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Hearing Clerk be a member of ‘‘senior
level staff at the Council.’’ 19 Section 2
of the Council Hearing Procedures
defines the Hearing Clerk as ‘‘an
individual appointed by the
Chairperson [of the Council] to facilitate
a written or oral hearing before the
Council or its representatives.’’ The
Chairperson must appoint the Hearing
Clerk ‘‘[u]pon receipt of a timely written
request for a hearing . . .’’ 20 Even
though the Council has delegated
authority to the Chairperson to select
the Hearing Clerk, the Council expects
the Chairperson to exercise that
authority by selecting an individual
who is a senior member of the staff of
the Council or of a Council member or
member agency.
One commenter requests that the
number of days afforded to a nonbank
financial company petitioner to submit
written materials after an oral hearing be
extended from seven to fifteen days.21
The Council believes that the Initial
Hearing Procedures need not be
amended in this manner because seven
days is a reasonable period in light of
the fact that, at the time at which this
section would be relevant, a nonbank
financial company petitioner already
will have had an opportunity to submit
written materials, and an oral hearing,
to contest the Council’s proposed
determination.
This commenter also states that any
limitations on the written materials a
petitioner may present, or on the
duration of an oral hearing, as permitted
under § 3(c) of the Council Hearing
Procedures (unchanged from the Initial
Hearing Procedures), should be applied
by the Hearing Clerk in ‘‘extreme cases
only.’’ 22 More generally, this
commenter requests that, before the
Council or the Hearing Clerk selects a
date and place the petitioner is required
to appear for a hearing, ‘‘the Hearing
Clerk communicate with the petitioner
to pick a date, time, and place which is
convenient for both the petitioner, the
Hearing Clerk, and [the Council].’’ 23
The Council has determined that the
Initial Hearing Procedures need not be
amended to address these concerns
regarding the particular limitations or
arrangements that generally should
19 AFSA,
at 3.
Hearing Procedures, § 3(c).
21 AFSA, at 4. See Council Hearing Procedures,
§ 5(b)(3)(ii).
22 AFSA, at 3. See also AIA, at 5 (stating that ‘‘due
process considerations and fundamental fairness
suggest that no limit should be imposed on the
ability of a [nonbank financial] company, which is
on the brink of being determined by the Council to
be subject to Federal Reserve Board supervision, to
submit what [the company] concludes is necessary
to convince the Council otherwise’’).
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apply in hearings. Nonetheless, the
Council expects that, in the ordinary
course of making procedural
determinations, the Hearing Clerk will
coordinate with the petitioner, as
appropriate, for the purpose of
facilitating an ‘‘orderly and timely’’
hearing.24
D. Denial and Dismissal of a Hearing
Section 7 of the Council Hearing
Procedures provides that ‘‘[f]ailure to
make a timely request for a hearing will
waive the petitioner’s right to a hearing
pursuant to section 113(e)(4) or section
804(d)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act.’’ One
commenter requests that the Council
clarify that the Council or the Hearing
Clerk will verify that the petitioner did,
in fact, receive the Council’s notice of
the proposed determination before a
petitioner is deemed to have waived a
right for a hearing.25 The Council
expects to take reasonable steps to verify
that a petitioner has, in fact, received
the Council’s notice of proposed
determination before determining that a
waiver has occurred under § 7 of the
Council Hearing Procedures.
Dated: April 4, 2013.
Rebecca H. Ewing,
Executive Secretary, Department of the
Treasury.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for ‘‘Apps4Tots Health
Challenge’’
AUTHORITY:
15 U.S.C. 3719.
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Farzad
Mostashari, National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: As part of the Department of
Health and Human Services digital
services strategy, the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA),
the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology
(ONC), and Healthdata.gov are joining
forces in an attempt to leverage two key
assets recently made available to the
public. The Apps4TotsHealth Challenge
is a call for developers, researchers, and
other innovators to make use of the
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Healthdata.gov data API and integrate
the TXT4Tots message library into a
new or existing platform.
