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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for ‘‘Reporting Patient
Safety Events Challenge’’
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Farzad
Mostashari, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Patient Safety Organizations
(PSOs) listed by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) create a safe environment for
health care providers to collect,
aggregate, and analyze data without fear
of legal discovery. Hospitals struggle to
increase internal incident reporting,
especially by busy physicians and
nurses, and to create effective systems
for the quality and risk management
staff to do root cause analyses and
follow-up. The ‘‘Reporting Patient
Safety Events Challenge’’ asks multidisciplinary teams to develop an
application that facilitates the reporting
of patient safety events, whether
implemented in hospital or ambulatory
settings. The solution needs to make it
easier for any individual to file a report
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electronically, using Common Formats
but allowing for additional elements
and narratives. It must allow the
hospital quality and risk management
staff to add information from follow-up
investigation, submit reports as
appropriate to PSOs, the state, or the
FDA (which may differ, and need to be
tracked separately), and track follow-up
activities.
The statutory authority for this
challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L.
111–358).
DATES: Effective on April 11, 2012.
Challenge submission period ends July
23, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Wong, 202–720–2866; Wil Yu,
202–690–5920.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The ‘‘Reporting Patient Safety Events
Challenge’’ asks multi-disciplinary
teams to develop an application that
facilitates the reporting of patient safety
events, whether implemented in
hospital or ambulatory settings. This
application would:
• Increase the ease of reporting
patient safety events to the provider or
parent organization;
• Enable providers to import relevant
EMR, PHR, and other electronic
information, including screen shots, to
the patient safety report and, in turn,
submit an AHRQ Common Formatscompliant report to one or more PSOs;
• Capture useful demographic and
other relevant information from each
patient including age, gender, race, and
relevant diagnoses;
• Capture information about the type
of organization submitting the report
using AHRQ’s PSO Information format;
• Reduce burden of reporting by
enabling the provider or parent
organization to have the option of
submitting information in the patient
safety report to non-PSO public health
or health oversight organizations,
including state or federal programs or
accrediting or certifying bodies.
• Be platform-agnostic; and
• Leverage and extend NwHIN
standards and services including, but
not limited to, transport (Direct, web
services), content (Transitions of Care,
CCD/CCR), and standardized
vocabularies.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under
this challenge, an individual or entity—
(1) Shall have registered to participate
in the competition under the rules
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promulgated by the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall
be incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, and in the case of an individual,
whether participating singly or in a
group, shall be a citizen or permanent
resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or
Federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee
working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty
hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office
of the National Coordinator for Health
IT.
(7) Federal grantees may not use
Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless
consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.
(8) Federal contractors may not use
Federal funds from a contract to develop
COMPETES Act challenge applications
or to fund efforts in support of a
COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be
deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any
and all risks and waive claims against
the Federal Government and its related
entities, except in the case of willful
misconduct, for any injury, death,
damage, or loss of property, revenue, or
profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my
participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify
the Federal Government against third
party claims for damages arising from or
related to competition activities.
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Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge
participants should:
D Access the www.challenge.gov Web
site and search for the ‘‘Reporting
Patient Safety Events Challenge’’.
D Access the ONC Investing in
Innovation (i2) Challenge Web site at:
Æ https://www.health2challenge.org/
onc-i2-challenges/.
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Æ A registration link for the challenge
can be found on the landing page under
the challenge description.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Amount of the Prize
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
D First Prize: $50,000.
D Second Prize: $15,000.
D Third Prize: $5,000.
Awards may be subject to Federal
income taxes and HHS will comply with
IRS withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
[Docket Number NIOSH–245]
Expanded Charge for Peer Review of
the NIOSH document Titled: ‘‘Criteria
for a Recommended Standard:
Occupational Exposure to Diacetyl and
2,3-pentanedione’’
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
AGENCY:
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be
Selected
The ONC review panel will make
selections based upon the following
criteria:
1. Effectiveness of the system in
facilitating patient safety event reporting
including its compliance with AHRQ’s
Common Formats.
2. Usability and design from the
standpoint of all stakeholders.
3. Ability to integrate with electronic
health records and other HIT data
sources.
4. Creativity and innovation.
5. Leverage NwHIN standards
including transport, content, and
vocabularies.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is
determined by the following:
D Each entrant retains title and full
ownership in and to their submission.
Entrants expressly reserve all
intellectual property rights not
expressly granted under the challenge
agreement.
D By participating in the challenge,
each entrant hereby irrevocably grants
to Sponsor and Administrator a limited,
non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide,
license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display,
and use the Submission to the extent
necessary to administer the challenge,
and to publically perform and
publically display the Submission,
including, without limitation, for
advertising and promotional purposes
relating to the challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Notice of Expanded Charge for
Peer Review.
