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support but will not be highly
systematic nor intended to be
statistically representative.
ACF programs promote the economic
and social well-being of families,
children, individuals and communities.
OPRE studies ACF programs, and the
populations they serve, through rigorous
research and evaluation projects. These
include evaluations of existing
programs, evaluations of innovative
approaches to helping low income
children and families, research
syntheses and descriptive and
exploratory studies. OPRE’s research
serves to provide further understanding
of current programs and service
populations, explore options for
program improvement, and assess
alternative policy and program designs.
OPRE anticipates undertaking a variety
of new research projects related to
welfare, employment and selfsufficiency, Head Start, child care,
healthy marriage and responsible
fatherhood, family and youth services,
home visiting, and child welfare. Many
ACF program offices find a need to learn
more about funded program services to
inform internal decision making and to
provide adequate support. Some
program offices conduct their own
research and evaluation projects.
Under this generic clearance, ACF
would engage in a variety of formative
data collections with researchers,
practitioners, TA providers, service
providers and program participants
throughout the field to fulfill the
following goals: (1) Inform the
development of ACF research, (2)
maintain a research agenda that is
rigorous and relevant, (3) ensure that
research products are as current and
responsive to audience needs as
possible and (4) inform the provision of
technical assistance. ACF envisions
using a variety of techniques including
semi-structured discussions, focus
groups, and telephone or in-person
interviews, in order to reach these goals.
Following standard OMB
requirements, OPRE will submit a
change request for each individual data
collection activity under this generic
clearance. Each request will include the
individual instrument(s), a justification
specific to the individual information
collection, and any supplementary
documents. OMB should review
requests within 10 days of submission.
Under this generic IC information will
not be collected with the primary
purpose of publication, but findings are
meant to inform ACF activities and may
be incorporated into documents or
presentations that are made public. The
following are some examples of ways in
which we may disseminate information
resulting from these data collections:
Research design documents or reports;
research or technical assistance plans;
background materials for technical
workgroups; concept maps, process
maps, or conceptual frameworks;
contextualization of research findings
from a follow-up data collection that has
full PRA approval; informational reports
to stakeholders such as funders,
grantees, local implementing agencies,
and/or TA providers. In presenting
findings, we will describe the study
methods and limitations with regard to
generalizability and as a basis for policy
recommendations.
Respondents: Key stakeholder groups
involved in ACF projects and programs,
state or local government officials,
service providers, participants in ACF
programs or similar comparison groups;
experts in fields pertaining to ACF
research and programs, or others
involved in conducting ACF research or
evaluation projects.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Estimated
total
number of
respondents
Instrument type
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Semi-Structured Discussions, Focus Groups ..................................................
Interviews .........................................................................................................
Questionnaires/Surveys ...................................................................................
Total Estimated Burden Hours: 4,500.
In compliance with the requirements
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above.
Copies of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained and
comments may be forwarded by writing
to the Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. Email
address: OPREinfocollection@
acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be
identified by the title of the information
collection.
The Department specifically requests
comments on (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
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Estimated
number of
responses per
respondent
1,750
750
500
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
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1
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Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Public Comment Request;
Information Collection Request Title:
Bureau of Primary Health Care Uniform
Data System, OMB No. 0915–0193—
Revision
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HUMAN SERVICES
Mary Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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Average
burden hours
per response
Notice.
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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
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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 no later than November 13,
2017.
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 Lisa
Wright-Solomon, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference, in compliance with Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
Information Collection Request Title:
Bureau of Primary Health Care Uniform
Data System, OMB No. 0915–0193—
Revision.
Abstract: The Uniform Data System
(UDS) is the Bureau of Primary Health
Care’s (BPHC) annual reporting system
for the HRSA-supported health centers.
UDS includes reporting requirements
for Health Center Program look-alikes
and grantees of the following:
Community Health Center program,
Migrant Health Center program, Health
Care for the Homeless program, and
Public Housing Primary Care program.
A subset of recipients of the Bureau of
Health Workforce’s (BHW) Nurse
Education, Practice, Quality and
Retention (NEPQR) program,
specifically those recipients that are
funded under the practice priority areas
listed under Public Health Services Act
(PHSA) Sec. 831(b), are also required to
complete UDS annual reporting.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA collects UDS data
annually to ensure compliance with
legislative and regulatory requirements,
improve health center performance and
operations, and report overall program
accomplishments. The data help to
identify trends, enabling HRSA to
establish or expand targeted programs
and identify effective services and
interventions to improve the health of
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medically underserved communities
and vulnerable populations. UDS data
are compared with national healthrelated data, including the National
Health Interview Survey and National
Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey to explore potential differences
between health center patient
populations and the U.S. population at
large, and those individuals and
families who rely on the health care
safety net for primary care. UDS data
also inform Health Center Program
partners and communities regarding the
patients served by health centers.
