[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 77 (Monday, April 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 18920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08188]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: 0955-New-30D]


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

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 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 Secretary (OS), 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 May 24, 2017.

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) 795-7714.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the Information Collection Request Title 
and document identifier 0955-New-30D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: National Council for 
Behavioral Health's Information Technology Survey.
    Abstract: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT 
(ONC) in coordination with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) seeks to conduct a survey in 2017 of SAMSHA to 
examine the adoption and use of health IT as well as interoperability 
across community behavioral health care settings. Data from the survey 
will help ONC and SAMSHA monitor progress and enhance programs and 
policy to improve the use of health IT and expand interoperability 
across these settings. In 2015, ONC outlined a strategy by which both 
private and public stakeholders would work together to improve 
interoperability. This strategy called for measuring and reporting on 
the state of interoperability across the care continuum, including for 
behavioral health care providers; however, there are no recent national 
data available for this care setting. Addressing this gap is critical 
in order to also determine these providers' readiness to serve as 
partners in delivery system reform efforts that are underway and that 
will be expanded with the implementation of Medicare Access and CHIP 
Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). Although behavioral health care 
providers won't be participating in the MACRA initiative at the outset, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services may include behavioral 
health providers, such as psychologists and social workers to 
participate in value-based payment initiatives such as the Merit-Based 
Incentive Payment System (MIPs) in the future.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: This data collection 
effort will allow for us to assess health IT adoption and 
interoperability progress since 2015, enable comparisons to physician 
and hospital settings and contribute to strategic efforts to improve 
behavioral healthcare providers' adoption and use of health IT.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents will include mid-level and 
executive level staff (IT Directors, CIO, and CEOs) of behavioral 
healthcare organizations that are involved in the management and 
maintenance of their organization's health IT infrastructure.
    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                        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)         hours
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National Council for Behavioral Health's                     533               1           20/60             178
 Information Technology Survey..................
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    Total.......................................             533               1           20/60             178
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Terry S. Clark,
Asst Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-08188 Filed 4-21-17; 8:45 am]
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