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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces
plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described
below, to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments
from the public regarding the burden
estimate, below, or any other aspect of
the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information
Collection Request must be received
within 60 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 10–29, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
SUMMARY:
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call the HRSA Information Collection
Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Rural Health Information Technology
(HIT) Workforce Program.
OMB No. 0915–xxxx—New.
Abstract: The purpose of the Rural
Health Information Technology (HIT)
Workforce Program is to support formal
rural health networks that focus on
activities relating to the recruitment,
education, training, and retention of HIT
specialists. This program will also
provide support to rural health
networks that can leverage and enhance
existing HIT training materials to
develop formal training programs,
which will provide instructional
opportunities to current health care
staff, local displaced workers, rural
residents, veterans, and other potential
students. These formal training
programs will result in the development
of a cadre of HIT workers who can help
rural hospitals and clinics implement
and maintain systems, such as
electronic health records (EHR),
telehealth, home monitoring, and
mobile health technology; and meet
EHR meaningful use standards.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: For this program,
performance measures were drafted to
provide data useful to the program and
to enable HRSA to provide aggregate
program data required by Congress
under the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L.
103–62). These measures cover the
principal topic areas of interest to the
Office of Rural Health Policy, including:
(a) Access to care; (b) the underinsured
and uninsured; (c) workforce
recruitment and retention; (d)
sustainability; (e) health information
technology; (f) network development;
and (g) health related clinical measures.
Several measures will be used for this
program. These measures will speak to
the Office’s progress toward meeting the
goals set.
Likely Respondents: Rural Health
Information Technology Workforce
Program award recipients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this Information
Collection Request are summarized in
the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
15
1
15
3.6
54
Total ..............................................................................
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Rural Health Information Technology Workforce Program
Performance Measures ....................................................
15
1
15
3.6
54
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Dated: January 31, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
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In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received within 30 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for
HRSA, either by email to
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to 202–395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call
(301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Questionnaire and Data Collection
Testing, Evaluation, and Research for
the Health Resources and Services
Administration.
OMB No.: 0915–xxxx—New.
Abstract: The purpose of collections
under this generic clearance is to obtain
formative information from respondents
to develop new questions,
questionnaires, and tools and to identify
problems in instruments currently in
use. This clearance request is limited to
formative research activities
emphasizing data collection, toolkit
development, and estimation
procedures and reports for internal
decision-making and development
purposes; and does not extend to the
collection of data for public release or
policy formation.
It is anticipated that these studies will
rely heavily on qualitative techniques to
meet their objective. In general, these
activities are not designed to yield
results that meet generally accepted
standards of statistical rigor; rather,
these activities are designed to obtain
valuable formative information to
develop more effective and efficient
data collection tools that will yield more
accurate results and decrease nonresponse.
HRSA conducts cognitive interviews,
focus groups, usability tests, field tests/
pilot interviews, and experimental
research in laboratory and field settings,
both for applied questionnaire
development and evaluation, as well as
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more basic research on response errors
in surveys.HRSA staff use various
techniques to evaluate interviewer
administered, self-administered,
telephone, Computer Assisted Personal
Interviewing (CAPI), Computer Assisted
Self-Interviewing (CASI), Audio
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing
(ACASI), and web-based questionnaires.
Professionally recognized procedures
will be followed in each information
collection activity to ensure high quality
data. Examples of these procedures are
likely to include:
• A certain percent of telephone
interviews will be monitored by
supervisory staff of a certain percent of
telephone interviews;
• Cognitive interviewing techniques
will be conducted, including thinkaloud techniques and debriefings;
• Data-entry from mail or paper-andpencil surveys will be computerized
through scannable forms or checked
through double-key entry;
• Observers will monitor focus
groups, and focus group proceedings
will be recorded; and
• Data submitted through on-line
surveys will be subjected to statistical
validation techniques to ensure
accuracy (such as disallowing out-ofrange values).
Each request under this generic
clearance will specify the procedures to
be used. Participation will be fully
voluntary, and non-participation will
not affect eligibility for, or receipt of,
future HRSA health services research
activities, grant awards, recruitment, or
participation. Specific testing and
evaluation procedures will be described
when we notify OMB about each new
request. Consent procedures will be
customized for each information
collection activity, but will include
assurances of confidentiality and the
legislative authority for the activity. If
the encounter is to be recorded, the
respondent’s permission to record will
be obtained before beginning the
interview.
