[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 75 (Friday, April 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21902-21903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08913]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

 [Docket ID: DoD-2012-HA-0148]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense has submitted to OMB for clearance, 
the following proposal for collection of information under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 19, 
2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Licari, 571-372-0493.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title, Associated Form and OMB Number: Electronic Blood Management 
System (EBMS); OMB Control Number 0720-TBD.
    Type of Request: New Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 4,600.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Annual Responses: 4,600.
    Average Burden per Response: 10 minutes.
    Annual Burden Hours: 766.
    Needs and Uses: EBMS is a family of related automated information 
systems (AIS) comprised of two separate and distinct commercial-off-
the-shelf (COTS) software applications that provides the Military 
Health System (MHS) with a comprehensive enterprise wide Blood Donor 
Management System (BDMS) and a Blood Management Blood Bank and 
Transfusion Service (BMBB/TS). The Blood Donor Management System (BDMS) 
employs two separate COTS software applications, Mediware Corporation's 
LifeTrak DonorTM and LifeTrak Lab & 
DistributionTM. BDMS is a technology modernization effort 
intended to enhance the DoD's Blood Program capabilities for Donor 
Centers through the seamless integration of blood products inventory 
management, transport, availability, and most importantly, blood and 
blood products traceability from collection to disposition within the 
electronic health record (EHR). The Blood Management Blood Bank 
Transfusion Service (BMBB/TS) employs two separate COTS software 
applications, Mediware Corporation's HCLLTM (Transfusion) 
and KnowledgeTrakTM (Learning Management). BMBB/TS is an 
effort intended to enhance the DoD's Blood Program capabilities for a 
seamless integration of blood banking and transfusion activities, 
products inventory management, transport, availability, and most 
importantly traceability from transfusion to disposition or destruction 
within the electronic health record (EHR). EBMS has built-in safeguards 
to limit access and visibility of personal or sensitive information in 
accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974. The application will account 
for everyone that donates blood and receives a blood transfusion in the 
MHS--Active Duty, Reserves, National Guard, government civilian, 
contractors and volunteers assigned or borrowed--this also includes 
non-appropriated fund employees and foreign nationals.
    Affected Public: Contractors, civilian and foreign nationals 
donating to the Military Health Systems.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: Mr. John Kraemer.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Mr. Kraemer at the Office of Management 
and Budget, Desk Officer

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for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503.
    You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by the following method:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the 
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without 
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.
    DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia Toppings.
    Written requests for copies of the information collection proposal 
should be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD Information Management 
Division, 4800 Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 
VA 22350-3100.

    Dated: April 15, 2014.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2014-08913 Filed 4-17-14; 8:45 am]
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