TXT4Tots is a library of short,
evidence-based messages focused on
nutrition and physical activity. The
library is targeted to parents and
caregivers of children, ages 1–5 years,
and is available in English and Spanish.
Content for the messages was derived
from American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) Bright Futures: Guidelines for
Health Supervision of Infants, Children
and Adolescents, which uses a
developmentally based approach to
address children’s health needs in the
context of family and community.
Healthdata.gov (www.healthdata.gov)
is the Department’s open data catalog,
housing metadata records on close to
400 HHS datasets. Recently,
Healthdata.gov has enabled a publiclyaccessible data application
programming interface (API) that allows
programmatic access to the TXT4Tots
message library.
The statutory authority for this
challenge competition is Section 105 of
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public L.
No 111–358).
DATES:
• Submission period begins: April 11,
2013.
• Submission period ends: May 20,
2013.
• Winners announced: Health
Datapalooza, June 3–4, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Wong, 202–720–2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The Apps4TotsHealth Challenge is a
call for developers, researchers, and
other innovators to make use of the
Healthdata.gov data API and integrate
the TXT4Tots message library into a
new or existing platform. The intent of
the challenge is two-fold:
1. Showcase the use of the new data
API on Healthdata.gov.
2. Incorporate the TXT4Tots message
library into a new or existing platform.
It is important to note that stand-alone
applications that only use the TXT4Tots
message library will not be sufficient to
qualify for an award. An app that asks
for the child’s birth date and begins
texting the parents based on the age of
the child would not be innovative.
Instead, we are looking to you to use the
TXT4Tots library content as part of a
larger application, where these messages
will augment existing content and
provide for a richer application as a
result.
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Instructions for how to use the
Healthdata.gov data API can be found at
https://healthdata.gov/data-api.
The application submitted must:
• Demonstrate use of the
Healthdata.gov data API to integrate the
TXT4Tots message library into an
existing platform or new platform aimed
at providing interactions between the
data source and an existing function.
• Demonstrate the use of the
information to augment messaging
aimed toward consumer or health care
providers.
• The content may be integrated into
an existing web, mobile, voice,
electronic health record, or other
platform for supporting interactions of
the content provided with other
capabilities. Examples include querybased prompts that generate messages
using the library, visualization methods
that graphically display messages,
delivery of information with other
platforms with calendar functions, and
uses of gaming approaches aimed at
enhancing consumer actions directed
from the text library, among others.
• Demonstrate creative user interfaces
that optimize the user’s understanding
of the messages and ease-of-use of the
applications.
• Demonstrate means by which
services of the native application are
enhanced by the integration of the new
content.
To be eligible to receive a prize, Solvers
must submit (1) the functioning
application, or directions to access it,
and (2) a PowerPoint slide deck, of no
more than seven slides, that describes
how the application addresses the
requirements above.
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
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
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(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 can access either the
https://www.challenge.gov Web site or
the ONC Investing in Innovation
Challenge Web site at https://www.
health2con.com/devchallenge/
challenges/onc-i2-challenges/.
Amount of the Prize
• Total: $25,000 in prizes.
• First Place: $17,500.
• Second Place: $5,000.
• Third Place: $2,500.
• Honorable Mention (no monetary
award) for best not-yet-available
application.
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 review panel will make selections
based upon the following criteria:
• Application usability and intuitive
user interface—25%.
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• Application completeness—25%.
• Creativity in solving specific health
problem(s)—25%.
• Innovative integration into a larger
platform (new or existing)—25%.
In order for an entry to be eligible to
win this Challenge, it must meet the
following requirements:
1. General—Contestants must provide
continuous access to the tool, a detailed
description of the tool, instructions on
how to install and operate the tool, and
system requirements required to run the
tool (collectively, ‘‘Submission’’).
2. Acceptable platforms—The tool
must be designed for use with existing
web, mobile, voice, electronic health
record, or other platform for supporting
interactions of the content provided
with other capabilities.
