[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68610-68611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28091]


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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, e-mail 
[email protected] or 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: Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Uniform Data 
System (OMB Clearance No. 0915-0193)--Revision

    The Uniform Data System (UDS) contains the annual reporting 
requirements for the cluster of primary care grantees funded by the 
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The UDS includes 
reporting requirements for grantees of the following primary care 
programs: Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care 
for the Homeless, Public Housing Primary Care, and other grantees under 
Section 330. The authorizing statute is section 330 of

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the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
    HRSA collects data in the UDS which are used to ensure compliance 
with legislative mandates and to report to Congress and policymakers on 
program accomplishments. To meet these objectives, BPHC requires a core 
set of data collected annually that is appropriate for monitoring and 
evaluating performance and reporting on annual trends. The UDS will be 
revised in several ways. Certain data elements are added for staffing 
and utilization and for diagnoses, services, and tests. Specifications 
for current clinical measures are revised to align with those of 
national standard setting organizations. Revenue sources are updated to 
include new federal revenue sources. A limited number of questions are 
asked about Electronic Health Record (EHR) reporting capabilities. 
Also, a limited number of clinical measures will be added consistent 
with identified national priorities. These new measures are included in 
the UDS data collection request in order to allow advance time for 
health centers to change data collection systems.

                             Estimates of Annualized Reporting Burden Are as Follows
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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
         Type of report             respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Universal report................           1,181               1           1,181              71          83,851
Grant report....................             328               1             328              18           5,904
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    Total.......................           1,181  ..............           1,509  ..............          89,755
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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 28, 2010.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-28091 Filed 11-5-10; 8:45 am]
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