[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1440-1441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-144]


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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: Health Center Controlled Networks Progress Reports 
(OMB No. 0915-0315)--Revision

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) collects 
network outcome measures, conducts evaluation of those measures, and 
has an electronic reporting system for the following types of grantees: 
Health Information Technology Planning Grants, Electronic Health Record 
Implementation (including High Impact Electronic Health Records 
Implementation) for Health Center Controlled Networks, and Health 
Information Technology Innovations for Health Center Controlled 
Networks. In order to help carry out its mission, HRSA created a set of 
performance measures that grantees use to evaluate the effectiveness of 
their service programs and monitor their progress through the use of 
performance reporting data.
    Grantees report to HRSA on their grants to accomplish the following 
goals: Increase access to needed data and services; improve quality, 
efficiency and effectiveness of network services; and enhance ability 
to track and monitor patient outcomes. Grantees submit their progress 
reports in a mid-

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year report and an accumulative annual progress report each fiscal year 
of the grant. The increase in burden since 2007 is due to an increase 
in the number of grantees (46 to 89) and an increase in the hours per 
response. The increase in the hours per response is due to a re-
estimation of burden for grantees.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
           Application              respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Planning........................               1               2               2              10              20
Electronic Health Records                     56               2             112              18           2,016
 Implementation.................
Innovations.....................              32               2              64              18           1,152
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    Total.......................              89  ..............             178  ..............           3,188
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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: January 4, 2011.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-144 Filed 1-7-11; 8:45 am]
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