3. Section 508 Compliance—
Contestants must acknowledge that they
understand that, as a pre-requisite to
any subsequent acquisition by FAR
contract or other method, they may be
required to make their proposed
solution compliant with Section 508
accessibility and usability requirements
at their own expense. Any electronic
information technology that is
ultimately obtained by HHS for its use,
development, or maintenance must
meet Section 508 accessibility and
usability standards. Past experience has
demonstrated that it can be costly for
solution-providers to ‘‘retrofit’’
solutions if remediation is later needed.
The HHS Section 508 Evaluation
Product Assessment Template, available
at https://www.hhs.gov/od/vendors/
index.html, provides a useful roadmap
for developers to review. It is a simple,
web-based checklist utilized by HHS
officials to allow vendors to document
how their products do or do not meet
the various Section 508 requirements.
4. No HHS, ONC, or HRSA logo—The
app must not use HHS’, ONC’s, or
HRSA’s logos or official seals in the
Submission, and must not claim
endorsement.
5. Functionality/Accuracy—A
Submission may be disqualified if the
software application fails to function as
expressed in the description provided
by the user, or if the software
application provides inaccurate or
incomplete information.
6. Security—Submissions must be free
of malware. Contestant agrees that ONC
may conduct testing on the app to
determine whether malware or other
security threats may be present. ONC
may disqualify the app if, in ONC’s
judgment, the app may damage
government or others’ equipment or
operating environment.
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Additional Information
General Conditions: ONC reserves the
right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify
the Contest, or any part of it, for any
reason, at ONC’s sole discretion.
Participation in this Contest constitutes
a contestant’s full and unconditional
agreement to abide by the Contest’s
Official Rules found at
www.challenge.gov.
Privacy Policy: ChallengePost collects
personal information from you when
you register on Challenge.gov. The
information collected is subject to the
ChallengePost privacy policy located at
www.challengepost.com/privacy.
Ownership of intellectual property is
determined by the following:
• 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.
• 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.
Dated: April 8, 2013.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology.
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Minority Health (OMH), is seeking
nominations of qualified candidates to
be considered for appointment as a
member of the Advisory Committee on
Minority Health (hereafter referred to as
the ‘‘Committee or ACMH’’). In
accordance with Public Law 105–392,
the Committee provides advice to the
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority
Health, on improving the health of each
racial and ethnic minority group and on
the development of goals and specific
program activities of OMH designed to
improve the health status and outcomes
of racial and ethnic minorities.
Nominations of qualified candidates are
being sought to fill upcoming vacancies
on the Committee.
Nominations for membership on
the Committee must be received no later
than 5:00 p.m. EST on May 31, 2013, at
the address listed below.
DATES:
All nominations should be
mailed to Ms. Monica Baltimore,
Executive Director, Advisory Committee
on Minority Health, Office of Minority
Health, Department of Health and
Human Services, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, MD
20852.
ADDRESSES:
Ms.
Monica Baltimore, Executive Director,
Advisory Committee on Minority
Health, Office of Minority Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
600, Rockville, MD 20852; Telephone:
(240) 453–2882.
A copy of the ACMH charter and list
of the current membership can be
obtained by contacting Ms. Baltimore or
by accessing the Web site managed by
OMH at www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pursuant
to Public Law 105–392, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services established
the ACMH. The Committee provides
advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Minority Health in carrying out the
duties stipulated under Public Law 105–
392. This includes providing advice on
improving the health of racial and
ethnic minority populations and in the
development of goals and specific
program activities of OMH, which are
to:
(1) Establish short-range and longrange goals and objectives and
coordinate all other activities within the
Public Health Service that relate to
disease prevention, health promotion,
service delivery, and research impacting
racial and ethnic minority populations;
(2) enter into interagency agreements
with other agencies of the Public Health
Service;
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Solicitation of Nomination for
Appointment to the Advisory
Committee on Minority Health
Office of Minority Health,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Health, Office of the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 300u-6, Section 1707
of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
The Advisory Committee is governed by
provisions of Public Law 92–463, as
amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets
forth standards for the formation and use of
advisory committees.
