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extending credit and servicing loans,
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of
Regulation Y.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, May 19, 2011.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation; Medicare
Program; Meeting of the Technical
Advisory Panel on Medicare Trustee
Reports
Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces public
meetings of the Technical Advisory
Panel on Medicare Trustee Reports
(Panel). Notice of these meetings is
given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section
10(a)(1) and (a)(2)). The Panel will
discuss the short-term (10 year)
projection methods and assumptions in
projecting Medicare health spending for
Parts A, B, C and D and may make
recommendations to the Medicare
Trustees on how the Trustees might
more accurately estimate health
spending in the short run. The Panel’s
discussion is expected to be very
technical in nature and will focus on the
actuarial and economic assumptions
and methods by which Trustees might
more accurately measure health
spending. Although panelists are not
limited in the topics they may discuss,
the Panel is not expected to discuss or
recommend changes in current or future
Medicare provider payment rates or
coverage policy.
DATES: June 9, 2011, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
June 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. e.t.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
HHS headquarters at 200 Independence
Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20201,
Room 738G.
Comments: The meeting will allocate
time on the agenda to hear public
comments at the end of the meeting. In
lieu of oral comments, formal written
comments may be submitted for the
record to Donald T. Oellerich, OASPE,
200 Independence Ave., SW., 20201,
Room 405F. Those submitting written
comments should identify themselves
and any relevant organizational
affiliations.

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Donald T. Oellerich (202) 690–8410,
[email protected]. Note: Although
the meeting is open to the public,
procedures governing security
procedures and the entrance to Federal
buildings may change without notice.
Those wishing to attend the meeting
must call or e-mail Dr. Oellerich by
Monday June 6, 2011, so that their name
may be put on a list of expected
attendees and forwarded to the security
officers at HHS Headquarters.
Topics of the Meeting: The Panel is
specifically charged with discussing and
possibly making recommendations to
the Medicare Trustees on how the
Trustees might more accurately estimate
health spending in the United States.
The discussion is expected to focus on
highly technical aspects of estimation
involving economics and actuarial
science. Panelists are not restricted,
however, in the topics that they choose
to discuss.
Procedure and Agenda: This meeting
is open to the public. The Panel will
likely hear presentations by panel
members and HHS staff regarding short
range projection methods and
assumptions. After any presentations,
the Panel will deliberate openly on the
topic. Interested persons may observe
the deliberations, but the Panel will not
hear public comments during this time.
The Panel will also allow an open
public session for any attendee to
address issues specific to the topic.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 217a; Section 222 of
the Public Health Services Act, as amended.
The panel is governed by provisions of
Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 U.S.C.
Appendix 2), which sets forth standards for
the formation and use of advisory
committees.
Dated: May 9, 2011.
Sherry Glied,
Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.

AGENCY:
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This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘Health
IT Tool Evaluation.’’ In accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501–3521, AHRQ invites the public to
comment on this proposed information
collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on March 11, 2011 and allowed
60 days for public comment. One
comment was received. The purpose of
this notice is to allow an additional 30
days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by June 23, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by email at [email protected]
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Proposed Project
Health IT Tool Evaluation
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) is a lead Federal
agency in developing and disseminating
evidence and evidence-based tools on
how health IT can improve health care
quality, safety, efficiency, and
effectiveness.
In support of the health IT initiative,
AHRQ developed the National Resource
Center (NRC) for Health IT Web site.
This site contains a range of information
and evidence-based tools that support
the health IT initiative’s work and aims.
With this project AHRQ is conducting
an evaluation to assess whether these
tools are reaching their intended
audiences, are easy to use, and provide
the information that users expect and
need. The current project is an
evaluation of one of the tools available
on the NRC site: The Health IT Survey
Compendium. The Health IT Survey
Compendium is a searchable resource
that contains a set of publicly available
surveys to assist organizations in
evaluating health IT. The surveys in the
Health IT Survey Compendium cover a

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broad spectrum, including user
satisfaction, usability, technology use,
product functionality, and the impact of
health IT on safety, quality, and
efficiency.
The audiences included in this
evaluation are health IT researchers
(ranging in experience and expertise
from research assistants to more senior
investigators such as university
professors) and health IT implementers
(e.g., clinical champions and IT staff at
provider organizations, IT
implementation consultants and
experts). In the course of conducting
this evaluation, AHRQ will evaluate
both users and non-users (defined as not
current but possible users) of the Health
IT Survey Compendium.
The goals of this project are to
determine whether the Health IT Survey
Compendium is reaching its intended
audiences, whether it is meeting the
information needs and expectations of
these audiences, and whether it is easy
to use.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractors, Westat
and Mosaica Partners, pursuant to
AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct
and support research on healthcare and
on systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to
health care technologies. 42 U.S.C.
299a(a)(5).
Method of Collection
To achieve the projects’ goals AHRQ
will conduct the following activities:
(1) Screening questionnaire—used to
recruit research participants for the
needs assessment interviews, usability

