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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology; HIT
Standards Committee; Notice and
Publication of Committee
Recommendations to the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of committee
recommendations and invitation for
public input.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice publishes
recommendations made by the HIT
Standards Committee (Committee) at its
public meeting on August 20, 2009, and
invites public input on the
recommendations at the Committee’s
next meeting on September 15, 2009.
The Committee is a Federal advisory
committee to the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC).
Name of Committee: HIT Standards
Committee.
General Function of the Committee:
To provide recommendations to the
National Coordinator on standards,
implementation specifications, and
certification criteria for the electronic
exchange and use of health information
for purposes of adoption, consistent
with the implementation of the Federal
Health IT Strategic Plan, and in
accordance with policies developed by
the HIT Policy Committee. Sections
3003(b)(4) and (e) of the Health
Information Technology for Economic
and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
requires ONC to publish the
Committee’s recommendations to the
National Coordinator in the Federal
Register and on ONC’s Web site.
Contact Person: Judith Sparrow,
Office of the National Coordinator, HHS,
330 C Street, SW., Washington, DC
20201, 202–205–4528, Fax: 202–690–
6079, e-mail: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov.
Recommendations: During the August
20, 2009, meeting, the Committee’s
recommendations focused on the
following areas: Clinical Quality,
Clinical Operations, and Privacy and
Security. All recommendations may be
found at https://HealthIT.hhs.gov/
standardscommittee. In addition,
specific URLs for each recommendation
have been listed below.
I. Clinical Quality
A. Background
The Clinical Quality
recommendations pertain to the
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appropriate standardized performance
measures that correspond to the HIT
Policy Committee’s 2011 Meaningful
Use Measures. The recommendations
include 30 quality performance
measures and the data types required for
each, of which National Quality Forum
(NQF)-endorsed measures can either be
retooled for use in an Electronic Health
Record (EHR) or will require attestation
for the foreseeable future.
B. Recommendations
https://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.
pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_10741_880489_
0_0_18/2011%20Measure%20
Recommendations_Clinical%20
Quality%20Workgroup_08202009.pdf.
II. Clinical Operations
A. Background
The Clinical Operations
recommendations focus on standards for
2011 Meaningful Use, including quality
data reporting, messaging formats, and
all the vocabularies necessary for
semantic interoperability.
B. Recommendations
https://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/
server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_10741_
880490_0_0_18/Ferguson_Clinical%20
Operations%20WG%20
Recommendations%20Revised%20
Summary.pdf.
III. Privacy and Security
A. Background
The Privacy and Security
recommendations focus on
authentication, authorization, auditing
and secure data transmission standards
as well as Meaningful Use measures
related to HIPAA compliance.
B. Recommendations
https://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.
pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_10741_880497_
0_0_18/PRIVACY%20AND%20
SECURITY%20STANDARDS%20
APPLICABLE%20TO%20ARRA%20
REQUIREMENTS.pdf.
Procedure: Individuals wishing to
make comments on the Committee’s
August 20, 2009, recommendations may
present oral comments at the
Committee’s next meeting on September
15, 2009, from approximately 1 p.m. to
2 p.m./Eastern Time, at the Omni
Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20008. Comments
will be limited to two (2) minutes per
person. A separate notice announcing
this meeting has been published in the
Federal Register and provides
additional information.
Authority: Sections 3003(b)(4) and (e) of
Health Information Technology for Economic
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and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Title XIII
of Division A of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Public
Law 111–5.
Dated: September 9, 2009.
Judith Sparrow,
Office of Programs and Coordination, Office
of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on
Minority Health
AGENCY: Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Office of Public Health and Science,
Office of Minority Health.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, the
Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) is hereby giving notice
that the Advisory Committee on
Minority Health (ACMH) will hold a
meeting. This meeting is open to the
public. Preregistration is required for
both public attendance and comment.
Any individual who wishes to attend
the meeting and/or participate in the
public comment session should email
acmh@osophs.dhhs.gov.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, October 21,
2009 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Doubletree Hotel, 1515 Rhode Island
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Monica A. Baltimore, Tower Building,
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 600,
Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone: 240–
453–2882 Fax: 240–453–2883.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with Public Law 105–392,
the ACMH was established to provide
advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Minority Health in improving the
health of each racial and ethnic
minority group and on the development
of goals and specific program activities
of the Office of Minority Health.
Topics to be discussed during this
meeting will include health care reform:
social determinants that affect health in
minority populations; standardized
cultural competency education, training
and mechanisms for evaluation; and
research on health disparities and their
causes, as well as other related issues.
