[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36074-36075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14804]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


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

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than July 25, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Information Collection Request Title: Rural Health Information 
Technology (HIT) Workforce Program Performance Measures.
    OMB No.: 0915-xxxx--New.
    Abstract: The purpose of the Rural HIT Workforce Program is to 
support formal rural health networks that focus on activities relating 
to the recruitment, education, training, and retention of HIT 
specialists. This program will also provide support to rural health 
networks that can leverage and enhance existing HIT training materials 
to develop formal training programs, which will provide instructional 
opportunities to current health care staff, local displaced workers, 
rural residents, veterans, and other potential students. These formal 
training programs will result in the development of a cadre of HIT 
workers who can help rural hospitals and clinics implement and maintain 
systems such as electronic health records (EHR), telehealth, home 
monitoring, and mobile health technology; and meet EHR meaningful use 
standards.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data useful to the program 
and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by 
Congress under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 
1993 (Pub. L. 103-62). These measures cover the principal topic areas 
of interest to the Office of Rural Health Policy, including: (a) 
Service area; (b) demographics; (c) network; (d) sustainability; (e) 
access to education; (f) education and training; and (g) workforce 
recruitment and retention. Several measures will be used for this 
program. These measures will speak to the Office of Rural Health 
Policy's progress toward meeting the goals set.
    Summary of Prior Comments and Agency Response: A 60-day Federal 
Register notice was published in the Federal Register on February 11, 
2014 (see, 79 FR 8197). There were no comments.
    Likely Respondents: Rural Health Information Technology Workforce 
Program award recipients.
    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.

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                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden per     Total  burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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Rural Health Information                      15               1              15             3.6              54
 Technology (HIT) Workforce
 Program Performance Measures...
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    Total.......................              15               1              15             3.6              54
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    Dated: June 19, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-14804 Filed 6-24-14; 8:45 am]
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