Recruitment—Respondents will be
recruited by means of advertisements in
public venues or through techniques
that replicate prospective data
collection activities that are the focus of
the project. For instance, a survey on
physician communication, designed to
be administered following an office
visit, might be pretested using the same
procedure. Each submission to OMB
will specify the specific recruitment
procedure to be used.
Screening—When screening is
required (e.g., quota sampling), the
screening will be as brief as possible,
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and the screening questionnaire will be
provided as part of the submission to
OMB.
Collection methods—The particular
information collection methods used
will vary, but may include the
following:
• Individual in-depth interviews—Indepth interviews will commonly be
used to ensure that the meaning of a
questionnaire or strategy is understood
by the respondent. When in-depth
interviewing is used, the interview
guide will be provided to OMB for
review.
• Focus groups—Focus groups will be
used to obtain insights into beliefs and
understandings of the target audience
early in the development of a
questionnaire or tool. When focus
groups are used, the focus group
discussion guide will be provided to
OMB for review.
• Expert/Gatekeeper review of tools—
In some instances, tools designed for
patients may be reviewed in-depth by
medical providers or other gatekeepers
to provide feedback on the acceptability
and usability of a particular tool. This
would usually be in addition to
pretesting of the tool by the actual
patient or other user.
• Record abstractions—On occasion,
the development of a tool or other
information collection requires review
and interaction with records rather than
individuals.
• ‘‘Dress rehearsal’’ of a specific
protocol—In some instances, the
proposed pretesting will constitute a
walkthrough of the intended data
collection procedure. In these instances,
the request will mirror what is expected
to occur for the larger scale data
collection.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this Information
Collection Request are summarized in
the table below.
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of information collection
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Mail/email 1 ...........................................................................
Telephone ............................................................................
Web-based ...........................................................................
Focus Groups ......................................................................
In-person ..............................................................................
Automated 2 ..........................................................................
Cognitive Interviewing ..........................................................
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
30,000
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
30,000
0.5
0.5
0.5
2.0
1.0
1.0
2.0
5,000
5,000
5,000
20,000
10,000
10,000
60,000
Total ..............................................................................
90,000
........................
90,000
........................
115,000
1 May
2 May
include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
include testing of database software, CAPI software, or other automated technologies.
Dated: February 5, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014–02896 Filed 2–10–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period.
SUMMARY:
Comments on this ICR should be
received within 30 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for
HRSA, either by email to OIRA_
submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to
202–395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call
(301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)—
Program Specific Data Form OMB No.
0915–xxxx—NEW.
Abstract: This clearance request is for
approval of the new Nurse Faculty Loan
Program (NFLP) Program Specific Data
Form. The form was previously
approved under OMB Approval No:
0915–0061, Expiration date: June 30,
2013. The data form was discontinued
under the old approval number.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The NFLP Program
Specific Data Form is included as an
electronic attachment with the required
application materials. The data
provided in the form are essential for
the formula-based criteria used to
determine the award amount to the
DATES:
applicant schools. Approval of the new
NFLP Program Specific Data Form will
facilitate our current effort to address
the specific program goal of capturing
data to efficiently generate the formulabased award. The electronic data
collection capability will streamline the
application submission process, enable
an efficient award determination
process, and serve as a data repository
to facilitate reporting on the use of
funds and analysis of program
outcomes.
Likely Respondents: Likely
Respondents are NFLP applicants.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
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Form name
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
NFLP-Program Specific Data From .....................................
150
1
150
8
1,200
Total Burden .................................................................
150
1
150
8
1,200
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the
review and approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this
notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Questionnaire and Data
Collection Testing, Evaluation, and Research for the Health Resources
and Services Administration.
OMB No.: 0915-xxxx--New.
Abstract: The purpose of collections under this generic clearance
is to obtain formative information from respondents to develop new
questions, questionnaires, and tools and to identify problems in
instruments currently in use. This clearance request is limited to
formative research activities emphasizing data collection, toolkit
development, and estimation procedures and reports for internal
decision-making and development purposes; and does not extend to the
collection of data for public release or policy formation.
