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Dated: April 3, 2018.
Lori Roche,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of the
Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Telehealth
Resource Center Performance
Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915–
0361, Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 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 ICR must be
received no later than June 8, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail Lisa
Wright-Solomon, HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10–
29, 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
instruments, email Lisa Wright-Solomon
at 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:
Telehealth Resource Center Performance
Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915–
0361, Revision.
Abstract: To ensure the best use of
public funds and to meet the
Government Performance Review Act
requirements, the Office for the
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Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) in
collaboration with the Telehealth
Resource Centers (TRCs) created a set of
performance measures that grantees can
use to evaluate the technical assistance
services provided by the TRCs. Grantee
goals are to provide customized
telehealth technical assistance across
the country. The TRCs provide technical
assistance to health care organizations,
health care networks and health care
providers in the implementation of costeffective telehealth programs to serve
rural and medically underserved areas
and populations.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: In order to evaluate
existing programs, data are submitted to
OAT through HRSA’s Performance
Improvement Management System
(PIMS). The data are used to measure
the effectiveness of the technical
assistance. There are two data reporting
periods each year; during these biannual
reporting periods data are reported for
the previous six months of activity.
Programs have approximately six weeks
to enter their data into the PIMS system
during each biannual reporting period.
The instrument was developed with
the following four goals in mind:
1. Improving access to needed
services,
2. reducing rural practitioner
isolation,
3. improving health system
productivity and efficiency, and
4. improving patient outcomes.
The TRCs currently report on existing
performance data elements using PIMS.
The performance measures are designed
to assess how the TRC program is
meeting its goals to:
1. Expand the availability of
telehealth services in underserved
communities,
2. Improve the quality, efficiency, and
effectiveness of telehealth services, and
3. Promote knowledge exchange and
dissemination about efficient and
effective telehealth practices and
technology.
4. Establish sustainable technical
assistance (TA) centers providing
quality, unbiased TA for the
development and expansion of effective
and efficient telehealth services in
underserved communities.
Additionally, the PIMS tool allows
OAT to:
1. Determine the value added from the
TRC Cooperative Agreement;
2. Justify budget requests;
3. Collect uniform, consistent data
which enables OAT to monitor
programs;
4. Provide guidance to grantees on
important indicators to track over time
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for their own internal program
management;
5. Measure performance relative to the
mission of OAT/HRSA as well as
individual goals and objectives of the
program;
6. Identify topics of interest for future
special studies; and
7. Identify changes in healthcare
needs within rural communities,
allowing programs to shift focus in
order to meet those needs.
This renewal request proposes
changes to existing measures. After
compiling data from the previous tool
over the last three years, OAT
conducted an analysis of the data and
compared the findings with the program
needs. Based on the findings, the
measures are being revised to better
capture information necessary to
measure the effectiveness of the
program. The measure changes include:
Additional demographic details from
organizations requesting technical
assistance, streamlined methods of
inquiry, additional topics of technical
assistance inquiries aligning with the
current telehealth landscape,
streamlined types of services provided
by the grantees, deletion of client
satisfaction survey results, and deletion
of telehealth sites developed as a result
of grantee technical assistance.
Likely Respondents: The likely
respondents will be telehealth
associations, telehealth providers, rural
health providers, clinicians that deliver
services via telehealth, technical
assistance providers, research
organizations, and academic medical
centers.
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:
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Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Telehealth Resource Center Performance Data Collection
Tool ...................................................................................
14
42
588
0.07
41
Total ..............................................................................
14
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588
........................
41
Dated: April 3, 2018.
Lori Roche,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of the
Executive Secretariat.
4. Access to Care Services and
Support to Patients;
5. Vaccine and Therapeutics; and
6. Other Tick-Borne Diseases and Coinfections.
DATES: May 10, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to
6:30 p.m., Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: This will be a virtual
meeting that is held via webcast.
Members of the public may attend the
meeting via webcast. Instructions for
attending this virtual meeting will be
posted one week prior to the meeting at:
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisorycommittees/tickbornedisease/
index.html.
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Infectious Disease Policy, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services; via email at tickbornedisease@
hhs.gov or by phone at 202–795–7697.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Working Group invites public comment
on issues related to the Working Group’s
charge. Comments may be provided
over the phone during the meeting or in
writing. Persons who wish to provide
comments by phone should review
directions at https://www.hhs.gov/ash/
advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/
meetings/ before submitting a
request via email at tickbornedisease@
hhs.gov on or before May 3, 2018. Phone
comments will be limited to three
minutes each to accommodate as many
speakers as possible. A total of 60
minutes will be allocated to public
comments. If more requests are received
than can be accommodated, speakers
will be randomly selected. The nature of
the comments will not be considered in
making this selection. Public comments
may also be provided in writing.