ACTION:
The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) is
undergoing peer review for the draft
document, ‘‘Criteria for a
Recommended Standard: Occupational
Exposure to Diacetyl and 2,3pentanedione.’’ NIOSH held a public
meeting on August 26, 2011 in
Washington, DC [76 FR 44338] to
discuss and obtain comments on the
draft document. Public comments were
accepted into the NIOSH docket from
August 12, 2011- November 18, 2011 [76
FR 64353]. The draft document and all
public comments received are posted on
the Internet at: https://www.cdc.gov/
niosh/docket/archive/docket245.html
for Docket number NIOSH–245. After
consultation with the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration,
Department of Labor (OSHA/DOL),
NIOSH has asked the peer reviewers
seven additional questions for
consideration which are posted here:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/review/peer/
HISA/diacetyl-pr.html.
This entry serves as notice of the
expanded charge to peer reviewers for
this draft document.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lauralynn Taylor McKernan, ScD CIH,
NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway C–32,
Cincinnati, OH 45226, telephone (513)
533–8542, Fax (513) 533–8230, email
LMcKernan@cdc.gov.
Dated: April 5, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology.
Dated: April 2, 2012.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``Reporting
Patient Safety Events Challenge''
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) listed by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) create a safe environment for
health care providers to collect, aggregate, and analyze data without
fear of legal discovery. Hospitals struggle to increase internal
incident reporting, especially by busy physicians and nurses, and to
create effective systems for the quality and risk management staff to
do root cause analyses and follow-up. The ``Reporting Patient Safety
Events Challenge'' asks multi-disciplinary teams to develop an
application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events,
whether implemented in hospital or ambulatory settings. The solution
needs to make it easier for any individual to file a report
electronically, using Common Formats but allowing for additional
elements and narratives. It must allow the hospital quality and risk
management staff to add information from follow-up investigation,
submit reports as appropriate to PSOs, the state, or the FDA (which may
differ, and need to be tracked separately), and track follow-up
activities.
The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-
358).
DATES: Effective on April 11, 2012. Challenge submission period ends
July 23, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866; Wil Yu, 202-
690-5920.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The ``Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge'' asks multi-
disciplinary teams to develop an application that facilitates the
reporting of patient safety events, whether implemented in hospital or
ambulatory settings. This application would:
Increase the ease of reporting patient safety events to
the provider or parent organization;
Enable providers to import relevant EMR, PHR, and other
electronic information, including screen shots, to the patient safety
report and, in turn, submit an AHRQ Common Formats-compliant report to
one or more PSOs;
Capture useful demographic and other relevant information
from each patient including age, gender, race, and relevant diagnoses;
Capture information about the type of organization
submitting the report using AHRQ's PSO Information format;
Reduce burden of reporting by enabling the provider or
parent organization to have the option of submitting information in the
patient safety report to non-PSO public health or health oversight
organizations, including state or federal programs or accrediting or
certifying bodies.
Be platform-agnostic; and
Leverage and extend NwHIN standards and services
including, but not limited to, transport (Direct, web services),
content (Transitions of Care, CCD/CCR), and standardized vocabularies.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual
or entity--
(1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under
the rules
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promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group,
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office of the National Coordinator
for Health IT.
(7) Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.
(8) Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract
to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify the Federal Government
against third party claims for damages arising from or related to
competition activities.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge participants should:
[ssquf] Access the www.challenge.gov Web site and search for the
``Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge''.
[ssquf] Access the ONC Investing in Innovation (i2) Challenge Web
site at:
[cir] https://www.health2challenge.org/onc-i2-challenges/.
[cir] A registration link for the challenge can be found on the
landing page under the challenge description.
Amount of the Prize
[ssquf] First Prize: $50,000.
[ssquf] Second Prize: $15,000.
[ssquf] Third Prize: $5,000.
Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes and HHS will comply
with IRS withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected
The ONC review panel will make selections based upon the following
criteria:
1. Effectiveness of the system in facilitating patient safety event
reporting including its compliance with AHRQ's Common Formats.
2. Usability and design from the standpoint of all stakeholders.
3. Ability to integrate with electronic health records and other
HIT data sources.
4. Creativity and innovation.
5. Leverage NwHIN standards including transport, content, and
vocabularies.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
[ssquf] Each entrant retains title and full ownership in and to
their submission. Entrants expressly reserve all intellectual property
rights not expressly granted under the challenge agreement.
[ssquf] By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby
irrevocably grants to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, non-
exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display, and use the Submission to the
extent necessary to administer the challenge, and to publically perform
and publically display the Submission, including, without limitation,
for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: April 5, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-8758 Filed 4-10-12; 8:45 am]
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