[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 37 (Wednesday, February 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10096-10098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03826]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-0824]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility
of government information, invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the below
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send
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comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. 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. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (BioSense, OMB Control No.
0920-0824, Expiration Date 10/31/2015)--Revision--Center for
Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The BioSense Program was created by congressional mandate as part
of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and
Response Act of 2002 and was launched by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2003. The BioSense Program has since
been expanded into the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)
to promote the use of high-quality syndromic surveillance data for
improved nationwide all-hazard situational awareness for public health
decision making and enhanced responses to hazardous events and
outbreaks.
NSSP is a collaboration among individuals and organizations from
the local, state, and federal levels of public health; other federal
agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA); and associations of public health officials,
including the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
NSSP includes a community of practice, a stakeholder governance
process, and a cloud-based syndromic surveillance platform (the NSSP
platform) that hosts the BioSense application and other analytic tools
and services.
Syndromic surveillance is a process that regularly and
systematically uses health and health-related data in near real-time to
make information on the health of a community available to public
health officials. Patient encounter, laboratory, and pharmacy data from
healthcare settings including emergency departments, urgent care,
ambulatory care and inpatient settings provide critical information for
syndromic surveillance and are used by public health agencies under
authorities granted to them by applicable local and state laws.
CDC requests a three-year approval for a Revision for NSSP
(BioSense, OMB Control No. 0920-0824, Expiration Date 10/31/2015). With
this revision, CDC also requests the following collection title:
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP). The NSSP will continue
to receive and processes four different types of information: (1)
Contact information for state and local public health officials who
wish to have data from their jurisdictions submitted to NSSP
(recruitment data); (2) contact information for public health officials
and other new users needed to provide them with access to the NSSP
Platform (registration data); (3) NSSP user information needed to
determine for development of the NSSP platform and to assess the
usability of the platform (user data) (since the number of respondents
will not exceed nine non-federal users to assess usability, the
associated burden is not applicable to this request); and (4) existing
healthcare encounter, pharmacy, and laboratory data (healthcare data)
without personally identifiable information (PII).
As in the past, healthcare data will continue to be submitted to
NSSP by state and local health departments or hospitals in those
jurisdictions, federal agencies including the VA, DoD, a national level
private sector clinical laboratory, and a private sector health
information exchange company.
In addition, healthcare data will be submitted from urgent care,
ambulatory care and inpatient settings. The inclusion of these
additional data in NNSP is consistent with the Department of Health and
Human Services' criteria for the ``meaningful use'' by public health of
electronic health records for syndromic surveillance.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Respondents in this data submission include state and local public
health jurisdictions, federal agencies, and the private sector
providers of healthcare, laboratory and pharmacy data.
Though a large number of electronic health records are transmitted
to NSSP, once the automated interfaces are set up for transmission
(developing the data sharing agreements), there is no burden for record
transmission. The estimated annual burden is 51 hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden per
Type of respondents Number of responses per response (in Total burden (in
respondents respondent hours) hours)
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Recruitment Information Collection
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State and Local Public Health 20 1 1 20
Jurisdictions..................
Federal Government.............. 2 1 1 2
Private Sector.................. 3 1 1 3
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Registration Information Collection
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State and Local Public Health 200 1 5/60 17
Jurisdictions..................
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Federal Government.............. 30 1 5/60 3
Private Sector.................. 50 1 5/60 4
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Healthcare Information Collection: Administrator Data Sharing Agreements/Permissions
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State and Local Public Health 20 1 5/60 2
Jurisdictions..................
Federal Government.............. 2 0 5/60 0
Private Sector.................. 3 0 0 0
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Total....................... .................. .................. .................. 51
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-03826 Filed 2-24-15; 8:45 am]
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