HRSA received public comment to the
Federal Register notice ‘‘Bureau of
Primary Health Care Uniform Data
System’’ published on May 5, 2017, at
82 FR 21253. We have taken the
commenter’s suggestions into
consideration and have made
appropriate adjustments to the data
collection instruments.
The UDS data collection will be
revised in six ways.
• To support continued efforts to
standardize data collection and reduce
the burden per respondent of reporting
for health centers, HRSA is updating the
clinical quality measures in table 6B
and 7 to align with the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) designated for the 2018 reporting
period.
• Poor glycemic control is defined as
HbA1c >9% per the CMS quality
programs and e-specifications. Although
clinical recommendations (e.g.,
American Diabetes Association) suggest
that people with diabetes should aim to
have an HbA1c ≤7% (or HbA1c<8%),
the CMS e-specification only accounts
for ‘‘poor diabetes control.’’ Therefore,
HRSA is removing this column to be
consistent with the Healthy People 2020
national benchmark, CMS eCQMs, and
to reduce reporting burden.
• Patient Centered Medical Home
(PCMH) recognition assesses a health
center’s approach to patient-centered
care. HRSA routinely receives PCMH
recognition data from national quality
recognition bodies. Therefore, HRSA is
removing this question to reduce
reporting burden.
• Telehealth is increasingly used as a
method of health care delivery for the
health center patient population,
especially hard-to-reach patients living
in geographically isolated communities.
Collecting information on telehealth
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capacity and use of telehealth is
essential for delivering technical
assistance to health centers and assuring
access to comprehensive, culturally
competent, quality primary health care
services. Based on the uniqueness of
telehealth data and its introduction into
the UDS system, HRSA is proposing
questions that more precisely describe
health center efforts in this area.
• Medication-Assisted Treatment
(MAT) has been proven to be an
effective treatment option for substance
abuse disorder. With the enactment of
the Comprehensive Addiction and
Recovery Act of 2016, Public Law 114–
198, opioid treatment prescribing
privileges have been extended beyond
physicians to include certain qualifying
nurse practitioners (NPs) and
physicians’ assistants (PAs). As a result,
HRSA is updating the MAT for Opioid
Use Disorder question in Appendix E of
the UDS to include NPs and PAs who
have received an appropriate waiver to
dispense narcotic drugs.
• In 2016, 98.7% of HRSA supported
grantees reported adoption and use of
Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The
question in Appendix D regarding
Meaningful Use attestation stages
captures precise data regarding health
center participation in the program.
HRSA is updating this question to align
with the CMS EHR Incentive Program
Updates pertaining to attestation titles.
Likely Respondents: The respondents
will be HRSA BPHC Health Center
Program grantees, look-alikes, and BHW
NEPQR Program recipients funded
under the practice priority areas listed
under PHSA Sec. 831(b).
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.
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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
Universal Report ..................................................................
Grant Report ........................................................................
1,471
504
1
1
1,471
504
168
21
247,128
10,584
Total ..............................................................................
1,975
........................
1,975
........................
257,712
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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[Document Identifier HHS–OS–0955–0003]
60-Day Notice Template for Request
for Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Routine Customer
Feedback on HHS Communications
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments. Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information
Technology is requesting OMB approval
for an extension on the Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Routine
Customer Feedback by OMB.
AGENCY:
Department of Health and
Human Services, The Office of the
Secretary (OS), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public to take this opportunity to
comment on the ‘‘Generic Clearance for
the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery’’ for
approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA). This collection
was developed as part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process for seeking feedback from
the public on service delivery. This
notice announces our intent to submit
this collection to OMB for approval and
solicits comments on specific aspects
for the proposed information collection.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by December 11,
2017.
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SUMMARY:
Submit comments by one of
the following methods:
• Web site: www.regulations.gov.
Direct comments to Docket ID OMB–
2010–0021.
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• Email:
Information.CollectionClearance@
hhs.gov.
