[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 203 (Friday, October 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 64340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-25737]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[Document Identifier: HHS-ONC-17577-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the National Coordinator for 
Health IT (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services, has submitted 
an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for 
a new collection. Comments submitted during the first public review of 
this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from 
the public on this ICR during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before November 19, 
2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via 
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the Information Collection Request Title 
and document identifier HHS-ONC-17577-30D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: National Survey on Health 
Information Exchange in Clinical Laboratories.
    Abstract: ONC seeks approval to collect key data from a relatively 
small sample of clinical laboratories nationwide for the Evaluation of 
the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program. 
The National Survey on Health Information Exchange in Clinical 
Laboratories will assess and evaluate the electronic transfer of health 
information from clinical laboratories to ordering physicians. It will 
focus on two key measures: (1) Percentage of laboratory facilities that 
are able to send structured lab results electronically to ordering 
physicians and (2) percentage of lab results that are currently being 
sent electronically in coded format to ordering physicians.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: A key goal of the State 
Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program is to promote 
the electronic exchange of structured test results from clinical 
laboratories to healthcare providers. ONC will use these survey 
findings to develop a comprehensive understanding of the baseline level 
of laboratory information exchange in order to inform program 
activities to promote laboratory information exchange and provide more 
targeted assistance to states and territories in developing their 
laboratory information exchange strategies.
    Likely Respondents: There will be two similar versions of the 
questionnaire--one for hospital-based labs and one for independent 
labs.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
           Form name                 Type of         Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                   respondent       respondents     respondent      (in hours)         hours
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Hospital-Based Laboratory       Hospital-Based             2,729               1           20/60             910
 Survey on Health Information    Laboratories.
 Exchange.
Independent Laboratory Survey   Independent                1,963               1        17.70/60             579
 on Health Information           Laboratories.
 Exchange.
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    Total.....................  ................           4,692               1        19.04/60           1,489
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Keith A. Tucker,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-25737 Filed 10-18-12; 8:45 am]
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