Department of Health and Human Services September 6, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Health Resources and Services Administration published a document in the Federal Register on August 11, 2006, concerning changes to the organization and functions of the Office of the Administrator (RA) and the HIV/AIDS Bureau (RV). The document omitted information regarding movement of the Center for Quality and also erroneously included the Telehealth function within the HIV/AIDS Bureau, which was moved to the Office of Health Information Technology (RT) on 12/27/05 (70 FR 76463-76465).

Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on June 13, 2006, page 34142, and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This notice announces the ninth meeting of the American Health Information Community Chronic Care Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.).

This notice announces the first meeting of the American Health Information Community Quality Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.). The Quality Workgroup was created to make recommendations to the American Health Information Community on how HIT can: Provide data for the development of quality measures that are useful to patients and others in the health care industry; automate the measurement and reporting of a comprehensive current and future set of quality measures; and accelerate the use of clinical decision support that will improve performance using quality measures. The workgroup's initial charge will be to make recommendations to the American Health Information Community that specify how certified health information technology should capture, aggregate, and report data for a core set of ambulatory and in-patient quality measures. Date/Time: September 22, 2006, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage for companies and may also be available for licensing.