by
these characteristics are required. AHRQ
therefore intends to recruit and
administer SOPS to ambulatory medical
offices that have been selected on the
basis of practice characteristics. In
addition, AHRQ intends to collect from
these practices evaluative information
about administrative barriers and
facilitators to survey participation as
well as a description of how the office
used (or plans to use) the survey results
to enhance patient safety culture. These
data will inform future efforts by AHRQ
to maximize the use of SOPS and the
utility/value of survey results to
ambulatory practices across the country.
This project is being conducted
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory mandates
to (1) promote health care quality
improvement by conducting and
supporting research that develops and
presents scientific evidence regarding
all aspects of health care, including
methods for measuring quality and
strategies for improving quality (42
U.S.C. 299(b)(1)(F)) and (2) conduct and
support research on health care and on
systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to
quality measurement and improvement
(42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(2)).
Methods of Collection
A purposive sample of 400 outpatient
medical offices will be identified and
recruited. The goal is for the sample to
be proportionately distributed with
regard to three practice characteristics:
Office size (number of physicians and
employed staff); provider specialty mix
(single- vs multi-specialty); and extent
to which electronic health information
tools are used. All physicians and
employed staff in the practices will be
asked to complete the SOPS.
Additionally, one office manager for the
practice will be asked to complete the
Office Characteristics Survey. Since
higher response rates have been
demonstrated when paper-based
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to allow the proposed information
collection project: ``Overcoming Barriers to Expanded Health
Information Exchange (HIE) Participation in Indiana.'' In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ
invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on June 10th, 2008 and allowed 60 days for public
comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by January 8, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (Attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
e-mail at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ's desk
officer).
Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be
obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``Overcoming Barriers to Expanded Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Participation in Indiana.''
AHRQ, through its contractor, the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana
University, proposes to assess the barriers to participation in health
information exchange (HIE) in Indiana. The Regenstrief Institute will
use its experience to date working with a variety of organizations to
establish specific barriers to engagement in HIE cited by stakeholders,
define the barriers and evaluate them.
The Regenstrief Institute will develop and implement a
questionnaire and survey process to identify barriers that may exist
throughout the State of Indiana to participation in the Indiana Network
of Patient Care (INPC). The INPC is a local health information
infrastructure that includes information from five major hospital
systems (fifteen separate hospitals), the county and State public
health departments, and Indiana Medicaid and RxHub. The INPC began
operation seven years ago and is one of the first examples of a local
health information infrastructure.
This research will elicit and aggregate feedback from large and
small physician groups, as well as hospitals, throughout the State of
Indiana. The goal is to identify the gaps in understanding, barriers
and disconnects that may exist with providers' adoption of, and
membership in, the INPC. The relationship between the stakeholders
involved in the Indiana HIE is governed by a contract between the
participants. The Regenstrief Institute, acting on behalf of the
participants, created and operates the exchange, including serving as
the custodian of the data.
The Regenstrief Institute will survey three key stakeholder groups
in the State of Indiana: Small hospitals, small physician practices
(less than 5 providers) and large physician practices (greater than 20
providers) to identify barriers for each of these groups to participate
in a HIE in general, and specifically the INPC. It is difficult to
predict the barriers that will be identified, but based on their
experience to date, anecdotal evidence suggests that
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the cost of interfaces and the management attention needed to
participate will be the two major barriers. The findings will be used
to create approaches to engage specific entities to participate in
their statewide HIE.
This project is being conducted pursuant to AHRQ's statutory
mandates to conduct and support research, evaluations and initiatives
to advance information systems for health care improvement (42 U.S.C.
299b-3) and to promote innovations in evidence-based health care
practices and technologies by conducting and supporting research on the
development, diffusion, and use of health care technology (42 U.S.C.
299b-5(a)(1)). This project is also being conducted pursuant to a
modification to an earlier AHRQ request for proposals entitled ``State
and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology'' (issued
under contract 290-04-0015).
Method of Collection
To ease the burden on the participating health care providers a
Web-based questionnaire will be used. An initial screener interview
will be conducted by telephone to describe the purpose of the survey
and the survey process and to request the hospital's or physician
practice's participation in the survey. After a hospital or practice
agrees to participate, a communication packet will be sent by e-mail to
the contact person identified during the telephone screening. The
communication packet includes: (a) An HIE description and definition;
(b) description of the INPC, its mission, overall direction, and other
relevant background information; and (c) purpose for the contact,
estimated time required to complete the Web-based questionnaire and a
link to the questionnaire.
Responses to the survey are expected from about 20 hospitals and 40
physician practices of each size. Two to three individuals from each
hospital will be asked to respond to the questionnaire. For physician
practices, one person from each practice will be asked to respond: A
practice manager, director of technology, or person occupying a similar
role.
Following the completion of the Web-based questionnaire,
respondents will be re-contacted by telephone for a follow-up
interview. The purpose of the follow-up interview is to determine the
steps necessary to overcome the barriers to HIE identified in the Web-
based questionnaire. A structured interview guide has been developed
with standard questions for the telephone follow-up.
The data will be aggregated, analyzed and a final report will be
prepared that focuses on the following major topic areas:
a. General perceptions on electronic sharing of health information;
b. The extent to which electronic health information sharing exists
in the contact's current environment;
c. Barriers to the adoption and implementation of electronic health
information sharing and, specifically, INPC; and
d. Recommendations for addressing and resolving issues preventing
the adoption of HIE (general as well as entity-specific
recommendations).
This information will assist AHRQ's mission to advance ``the
creation of effective linkages between various sources of health
information, including the development of information networks.'' 42
U.S.C. 299b-3(a)(3). A seventy-five percent (75%) response rate is
anticipated.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in this research. A screener interview
will be completed once by each of the 20 hospitals and 80 physician
practices and is expected to require about 5 minutes to complete. The
Web-based questionnaire will be completed by an average of 3 persons
from each of the 20 hospitals and by one person from each of the 80
physician practices and will take about 10 minutes to complete. The
telephone follow-up interview will be conducted with each person that
completed the Web-based questionnaire and is expected to last about 15
minutes. The total burden hours for the participating health care
providers is estimated to be 66 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden to the
responding health care providers based on their time to participate in
this research. The total cost burden is estimated to be $3,074.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Screener........................................ 100 1 5/60 8
Web-based Questionnaire......................... 100 1.4 10/60 23
Telephone Follow-up Interview................... 100 1.4 15/60 35
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 300 na na 66
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Form name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Screener........................................ 100 8 $46.58 $373
Web-based Questionnaire......................... 100 23 46.58 1,071
Telephone Follow-up Interview................... 100 35 46.58 1,630
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 300 66 na 3,074
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* Based upon the average of the ``Wage estimates, mean hourly'' for the following occupation codes and titles:
11-101/Chief executives; 13-0000/Business and financial operations occupations; 15-1071/Network and computer
systems administrators; 29-1062/Family and general practitioners; 11-9111/Medical and health services
managers, from the ``May 2007 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Indiana; Occupational
Employment Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
oes_in.htm.''
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Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
This project will last for one year and is estimated to cost the
government $120,000. The scope of work includes the development of the
survey instruments and data collection ($90,000), and data analysis
($10,000) to establish specific barriers to HIE participation cited by
stakeholders and to define and evaluate them ($20,000).
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above cited Paperwork Reduction Act
legislation, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
functions of AHRQ health care research and health care information
dissemination functions, including whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden
(including hours and costs) of the proposed collection(s) of
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity on
the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: December 1, 2008.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E8-28901 Filed 12-8-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160-90-M
