[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21776-21777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8758]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for ``Reporting
Patient Safety Events Challenge''
AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, HHS.
Award Approving Official: Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) listed by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) create a safe environment for
health care providers to collect, aggregate, and analyze data without
fear of legal discovery. Hospitals struggle to increase internal
incident reporting, especially by busy physicians and nurses, and to
create effective systems for the quality and risk management staff to
do root cause analyses and follow-up. The ``Reporting Patient Safety
Events Challenge'' asks multi-disciplinary teams to develop an
application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events,
whether implemented in hospital or ambulatory settings. The solution
needs to make it easier for any individual to file a report
electronically, using Common Formats but allowing for additional
elements and narratives. It must allow the hospital quality and risk
management staff to add information from follow-up investigation,
submit reports as appropriate to PSOs, the state, or the FDA (which may
differ, and need to be tracked separately), and track follow-up
activities.
The statutory authority for this challenge competition is Section
105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-
358).
DATES: Effective on April 11, 2012. Challenge submission period ends
July 23, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Wong, 202-720-2866; Wil Yu, 202-
690-5920.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Subject of Challenge Competition
The ``Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge'' asks multi-
disciplinary teams to develop an application that facilitates the
reporting of patient safety events, whether implemented in hospital or
ambulatory settings. This application would:
Increase the ease of reporting patient safety events to
the provider or parent organization;
Enable providers to import relevant EMR, PHR, and other
electronic information, including screen shots, to the patient safety
report and, in turn, submit an AHRQ Common Formats-compliant report to
one or more PSOs;
Capture useful demographic and other relevant information
from each patient including age, gender, race, and relevant diagnoses;
Capture information about the type of organization
submitting the report using AHRQ's PSO Information format;
Reduce burden of reporting by enabling the provider or
parent organization to have the option of submitting information in the
patient safety report to non-PSO public health or health oversight
organizations, including state or federal programs or accrediting or
certifying bodies.
Be platform-agnostic; and
Leverage and extend NwHIN standards and services
including, but not limited to, transport (Direct, web services),
content (Transitions of Care, CCD/CCR), and standardized vocabularies.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, an individual
or entity--
(1) Shall have registered to participate in the competition under
the rules
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promulgated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section.
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall be incorporated in and
maintain a primary place of business in the United States, and in the
case of an individual, whether participating singly or in a group,
shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
(4) May not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty hours.
(6) Shall not be an employee of Office of the National Coordinator
for Health IT.
(7) Federal grantees may not use Federal funds to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications unless consistent with the purpose of their
grant award.
(8) Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract
to develop COMPETES Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in
support of a COMPETES Act challenge submission.
An individual or entity shall not be deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
Entrants must agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from my participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Entrants must also agree to indemnify the Federal Government
against third party claims for damages arising from or related to
competition activities.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this challenge participants should:
[ssquf] Access the www.challenge.gov Web site and search for the
``Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge''.
[ssquf] Access the ONC Investing in Innovation (i2) Challenge Web
site at:
[cir] http://www.health2challenge.org/onc-i2-challenges/.
[cir] A registration link for the challenge can be found on the
landing page under the challenge description.
Amount of the Prize
[ssquf] First Prize: $50,000.
[ssquf] Second Prize: $15,000.
[ssquf] Third Prize: $5,000.
Awards may be subject to Federal income taxes and HHS will comply
with IRS withholding and reporting requirements, where applicable.
Payment of the Prize
Prize will be paid by contractor.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be Selected
The ONC review panel will make selections based upon the following
criteria:
1. Effectiveness of the system in facilitating patient safety event
reporting including its compliance with AHRQ's Common Formats.
2. Usability and design from the standpoint of all stakeholders.
3. Ability to integrate with electronic health records and other
HIT data sources.
4. Creativity and innovation.
5. Leverage NwHIN standards including transport, content, and
vocabularies.
Additional Information
Ownership of intellectual property is determined by the following:
[ssquf] Each entrant retains title and full ownership in and to
their submission. Entrants expressly reserve all intellectual property
rights not expressly granted under the challenge agreement.
[ssquf] By participating in the challenge, each entrant hereby
irrevocably grants to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, non-
exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, license and right to reproduce,
publically perform, publically display, and use the Submission to the
extent necessary to administer the challenge, and to publically perform
and publically display the Submission, including, without limitation,
for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the challenge.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: April 5, 2012.
Farzad Mostashari,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-8758 Filed 4-10-12; 8:45 am]
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