It is anticipated that these studies will rely heavily on
qualitative techniques to meet their objective. In general, these
activities are not designed to yield results that meet generally
accepted standards of statistical rigor; rather, these activities are
designed to obtain valuable formative information to develop more
effective and efficient data collection tools that will yield more
accurate results and decrease non-response.
HRSA conducts cognitive interviews, focus groups, usability tests,
field tests/pilot interviews, and experimental research in laboratory
and field settings, both for applied questionnaire development and
evaluation, as well as more basic research on response errors in
surveys.HRSA staff use various techniques to evaluate interviewer
administered, self-administered, telephone, Computer Assisted Personal
Interviewing (CAPI), Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (CASI), Audio
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI), and web-based
questionnaires.
Professionally recognized procedures will be followed in each
information collection activity to ensure high quality data. Examples
of these procedures are likely to include:
A certain percent of telephone interviews will be
monitored by supervisory staff of a certain percent of telephone
interviews;
Cognitive interviewing techniques will be conducted,
including think-aloud techniques and debriefings;
Data-entry from mail or paper-and-pencil surveys will be
computerized through scannable forms or checked through double-key
entry;
Observers will monitor focus groups, and focus group
proceedings will be recorded; and
Data submitted through on-line surveys will be subjected
to statistical validation techniques to ensure accuracy (such as
disallowing out-of-range values).
Each request under this generic clearance will specify the
procedures to be used. Participation will be fully voluntary, and non-
participation will not affect eligibility for, or receipt of, future
HRSA health services research activities, grant awards, recruitment, or
participation. Specific testing and evaluation procedures will be
described when we notify OMB about each new request. Consent procedures
will be customized for each information collection activity, but will
include assurances of confidentiality and the legislative authority for
the activity. If the encounter is to be recorded, the respondent's
permission to record will be obtained before beginning the interview.
Recruitment--Respondents will be recruited by means of
advertisements in public venues or through techniques that replicate
prospective data collection activities that are the focus of the
project. For instance, a survey on physician communication, designed to
be administered following an office visit, might be pretested using the
same procedure. Each submission to OMB will specify the specific
recruitment procedure to be used.
Screening--When screening is required (e.g., quota sampling), the
screening will be as brief as possible, and the screening questionnaire
will be provided as part of the submission to OMB.
Collection methods--The particular information collection methods
used will vary, but may include the following:
Individual in-depth interviews--In-depth interviews will
commonly be used to ensure that the meaning of a questionnaire or
strategy is understood by the respondent. When in-depth interviewing is
used, the interview guide will be provided to OMB for review.
Focus groups--Focus groups will be used to obtain insights
into beliefs and understandings of the target audience early in the
development of a questionnaire or tool. When focus groups are used, the
focus group discussion guide will be provided to OMB for review.
Expert/Gatekeeper review of tools--In some instances,
tools designed for patients may be reviewed in-depth by medical
providers or other gatekeepers to provide feedback on the acceptability
and usability of a particular tool. This would usually be in addition
to pretesting of the tool by the actual patient or other user.
Record abstractions--On occasion, the development of a
tool or other information collection requires review and interaction
with records rather than individuals.
``Dress rehearsal'' of a specific protocol--In some
instances, the proposed pretesting will constitute a walkthrough of the
intended data collection procedure. In these instances, the request
will mirror what is expected to occur for the larger scale data
collection.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
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Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Type of information collection respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Mail/email \1\.................. 10,000 1 10,000 0.5 5,000
Telephone....................... 10,000 1 10,000 0.5 5,000
Web-based....................... 10,000 1 10,000 0.5 5,000
Focus Groups.................... 10,000 1 10,000 2.0 20,000
In-person....................... 10,000 1 10,000 1.0 10,000
Automated \2\................... 10,000 1 10,000 1.0 10,000
Cognitive Interviewing.......... 30,000 1 30,000 2.0 60,000
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Total....................... 90,000 .............. 90,000 .............. 115,000
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\1\ May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
\2\ May include testing of database software, CAPI software, or other automated technologies.
Dated: February 5, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-02896 Filed 2-10-14; 8:45 am]
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