[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 24, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 60378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-20939]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Office of Health Information Technology, Health 
Center Controlled Networks Progress Reports--New

    The Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT), Division of 
State and Community Assistance (DSCA), plans to collect network outcome 
measures, conduct evaluation of those measures, and create an 
electronic reporting system for the following new 2007 grant 
opportunities: Health Information Technology Planning Grants, 
Electronic Health Record Implementation Health Center Controlled 
Networks (HCCN), Health Information Technology Innovations for Health 
Center Controlled Networks, and High Impact Electronic Health Records 
Implementation for Health Center Controlled Networks and Large Multi 
Site Health Centers. In order to help carry out its mission, DSCA has 
created a set of performance measures that grantees will use to 
evaluate the effectiveness of their service programs and monitor their 
progress through the use of performance reporting data.
    OHIT has developed an electronic performance measurement reporting 
instrument with HRSA's Office of Information Technology. The instrument 
will accomplish the following goals: monitor improved access to needed 
services, evaluate the productivity and efficiency of the networks, and 
monitor patient outcome measures. Grantees will submit their Progress 
Reports in a mid-year report and an accumulative annual progress report 
each fiscal year of the grant.
    The estimates of burden are as follows:

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                                                                    Estimated
                             Form                                   number of       Responses per   Total  responses     Hours  per       Total burden
                                                                   respondents       respondent                           response            hours
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HCCN Progress Reports.........................................                46                 2                92             6 hrs               552
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: October 18, 2007.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E7-20939 Filed 10-23-07; 8:45 am]
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