SUMMARY: The Department of Health and
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(3) support research, demonstrations,
and evaluations to test new and
innovative models;
(4) increase knowledge and
understanding of health risk factors;
(5) develop mechanisms that support
better information dissemination,
education, prevention, and service
delivery to individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds, including
individuals who are members of racial
or ethnic minority groups;
(6) ensure that the National Center for
Health Statistics collects data on the
health status of each minority group;
(7) with respect to individuals who
lack proficiency in speaking the English
language, enter into contracts with
public and nonprofit private providers
of primary health services for the
purpose of increasing the access of these
individuals to such services by
developing and carrying out programs to
provide bilingual or interpretive
services;
(8) support a national minority health
resource center to carry out the
following:
(a) facilitate the exchange of
information regarding matters relating to
health information and health
promotion, preventive health services,
and education in appropriate use of
health care;
(b) facilitate access to such
information;
(c) assist in the analysis of issues and
problems relating to such matters;
(d) provide technical assistance with
respect to the exchange of such
information (including facilitating the
development of materials for such
technical assistance);
(9) carry out programs to improve
access to health care services for
individuals with limited proficiency in
speaking the English language.
Activities under the preceding sentence
shall include developing and evaluating
model projects; and
(10) advise in matters related to the
development, implementation, and
evaluation of health professions
education in decreasing disparities in
health care outcomes, including cultural
competency as a method of eliminating
health disparities.
Management and support services for
the ACMH are provided by OMH.
Nominations: OMH is requesting
nominations for upcoming vacancies on
the ACMH. The Committee is composed
of 12 voting members, in addition to
non-voting ex officio members. This
announcement is seeking nominations
for voting members. Voting members of
the Committee are appointed by the
Secretary from individuals who are not
officers or employees of the Federal
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``Apps4Tots
Health Challenge''
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
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: As part of the Department of Health and Human Services digital
services strategy, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC), and Healthdata.gov are joining forces in an attempt
to leverage two key assets recently made available to the public. The
Apps4TotsHealth Challenge is a call for developers, researchers, and
other innovators to make use of the Healthdata.gov data API and
integrate the TXT4Tots message library into a new or existing platform.
TXT4Tots is a library of short, evidence-based messages focused on
nutrition and physical activity. The library is targeted to parents and
caregivers of children, ages 1-5 years, and is available in English and
Spanish. Content for the messages was derived from American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP) Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of
Infants, Children and Adolescents, which uses a developmentally based
approach to address children's health needs in the context of family
and community.
Healthdata.gov (www.healthdata.gov) is the Department's open data
catalog, housing metadata records on close to 400 HHS datasets.
Recently, Healthdata.gov has enabled a publicly-accessible data
application programming interface (API) that allows programmatic access
to the TXT4Tots message library.
The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public L. No
111-358).
DATES:
Submission period begins: April 11, 2013.
Submission period ends: May 20, 2013.
Winners announced: Health Datapalooza, June 3-4, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The Apps4TotsHealth Challenge is a call for developers,
researchers, and other innovators to make use of the Healthdata.gov
data API and integrate the TXT4Tots message library into a new or
existing platform. The intent of the challenge is two-fold:
1. Showcase the use of the new data API on Healthdata.gov.
2. Incorporate the TXT4Tots message library into a new or existing
platform.
It is important to note that stand-alone applications that only use
the TXT4Tots message library will not be sufficient to qualify for an
award. An app that asks for the child's birth date and begins texting
the parents based on the age of the child would not be innovative.
Instead, we are looking to you to use the TXT4Tots library content as
part of a larger application, where these messages will augment
existing content and provide for a richer application as a result.
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Instructions for how to use the Healthdata.gov data API can be
found at https://healthdata.gov/data-api.
