[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52953-52954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21497]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Project

    National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy--New--
Public Health Surveillance Program Office (PHSPO); Office of 
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to 
disseminate nationally notifiable condition information. CDC's 
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes incidence tables for 
nationally notifiable conditions reported through the National 
Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and other surveillance 
data sources to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System 
(NNDSS).
    NEDSS (OMB 0920-0728, expiration date: 2/28/2010) is an internet-
based infrastructure for public health surveillance data exchange that 
uses specific Public Health Information Network (PHIN) and NEDSS 
electronic data and information standards to advance the development of 
efficient, integrated, and interoperable surveillance systems at 
federal, state and local levels. CDC's proposed Public Health 
Surveillance Program Office (PHSPO) is responsible for establishing and 
managing the national reporting system of epidemiologic data for 
notifiable conditions (diseases) via NEDSS.
    Case notification messaging for most of the nationally notifiable 
conditions (77 infectious conditions as of August 2009) will eventually 
be supported by the standard Health Level 7 v2.5 (HL7) message format. 
The HL7 message format requires a Message Mapping Guide (MMG)--
developed by the NEDSS and NNDSS programs, in collaboration with state 
and federal subject matter experts--to implement case notification to 
CDC via NEDSS. At present, seven MMGs are available for implementation 
by jurisdictions, and current NEDSS resources support the development 
of three new MMGs per year. A jurisdiction's implementation of a MMG 
requires an average of four months per MMG, and a jurisdiction could 
potentially implement up to three MMGs a year. In most instances, 
National Center for Public Health Informatics' (NCPHI) programmatic and 
technical expertise is required to support this process at the 
jurisdictional level.
    The National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy

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Questionnaire has been developed by the NEDSS program to gather 
information needed for formulating a technical and project management 
support strategy for 57 reporting jurisdictions (i.e., 50 states, 5 
territories, and 2 cities (New York City, NY and Washington, DC)) as 
they implement NEDSS messaging using MMGs. A jurisdiction's response to 
the questionnaire will be used by the NEDSS implementation and 
management teams to assess the jurisdiction's IT system environment and 
capacity and help determine the project schedule and level of human and 
technical support needed to complete the jurisdiction's implementation 
of a nationally notifiable condition message. NEDSS infrastructure 
implementation support includes, but is not limited to implementing 
NEDSS Message Subscription Service (MSS) and NEDSS Messaging Solution 
(NMS) software in requesting jurisdictions; providing MSS and NMS 
software training and ongoing technical support; and distributing 
funding via the CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity cooperative 
agreement.
    Questionnaires will be distributed to jurisdictions that initiate 
MMG implementation for a condition; therefore, the maximum annual 
frequency of responses per jurisdiction is three. The NEDSS team will 
request the jurisdiction to voluntarily complete the questionnaire, but 
a response is not a pre-requisite for support.
    There is no cost to respondents other than their time to 
participate in the survey. The total estimated annual burden hours are 
114.

                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
              Respondents                       Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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State, Territory and Local Public       National Notifiable                   57               3           40/60
 Health Department.                      Condition Messaging
                                         Support Strategy
                                         Questionnaire.
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    Dated: August 23, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-21497 Filed 8-27-10; 8:45 am]
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