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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 77 (Monday, April 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 18920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [http://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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