Public attendance at the meeting is
limited to space available. Individuals
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who plan to attend and need special
assistance, such as sign language
interpretation or other reasonable
accommodations, should notify the
designated contact person at least
fourteen (14) business days prior to the
meeting. Members of the public will
have an opportunity to provide
comments at the meeting. Public
comments will be limited to three
minutes per speaker. Individuals who
would like to submit written statements
should mail or fax their comments to
the Office of Minority Health at least
seven (7) business days prior to the
meeting. Any members of the public
who wish to have printed material
distributed to ACMH committee
members should submit their materials
to the Executive Secretary, ACMH,
Tower Building, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, prior to close of
business October 13, 2009.
Dated: August 31, 2009.
Garth Graham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority
Health, Office of Minority Health, Office of
Public Health and Science, Office of the
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–09–0607]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting
System (NVDRS)—[OMB# 0920–0607,
exp.01/31/2010]—Revision—National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public
health problem. In the United States,
homicide and suicide are the second
and third leading causes of death,
respectively, in the 1–34-year-old age
group. Unfortunately, public health
agencies do not know much more about
the problem than the numbers and the
sex, race, and age of the victims, all
information obtainable from the
standard death certificate. Death
certificates, however, carry no
information about key facts necessary
for prevention such as the relationship
of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths, thereby
making it impossible to discern
anything but the gross contours of the
problem. Furthermore, death certificates
are typically available 20 months after
the completion of a single calendar year.
Official publications of national violent
death rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data
that is less than two years old. Public
health interventions aimed at a moving
target last seen two years ago may well
miss the mark.
Local and Federal criminal justice
agencies such as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more
information about homicides, but they
do not routinely collect standardized
data about suicides, which are in fact
much more common than homicides.
The FBI’s Supplemental Homicide
Report system (SHRs) does collect basic
information about the victim-suspect
relationship and circumstances, like
death certificates, it does not link
violent deaths that are part of one
incident such as homicide-suicides. It
also is a voluntary system in which
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some 10–20 percent of police
departments nationwide do not
participate. The FBI’s National Incident
Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
addresses some of these deficiencies,
but it covers less of the country than
SHRs, still includes only homicides,
and collects only police information.
Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics
Reports do not use data that is less than
two years old.
CDC therefore proposes to continue a
state-based surveillance system for
violent deaths that will provide more
detailed and timely information. It taps
into the case records held by medical
examiners/coroners, police, and crime
labs. Data is collected centrally by each
state in the system, stripped of
identifiers, and then sent to the CDC.
Information is collected from these
records about the characteristics of the
victims and suspects, the circumstances
of the deaths, and the weapons
involved. States use standardized data
elements and software designed by CDC.
Ultimately, this information will guide
states in designing programs that reduce
multiple forms of violence.
Neither victim families nor suspects
are contacted to collect this information.
It all comes from existing records and is
collected by state health department
staff or their subcontractors. Health
departments incur an average of 2.0
hours per death in identifying the
deaths from death certificates,
contacting the police and medical
examiners to get copies of or to view the
relevant records, abstracting all the
records, various data processing tasks,
various administrative tasks, data
utilization, training, communications,
etc. Public agencies working with
NVDRS states incur an average of 0.5
hours per death to retrieve and then
refile records.
This revision is a request to allow 10
new state health departments to be
added to the currently funded 17 if
funding becomes available. This may
bring the total to 27 by the year 2012.
There are no costs to respondents other
than their time. The total estimated
annual burden hours are 67,500.
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Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
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1,000
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burden per
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Minority Health
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Minority
Health.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is hereby giving notice
that the Advisory Committee on Minority Health (ACMH) will hold a
meeting. This meeting is open to the public. Preregistration is
required for both public attendance and comment. Any individual who
wishes to attend the meeting and/or participate in the public comment
session should email acmh@osophs.dhhs.gov.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, October 21, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 1515 Rhode
Island Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Monica A. Baltimore, Tower
Building, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Phone: 240-453-2882 Fax: 240-453-2883.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with Public Law 105-392, the
ACMH was established to provide advice to the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Minority Health in improving the health of each racial
and ethnic minority group and on the development of goals and specific
program activities of the Office of Minority Health.
Topics to be discussed during this meeting will include health care
reform: social determinants that affect health in minority populations;
standardized cultural competency education, training and mechanisms for
evaluation; and research on health disparities and their causes, as
well as other related issues.
Public attendance at the meeting is limited to space available.
Individuals
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who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as sign language
interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the
designated contact person at least fourteen (14) business days prior to
the meeting. Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide
comments at the meeting. Public comments will be limited to three
minutes per speaker. Individuals who would like to submit written
statements should mail or fax their comments to the Office of Minority
Health at least seven (7) business days prior to the meeting. Any
members of the public who wish to have printed material distributed to
ACMH committee members should submit their materials to the Executive
Secretary, ACMH, Tower Building, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 600,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, prior to close of business October 13, 2009.
Dated: August 31, 2009.
Garth Graham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, Office of Minority
Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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