[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 44 (Monday, March 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11815-11816]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04984]


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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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) will submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 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. To request a copy of the clearance requests 
submitted to OMB for review, email [email protected] or call the HRSA 
Reports Clearance Office at (301) 443-1984.

DATES: Deadline: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than 
April 6, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to the desk officer for HRSA, either by 
email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please 
direct all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for 
HRSA.''

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Information Collection Request Title: Health Center Controlled 
Networks (OMB No. 0915-0360) Extension.
    Abstract: One goal of the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) is to ensure that all Health Center Program 
grantees effectively implement health information technology (HIT) 
systems that enable all providers to adopt and implement HIT, including 
Electronic Health Records (EHRs); to become meaningful users of EHRs 
and use HIT systems to increase access to care, improve quality of 
care, and reduce the costs of care delivered.

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The Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN) Program serves as a major 
component of HRSA's HIT initiative to support these goals. The HCCN 
model focuses on the integration of certain functions and the sharing 
of skills, resources, and data to improve health center operations and 
care provision, and generating efficiencies and economies of scale. 
Through this grant, HCCNs will provide support for the adoption and 
implementation of HIT, including meaningful use of EHRs, to improve the 
quality of care provided by existing Health Center Program grantees 
(i.e., Section 330 funded health centers) by engaging in the following 
program components:
     Adoption and Implementation: Assist participating health 
centers with effectively adopting and implementing certified EHR 
technology.
     Meaningful Use: Support participating health centers in 
meeting Meaningful Use requirements and accessing incentive payments 
under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive 
Programs.
     Quality Improvement (QI): Advance participating health 
centers' QI initiatives to improve clinical and operational quality, 
including their obtaining of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) 
recognition.
    HRSA collects and evaluates network outcome measures. HRSA requires 
that HCCNs report such measures to HRSA in annual work plan updates as 
part of their annual, non-competing continuation progress reports 
through an electronic reporting system. The work plan includes 
information on grantees' plans and progress on the following:
     Adoption and Implementation of HIT (including EHR);
     Attainment of Meaningful Use Requirements; and
     Improvement of quality measures (e.g., Healthy People 2020 
clinical quality measures, PCMH recognition status, etc.).
    The annual, non-competing continuation progress reports describe 
each grantee's progress in achieving key activity goals such as quality 
improvement, data access and exchange, efficiency and effectiveness of 
network services, and the ability to track and monitor patient 
outcomes, as well as emerging needs, challenges and barriers 
encountered customer satisfaction, and plans to meet goals for the next 
year. Grantees submit their work plan updates and annual, non-competing 
continuation progress reports each fiscal year of the grant; the 
submission and subsequent HRSA approval of each report triggers the 
budget period renewal and release of each subsequent year of funding.
    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.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                    Number of     Responses  per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
           Form name               respondents      respondent       responses       response          hours
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Work Plan Update...............              43                1              43            10.9           468.7
Annual Progress Report.........              43                1              43            44.5          1913.5
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    Total......................              86  ...............  ..............  ..............          2382.2
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Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2016-04984 Filed 3-4-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P