Individuals who would like to provide
written comment should review
directions at https://www.hhs.gov/ash/
advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/
meetings/ before sending
their comments to tickbornedisease@
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Background and Authority: The TickBorne Disease Working Group was
established on August 10, 2017, in
accordance with section 2062 of the 21st
Century Cures Act, and the Federal
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.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease
Working Group
Office of HIV/AIDS and
Infectious Disease Policy, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of
the Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) announces the
fourth ‘‘on-line’’ meeting of the TickBorne Disease Working Group (Working
Group) on May 10, 2018, from 8:30 a.m.
to 6:30 p.m., Eastern Time. For this
fourth meeting, the Working Group will
focus on the findings and basis for the
draft reports from the work of the six
Subcommittee Working Groups that
were established on December 12, 2017.
These subcommittees were established
to assist the Working Group with the
development of the report to Congress
and the HHS Secretary as required by
the 21st Century Cures Act. The
subcommittees are:
1. Disease Vectors, Surveillance and
Prevention (includes epidemiology of
tick-borne diseases);
2. Pathogenesis, Transmission, and
Treatment;
3. Testing and Diagnostics (including
laboratory-based diagnoses and clinicaldiagnoses);
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Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.,
as amended, to provide expertise and
review all HHS efforts related to tickborne diseases to help ensure
interagency coordination and minimize
overlap, examine research priorities,
and identify and address unmet needs.
In addition, the Working Group will
report to the Secretary and Congress on
their findings and any recommendations
for the federal response to tick-borne
disease prevention, treatment, and
research, and addressing gaps in those
areas.
Dated: April 2, 2018.
James Berger,
Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease
Policy, Alternate Designated Federal Officer,
Tick-Borne Disease Working Group.
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meeting of the National Advisory
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The meeting will be open to the
public as indicated below, with
attendance limited to space available.
Individuals who plan to attend and
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in advance of the meeting.
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as amended. The journals as potential
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Telehealth Resource Center Performance
Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915-0361, Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 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 ICR must be received no later than June 8,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail Lisa
Wright-Solomon, HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10-
29, 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 instruments, email Lisa Wright-Solomon at [email protected] 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: Telehealth Resource Center
Performance Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915-0361, Revision.
Abstract: To ensure the best use of public funds and to meet the
Government Performance Review Act requirements, the Office for the
Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) in collaboration with the Telehealth
Resource Centers (TRCs) created a set of performance measures that
grantees can use to evaluate the technical assistance services provided
by the TRCs. Grantee goals are to provide customized telehealth
technical assistance across the country. The TRCs provide technical
assistance to health care organizations, health care networks and
health care providers in the implementation of cost-effective
telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and
populations.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: In order to evaluate
existing programs, data are submitted to OAT through HRSA's Performance
Improvement Management System (PIMS). The data are used to measure the
effectiveness of the technical assistance. There are two data reporting
periods each year; during these biannual reporting periods data are
reported for the previous six months of activity. Programs have
approximately six weeks to enter their data into the PIMS system during
each biannual reporting period.
The instrument was developed with the following four goals in mind:
1. Improving access to needed services,
2. reducing rural practitioner isolation,
3. improving health system productivity and efficiency, and
4. improving patient outcomes.
The TRCs currently report on existing performance data elements
using PIMS. The performance measures are designed to assess how the TRC
program is meeting its goals to:
1. Expand the availability of telehealth services in underserved
communities,
2. Improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of telehealth
services, and
3. Promote knowledge exchange and dissemination about efficient and
effective telehealth practices and technology.
4. Establish sustainable technical assistance (TA) centers
providing quality, unbiased TA for the development and expansion of
effective and efficient telehealth services in underserved communities.
Additionally, the PIMS tool allows OAT to:
1. Determine the value added from the TRC Cooperative Agreement;
2. Justify budget requests;
3. Collect uniform, consistent data which enables OAT to monitor
programs;
4. Provide guidance to grantees on important indicators to track
over time for their own internal program management;
5. Measure performance relative to the mission of OAT/HRSA as well
as individual goals and objectives of the program;
6. Identify topics of interest for future special studies; and
7. Identify changes in healthcare needs within rural communities,
allowing programs to shift focus in order to meet those needs.
This renewal request proposes changes to existing measures. After
compiling data from the previous tool over the last three years, OAT
conducted an analysis of the data and compared the findings with the
program needs. Based on the findings, the measures are being revised to
better capture information necessary to measure the effectiveness of
the program. The measure changes include: Additional demographic
details from organizations requesting technical assistance, streamlined
methods of inquiry, additional topics of technical assistance inquiries
aligning with the current telehealth landscape, streamlined types of
services provided by the grantees, deletion of client satisfaction
survey results, and deletion of telehealth sites developed as a result
of grantee technical assistance.
Likely Respondents: The likely respondents will be telehealth
associations, telehealth providers, rural health providers, clinicians
that deliver services via telehealth, technical assistance providers,
research organizations, and academic medical centers.
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:
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Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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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: April 3, 2018.
Lori Roche,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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