• Phone: (202) 795–7714.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant Web sites. For
this reason, please do not include in
your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary
information. If you send an email
comment, your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
Internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sherrette Funn, Sherrette.funn@
HHS.GOV or (202) 795–7714.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The proposed information
collection activity provides a means to
garner qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the
Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
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to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency’s services
will be unavailable.
The Agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
• Information gathered will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
outside of the agency;
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but it does not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Public Comment Request;
Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Primary Health Care
Uniform Data System, OMB No. 0915-0193--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 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
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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 no later than November
13, 2017.
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 Lisa Wright-Solomon, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information request collection title
for reference, in compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Primary Health Care
Uniform Data System, OMB No. 0915-0193--Revision.
Abstract: The Uniform Data System (UDS) is the Bureau of Primary
Health Care's (BPHC) annual reporting system for the HRSA-supported
health centers. UDS includes reporting requirements for Health Center
Program look-alikes and grantees of the following: Community Health
Center program, Migrant Health Center program, Health Care for the
Homeless program, and Public Housing Primary Care program. A subset of
recipients of the Bureau of Health Workforce's (BHW) Nurse Education,
Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) program, specifically those
recipients that are funded under the practice priority areas listed
under Public Health Services Act (PHSA) Sec. 831(b), are also required
to complete UDS annual reporting.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA collects UDS data
annually to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory
requirements, improve health center performance and operations, and
report overall program accomplishments. The data help to identify
trends, enabling HRSA to establish or expand targeted programs and
identify effective services and interventions to improve the health of
medically underserved communities and vulnerable populations. UDS data
are compared with national health-related data, including the National
Health Interview Survey and National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey to explore potential differences between health center patient
populations and the U.S. population at large, and those individuals and
families who rely on the health care safety net for primary care. UDS
data also inform Health Center Program partners and communities
regarding the patients served by health centers.
HRSA received public comment to the Federal Register notice
``Bureau of Primary Health Care Uniform Data System'' published on May
5, 2017, at 82 FR 21253. We have taken the commenter's suggestions into
consideration and have made appropriate adjustments to the data
collection instruments.
The UDS data collection will be revised in six ways.
To support continued efforts to standardize data
collection and reduce the burden per respondent of reporting for health
centers, HRSA is updating the clinical quality measures in table 6B and
7 to align with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
electronic clinical quality measures (e-CQMs) designated for the 2018
reporting period.
Poor glycemic control is defined as HbA1c >9% per the CMS
quality programs and e-specifications. Although clinical
recommendations (e.g., American Diabetes Association) suggest that
people with diabetes should aim to have an HbA1c <=7% (or HbA1c<8%),
the CMS e-specification only accounts for ``poor diabetes control.''
Therefore, HRSA is removing this column to be consistent with the
Healthy People 2020 national benchmark, CMS eCQMs, and to reduce
reporting burden.
Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition assesses
a health center's approach to patient-centered care. HRSA routinely
receives PCMH recognition data from national quality recognition
bodies. Therefore, HRSA is removing this question to reduce reporting
burden.
Telehealth is increasingly used as a method of health care
delivery for the health center patient population, especially hard-to-
reach patients living in geographically isolated communities.
Collecting information on telehealth capacity and use of telehealth is
essential for delivering technical assistance to health centers and
assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary
health care services. Based on the uniqueness of telehealth data and
its introduction into the UDS system, HRSA is proposing questions that
more precisely describe health center efforts in this area.
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) has been proven to be
an effective treatment option for substance abuse disorder. With the
enactment of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016,
Public Law 114-198, opioid treatment prescribing privileges have been
extended beyond physicians to include certain qualifying nurse
practitioners (NPs) and physicians' assistants (PAs). As a result, HRSA
is updating the MAT for Opioid Use Disorder question in Appendix E of
the UDS to include NPs and PAs who have received an appropriate waiver
to dispense narcotic drugs.
In 2016, 98.7% of HRSA supported grantees reported
adoption and use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The question in
Appendix D regarding Meaningful Use attestation stages captures precise
data regarding health center participation in the program. HRSA is
updating this question to align with the CMS EHR Incentive Program
Updates pertaining to attestation titles.
Likely Respondents: The respondents will be HRSA BPHC Health Center
Program grantees, look-alikes, and BHW NEPQR Program recipients funded
under the practice priority areas listed under PHSA Sec. 831(b).
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.
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Universal Report................ 1,471 1 1,471 168 247,128
Grant Report.................... 504 1 504 21 10,584
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Total....................... 1,975 .............. 1,975 .............. 257,712
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Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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