[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 158 (Friday, August 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49660-49661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17787]
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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; Information Collection
Request Title: Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Outcome
Measures, OMB No. 0915-0311--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30
day comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this
notice no later than September 14, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
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: HRSA Telehealth Outcome
Measures OMB No. 0915-0311--Revision.
Abstract: In order to help carry out its mission, the Office for
the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) created a set of performance
measures that grantees can use to evaluate the effectiveness of their
services programs and monitor their progress through the use of
performance reporting data.
A 60-day Notice was published in the Federal Register on March 26,
2020, vol. 85, No. 59; p. 17089. There were no comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: As required by the
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, all federal agencies
must develop strategic plans describing their overall goal and
objectives. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, OAT, has worked
with its grantees to develop performance measures to be used to
evaluate and monitor the progress of the grantees. Grantee goals are
to: Improve access to needed services; reduce rural practitioner
isolation; improve health system productivity and efficiency; and
improve patient outcomes. In each of these categories, specific
indicators were designed to be reported through a performance
monitoring website. New measures are being added to the Telehealth
Network Grant Program to capture awardee-level and aggregate data that
illustrate the impact and scope of federal funding along with assessing
these efforts. The measures speak to OAT's progress toward meeting the
goals, specifically telehealth services delivered through Emergency
Departments.
Likely Respondents: Telehealth Network Grantees.
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 Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
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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Performance Improvement 29 1 29 7 203
Measurement System (PIMS)......
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Total....................... 29 .............. 29 .............. 203
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[[Page 49661]]
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2020-17787 Filed 8-13-20; 8:45 am]
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