[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 2, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18552-18553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07350]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

 [Document Identifier HHS-OS-0990-New-60D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit a new Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB, OS seeks 
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any 
other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before June 2, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 
[email protected] or by calling (202) 690-6162.

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 document identifier HHS-OS-Office of 
the National Coordinator for Health IT: Office of Consumer eHealth OS-
0990-New for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: The Blue Button Connector.
    Abstract: The Blue Button Connector is a Web site that helps 
consumers and patients find their own health information online from 
the entities that collect their information (ie hospitals, physicians, 
labs, immunization registries, state health information exchanges etc). 
The Connector also helps developers build tools that respond to the 
readiness of the market. It also will provide links to apps and tools 
for consumers that use structured electronic health data.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The site's value will 
only increase if more healthcare organizations have the ability to list 
themselves on the Connector as an organization that is providing health 
data back to patients, a patient's designee or caregivers. For this 
reason, it is important to enable the capability for organizations to 
sign up to be listed on the Connector and update their

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profile pages on an ongoing basis as they improve their offerings and 
features to patients. We would like for this capability to exist for no 
more than 3 years.
    Likely Respondents: Any entity providing health services to 
patients and or collecting health information on consumers which 
includes but is not limited to: hospitals, physicians, labs, 
immunization registries, and state health information exchanges. 
Respondents will also include application developers with the 
capability to consume health information in a structured format from a 
patient.
    Burden Statement: Organizations that would like to be listed on the 
Connector will fill out a 3-5 minute survey of nine questions. The 
survey will ask health data holding organizations to provide basic 
information about their access capabilities, reach, contact information 
and links to where patients could go to get their health data. 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
           Type of respondent                Number of        responses per     per response (in   Total burden
                                            respondents         respondent           hours)            hours
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Providers..............................              2,000                  1               3/60          100
Hospitals..............................                500                  1               3/60           25
Labs...................................                 10                  1               3/60             .5
State Immunization Registries..........                  7                  1               3/60             .35
Pharmacies.............................                 10                  1               3/60             .5
State HIEs.............................                 15                  1               3/60             .75
    Total..............................  .................  .................  .................          127
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    OS specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.

Darius Taylor,
Deputy, Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-07350 Filed 4-1-14; 8:45 am]
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