testing and discussion groups, which
are described below. The questionnaire
also has a demographics section to
collect some basic demographic
information for those persons that
‘‘screen-in.’’
(2) Needs assessment interviews—
consisting of semi-structured interviews
with non-users of the Health IT Survey
Compendium. The purpose of these
interviews is to discover and then assess
the relative importance of information
needs of the intended audiences of the
Compendium. These interviews will
provide the perspective of non-users of
the Compendium in order to elicit
unbiased feedback about information
needs. After thoroughly exploring
information needs, each interviewee
will be shown the Health IT Survey
Compendium and asked to provide
feedback about how it addresses their
needs for surveys and data collection
instruments.
(3) Usability testing—focusing on the
navigation, ease of use, and usefulness
of the Health IT Survey Compendium.
These interviews will include both
current users and non-users of the
Health IT Survey Compendium.
(4) Discussion groups—consisting of
eight groups of 6–8 participants each (a
maximum of 64 participants across all
eight groups). The majority of the
session time will be spent showing the
Health IT Survey Compendium to the
participants, and the moderator will
elicit reactions to and opinions about
the Health IT Survey Compendium, its
features, and the surveys offered.
The outcome of the evaluation will be
a report including recommendations for

enhancing and improving the Health IT
Survey Compendium. The report will
provide results about both the perceived
usefulness and the usability of the
Health IT Survey Compendium. Results
will be presented for individual
audience segments as well as for the
user population as a whole. The report
will also include specific suggestions on
how to revise and extend the Health IT
Survey Compendium to make it more
useful to health IT researchers and
implementers, and will discuss the
general implications of the Health IT
Survey Compendium evaluation for the
development and evaluation of other
tools available on the NRC Web site.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annual
burden hours for each respondent’s time
to participate in this evaluation. The
screening questionnaire will be
completed by as many as 120 persons
and will take 3 minutes to complete on
average (only those persons that ‘‘screenin’’ will complete the demographics
section). The needs assessment will be
completed by 18 persons and requires
one hour. Usability testing will involve
18 persons and is estimated to take one
and a half hours. Eight discussion
groups with no more than 8 persons
each will be held and will last for about
90 minutes. The total annual burden is
estimated to be 147 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annual
cost burden associated with the
respondent time to participate in this
evaluation. The total annual burden is
estimated to be $7,454.

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Maximum
number of
respondents

Interview type

Number of
responses per
respondent

Max. hours
per response

Total burden
hours

Screening Questionnaire .................................................................................
Needs Assessment ..........................................................................................
Usability Testing ..............................................................................................
Discussion Groups ...........................................................................................

120
18
18
64

1
1
1
1

3/60
1.0
1.5
1.5

6
18
27
96

Total ..........................................................................................................

120

na

na

147

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Maximum
number of
respondents

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Interview type
Screening Questionnaire .................................................................................
Needs Assessment ..........................................................................................
Usability Testing ..............................................................................................
Discussion Groups ...........................................................................................

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Total burden
hours

120
18
18
64

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6
18
27
96

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Average
hourly
wage rate*
$50.71
50.71
50.71
50.71

Total cost
burden
$304
913
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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN—Continued
Maximum
number of
respondents

Interview type
Total ..........................................................................................................

Total burden
hours

120

Average
hourly
wage rate*

147

NA

Total cost
burden
7,454

* The hourly wage for the participants across the four data collections (screening questionnaire, needs assessment interview, usability testing
interviews, and discussion group interviews) is based upon the mean of the average hourly wages for Social science research assistants (19–
4061; $19.39 per hour); Postsecondary Health Specialties Teachers (25–1071; $53.88 per hour);Management analysts (13–1111; $40.70 per
hour); Computer and Information Systems Managers (11–3021; $58.00 per hour); Family and General Practitioners Teachers (29–1060; $81.03
per hour);Pharmacists (29–1051; $51.27 per hour). May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, United States, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Occupational Employment Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#29–0000.

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
The estimated total cost to the Federal
Government for this project is

$411,641.00 over a two-year period from
September 8, 2010 to September 7,
2012. The estimated average annual cost
is $205,821.

Exhibit 3 provides a breakdown of the
estimated total and average annual costs
by category.

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUAL COST * TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Cost component

Total cost

Annualized
cost

Project Management and Coordination Activities ...................................................................................................
Evaluation Plan and Protocol Development ............................................................................................................
OMB Submission Package ......................................................................................................................................
Conduct Evaluation ** ..............................................................................................................................................
Data Analysis, Report and Briefing .........................................................................................................................
Documentation and 508 Compliance ......................................................................................................................

$58,140
44,908
12,362
159,991
118,081
18,159

$29,070
22,454
6,181
79,996
59,041
9,080

Total ..................................................................................................................................................................

411,641

205,821

* Costs are fully loaded including overhead, G&A and fees.
** These activities include the data collections described in this submission.

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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of AHRQ healthcare
research and healthcare information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.

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Dated: May 10, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘Pilot
Test of the Proposed Pharmacy Survey
on Patient Safety Culture.’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal

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Register on March 11th, 2011 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
One comment was received. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by June 23, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by email at [email protected]
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Pilot Test of the Proposed Pharmacy
Survey on Patient Safety Culture
As the baby boomer population ages,
the general U.S. population continues to
grow, and as drug therapies for the
treatment of chronic diseases become
more efficacious, the expected increase

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