Agency Information Collection Request; 30-Day Public Comment Request, 1422-1423 [2022-00237]
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HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer at (301) 443–9094.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information collection request title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Telehealth Resource Center Performance
Measurement Tool OMB No. 0915–
0361—Extension
Abstract: HRSA requests an extension
of their Telehealth Resource Center
Performance Measurement Tool. The
Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC)
deliver telehealth technical assistance.
There are two types of HRSA TRC
programs:
• Two National Telehealth Resource
Center Programs focus on policy
and technology.
• 12 Regional Telehealth Resource
Center Programs host activities and
provide resources to rural and
underserved areas.
The HRSA Telehealth Resource
Centers:
• Provide training and support
• Publicize information and research
findings
• Support collaboration and
partnerships
• Promote effective partnerships
• Promote the use of telehealth by
providing health care information and
education to the public and medical
specialists.
The TRCs share expertise through
individual consults, training, webinars,
conference presentations, and the web.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: In order to evaluate
existing programs, data are submitted to
HRSA’s Office for the Advancement of
Telehealth (OAT) through HRSA’s
Performance Improvement Management
System (PIMS). The data are used to
measure the effectiveness of the
technical assistance (TA). There is one
data reporting period each year; during
these reporting periods, data are
reported for the previous twelve months
of activity. Programs have
approximately six weeks to enter their
data into the PIMS system during each
annual reporting period.
The instrument was developed with
the following four goals in mind:
1. Improving access to needed
services,
2. Reducing rural and underserved
population 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:
• Expand the availability of telehealth
services in underserved communities;
• Improve the quality, efficiency, and
effectiveness of telehealth services;
• Promote knowledge exchange and
dissemination about efficient and
effective telehealth practices and
technology; and
• Establish sustainable 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:
• Determine the value added from the
TRC Cooperative Agreement;
• Justify budget requests;
• Collect uniform, consistent data
which enables OAT to monitor
programs;
• Provide guidance to grantees on
important indicators to track over time
for their own internal program
management;
• Measure performance relative to the
mission of OAT/HRSA as well as
individual goals and objectives of the
program;
• Identify topics of interest for future
special studies; and
• Identify changes in health care
needs within rural and underserved
communities, allowing programs to shift
focus in order to meet those needs.
Likely Respondents: The likely
respondents will be telehealth
associations, telehealth providers, rural
and underserved 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
Number of
respondents
Form name
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Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement
Tool ...................................................................................
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
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responses per
respondent
Total
responses
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588
588
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
burden hours
0.07
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technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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In compliance with the
requirement of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the
Secretary (OS), Department of Health
and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of a proposed
collection for public comment. Since
March 29, 2020, the U.S. government
has been collecting data from hospitals
and states to understand health care
system stress, capacity, capabilities, and
the number of patients hospitalized due
to COVID–19. As the COVID–19
response continues to evolve, Federal
needs for data are also evolving. The
data elements within the collection are
being altered to best meet the needs of
the current response to COVID–19. This
alteration includes the addition of data
elements collecting more detailed
information on pediatric
hospitalizations, which will help to
better understand pediatric hospital
surge as well as inform epidemiologic
surveillance to inform potential
response actions. The alteration also
includes making various data elements
inactive for federal data collection based
on current and anticipated future
federal response needs, as well as
reduce burden where possible. While
inactive, these data elements will still
be considered as remaining part of the
data collection to allow jurisdictions to
continue collecting the information if it
is needed for their unique response
needs.
SUMMARY:
Comments on the ICR must be
received on or before February 10, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice. To be assured consideration,
DATES:
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected, and the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology to minimize the
information collection burden.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (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.
Title of the Collection: U.S. Healthcare
COVID–19 Portal.
Type of Collection: Emergency
revision, substantial change.
OMB No.: 0990–0478—U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) Office of the Secretary.
This notice also includes changing the
data collection owner from the HHS
Office of the Chief Information Officer
(OCIO) to the HHS Assistant Secretary
for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
Abstract: The Unified Hospital Data
Surveillance System (UHDSS) was
created in 2020 to monitor COVID–19
health care system capacity and surge
and inform epidemiological
surveillance. The collection requires
daily responses from all hospitals in the
U.S., with some jurisdictions (state,
local, tribal, or territorial governments)
compiling submissions for hospitals
within their locality.
comments and recommendations must
be submitted in any one of the following
ways:
1. Electronically. You may send your
comments electronically to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’
to find the information collection
document(s) that are accepting
comments.