The application submitted must:
Demonstrate use of the Healthdata.gov data API to
integrate the TXT4Tots message library into an existing platform or new
platform aimed at providing interactions between the data source and an
existing function.
Demonstrate the use of the information to augment
messaging aimed toward consumer or health care providers.
The content may be integrated into an existing web,
mobile, voice, electronic health record, or other platform for
supporting interactions of the content provided with other
capabilities. Examples include query-based prompts that generate
messages using the library, visualization methods that graphically
display messages, delivery of information with other platforms with
calendar functions, and uses of gaming approaches aimed at enhancing
consumer actions directed from the text library, among others.
Demonstrate creative user interfaces that optimize the
user's understanding of the messages and ease-of-use of the
applications.
Demonstrate means by which services of the native
application are enhanced by the integration of the new content.
To be eligible to receive a prize, Solvers must submit (1) the
functioning application, or directions to access it, and (2) a
PowerPoint slide deck, of no more than seven slides, that describes how
the application addresses the requirements above.
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 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 can access either the
https://www.challenge.gov Web site or the ONC Investing in Innovation
Challenge Web site at https://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/challenges/onc-i2-challenges/.
Amount of the Prize
Total: $25,000 in prizes.
First Place: $17,500.
Second Place: $5,000.
Third Place: $2,500.
Honorable Mention (no monetary award) for best not-yet-
available application.
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 review panel will make selections based upon the following
criteria:
Application usability and intuitive user interface--25%.
Application completeness--25%.
Creativity in solving specific health problem(s)--25%.
Innovative integration into a larger platform (new or
existing)--25%.
In order for an entry to be eligible to win this Challenge, it must
meet the following requirements:
1. General--Contestants must provide continuous access to the tool,
a detailed description of the tool, instructions on how to install and
operate the tool, and system requirements required to run the tool
(collectively, ``Submission'').
2. Acceptable platforms--The tool must be designed for use with
existing web, mobile, voice, electronic health record, or other
platform for supporting interactions of the content provided with other
capabilities.
3. Section 508 Compliance--Contestants must acknowledge that they
understand that, as a pre-requisite to any subsequent acquisition by
FAR contract or other method, they may be required to make their
proposed solution compliant with Section 508 accessibility and
usability requirements at their own expense. Any electronic information
technology that is ultimately obtained by HHS for its use, development,
or maintenance must meet Section 508 accessibility and usability
standards. Past experience has demonstrated that it can be costly for
solution-providers to ``retrofit'' solutions if remediation is later
needed. The HHS Section 508 Evaluation Product Assessment Template,
available at https://www.hhs.gov/od/vendors/, provides a
useful roadmap for developers to review. It is a simple, web-based
checklist utilized by HHS officials to allow vendors to document how
their products do or do not meet the various Section 508 requirements.
4. No HHS, ONC, or HRSA logo--The app must not use HHS', ONC's, or
HRSA's logos or official seals in the Submission, and must not claim
endorsement.
5. Functionality/Accuracy--A Submission may be disqualified if the
software application fails to function as expressed in the description
provided by the user, or if the software application provides
inaccurate or incomplete information.
6. Security--Submissions must be free of malware. Contestant agrees
that ONC may conduct testing on the app to determine whether malware or
other security threats may be present. ONC may disqualify the app if,
in ONC's judgment, the app may damage government or others' equipment
or operating environment.
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Additional Information
General Conditions: ONC reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/
or modify the Contest, or any part of it, for any reason, at ONC's sole
discretion. Participation in this Contest constitutes a contestant's
full and unconditional agreement to abide by the Contest's Official
Rules found at www.challenge.gov.
Privacy Policy: ChallengePost collects personal information from
you when you register on Challenge.gov. The information collected is
subject to the ChallengePost privacy policy located at
www.challengepost.com/privacy.
Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
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.
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.
Dated: April 8, 2013.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2013-08821 Filed 4-15-13; 8:45 am]
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