2. By regular mail. www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sherrette Funn, Sherrette.Funn@hhs.gov
or (202) 795–7714. When submitting
comments or requesting information,
please include the document identifier
0990–0478–30D and project title for
reference.
This
Federal Register notice seeks public
comment on the emergency revision
with substantive changes recently
submitted to OMB for review and
approval. These comments will be
reviewed and taken into consideration if
the Department intends to make any
revisions to the information collection
request approved under [0990–0478].
Interested persons are invited to submit
comments regarding the aforementioned
emergency revision with substantive
changes or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including:
The necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, the accuracy of the estimated
burden, ways to enhance the quality,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Number of
respondents
Number
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Type of respondent
Form name
Hospitals (excluding Psychiatric and
Rehabilitation Hospitals).
Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Hospitals.
Infusion Centers and Outpatient
Clinics reporting Inventory & use
of therapeutics (MABs).
HHS Teletracking COVID–19 Portal
5200
365
1.25
2,372,500
HHS Teletracking COVID–19 Portal
800
52
1.25
52,000
HHS Teletracking COVID–19 Portal
400
52
0.25
5,200
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........................
2,429,700
Total ...........................................
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Sherrette A. Funn,
Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance
Officer, Office of the Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[Document Identifier OS-0990-0478]
Agency Information Collection Request; 30-Day Public Comment
Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and
Human Services, is publishing the following summary of a proposed
collection for public comment. Since March 29, 2020, the U.S.
government has been collecting data from hospitals and states to
understand health care system stress, capacity, capabilities, and the
number of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. As the COVID-19
response continues to evolve, Federal needs for data are also evolving.
The data elements within the collection are being altered to best meet
the needs of the current response to COVID-19. This alteration includes
the addition of data elements collecting more detailed information on
pediatric hospitalizations, which will help to better understand
pediatric hospital surge as well as inform epidemiologic surveillance
to inform potential response actions. The alteration also includes
making various data elements inactive for federal data collection based
on current and anticipated future federal response needs, as well as
reduce burden where possible. While inactive, these data elements will
still be considered as remaining part of the data collection to allow
jurisdictions to continue collecting the information if it is needed
for their unique response needs.
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before February 10,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice. To be assured consideration, comments and recommendations
must be submitted in any one of the following ways:
1. Electronically. You may send your comments electronically to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for ``Comment or
Submission'' or ``More Search Options'' to find the information
collection document(s) that are accepting comments.
2. By regular mail. www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sherrette Funn, [email protected]
or (202) 795-7714. When submitting comments or requesting information,
please include the document identifier 0990-0478-30D and project title
for reference.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Federal Register notice seeks public
comment on the emergency revision with substantive changes recently
submitted to OMB for review and approval. These comments will be
reviewed and taken into consideration if the Department intends to make
any revisions to the information collection request approved under
[0990-0478]. Interested persons are invited to submit comments
regarding the aforementioned emergency revision with substantive
changes or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including: The necessity and utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of the agency's functions, the
accuracy of the estimated burden, ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be collected, and the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information collection burden.
Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including any of the following subjects: (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.
Title of the Collection: U.S. Healthcare COVID-19 Portal.
Type of Collection: Emergency revision, substantial change.
OMB No.: 0990-0478--U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) Office of the Secretary. This notice also includes changing the
data collection owner from the HHS Office of the Chief Information
Officer (OCIO) to the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response (ASPR).
Abstract: The Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System (UHDSS) was
created in 2020 to monitor COVID-19 health care system capacity and
surge and inform epidemiological surveillance. The collection requires
daily responses from all hospitals in the U.S., with some jurisdictions
(state, local, tribal, or territorial governments) compiling
submissions for hospitals within their locality.
Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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Number Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hospitals (excluding HHS Teletracking 5200 365 1.25 2,372,500
Psychiatric and COVID-19 Portal.
Rehabilitation Hospitals).
Psychiatric and Rehabilitation HHS Teletracking 800 52 1.25 52,000
Hospitals. COVID-19 Portal.
Infusion Centers and HHS Teletracking 400 52 0.25 5,200
Outpatient Clinics reporting COVID-19 Portal.
Inventory & use of
therapeutics (MABs).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 2,429,700
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Sherrette A. Funn,
Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance Officer, Office of the
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-00237 Filed 1-10-22; 8:45 am]
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