[Federal Register: October 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 193)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 70 FR 55859-55860, dated September 23, 2005)
is amended to reflect the establishment of the national Center for
Public Health Informatics within the Coordinating Center for Health
Information Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Delete in its entirety the titles and functional statements for the
Information Resources Management Office (CAJ5).
After the mission statement for the National Center for Health
Statistics (CPC), insert the following:
National Center for Public Health Informatics (CPE). The National
Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) protects and improves the
public's health through discovery, innovation, and service in health
information technology and informatics. Informatics can be defined as
the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination
of recorded knowledge. Public health informatics can be defined as the
systematic application of information and computer science and
technology to public health practice, research and learning. NCPHI
assumes a leadership role for CDC in public health informatics and
health information technology; ensures progress on CDC information
resources, informatics, and health information systems and standards;
facilitate cross-national center collaboration on informatics and
health information projects; and advances and supports health
information and informatics initiatives, systems, and activities across
public health.
Office of the Director (CPE1). (1) Plans, directs, coordinates,
implements, and manages activities of the National Center for Public
Health Informatics; (2) develops and recommends policies and procedures
relating to informatics resources management and support services as
appropriate; (3) develops vision and strategies for informatics and its
application within public health both nationally and internationally;
(4) assesses CDC-wide needs for informatics support; (5) collects
external input on informatics and applies the knowledge gained to
agency decision-making; (6) establishes CDC-wide informatics
priorities, including opportunities for redirecting resources to areas
of greater impact; (7) provides for the informatics response for cross-
cutting urgent and emergent needs; (8) establishes measures of success/
effectiveness of CDC informatics activities and provides guidance to
CDC programs on applying these measures; (9) evaluates informactics
services based on internal and external input; (10) establishes and
maintains internal CDC processes for decision making regarding
standards, guidelines, policies that have applicability throughout CDC;
(11) establishes and ensures the consistent application of the CDC
enterprise architecture to align systems and platforms with CDC
business objectives and goals and optimize the use of information
resources; (12) establishes and ensures the consistent application of
the CDC unified process to define a clear approach to deliver
successful projects that comply with federal regulations and policies
and CDC and Public Health Information Network standards; (13)
establishes and ensures the adoption of CDC-wide standards and
specifications that facilitate interoperability across sectors and
provides consistency of functionality; (14) establishes relationships
for public health infromatics across CDC and with state and local
public health organizations and other partners on informatics methods,
processes, and policies; (15) optimizes the portfolio of CDC's
informatics projects and systems, identifying and facilitating
opportunities for cross-coordinating center/coordinating office/
national center collaboration in order to leverage investments and
promote efficiency and integration; (16) promotes the integration of
informatics systems (e.g. surveillance) and approaches across CDC; (17)
collaborates and coordinates with all CDC organizations on informatics
and health information technology issues and works closely with the
Chief Information Officer on the interrelationships between informatics
and information technology services, security, and information
technology capital planning.
Enterprise Architecture Activity (CPE12). (1) Establishes, leads
and manages the CDC enterprise information technology program; (2)
ensures that the enterprise architecture and its associated standards
and specifications are applied properly throughout information
resources activities; (3) develops, facilitates and maintains processes
and procedures for evaluating and incorporating new technology and
standards in CDC's information resource environment; (4) develops and
establishes CDC's information resource current, transitional, and
future state technology architectures; (5) leads and staffs across-
agency Enterprise Architecture Board; (6) represents CDC on Department
of Health and Human Services and other federal and health architecture
initiatives; (7) provides subject matter expertise on the direction and
application of technology; (8) establishes and manages communities of
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practices for technology domains; (9) develops and maintains a
certification program to ensure partners' solutions are compatible and
compliant with Public Health Information Network requirements,
standards, and specifications;
Science and Research Activity (PCE13). (1) Sponsors and conducts
research on relevant informatics approaches and technologies; (2)
manages a repository of CDC and external research on informatics and
promotes the use of such research throughout CDC; (3) develops a
research agenda on public health informatics as a component of the CDC-
wide research agenda; (4) sponsors and conducts research on informatics
(e.g. ways of protecting privacy of health records in an electronic
environment, extent to which personal health records can be used for
public health surveillance, expanded use of access to other non-
traditional health data sources); (5) conducts applied research on
relevant approaches and technologies (e.g. applying ideas for standards
to systems, detection algorithms); (6) conducts systematic reviews of
available research results on informatics to ensure that existing
knowledge base is available for public health informatics; (7) creates
opportunities for innovation (e.g. develop reward systems, establish
centers of excellence, fund internal pilot projects); (8) provides
guidance and oversight of the practice of science in the center; (9)
oversees and provides leadership in center planning, prioritization and
evaluation of center research; (10) oversees the science process in the
center; (11) facilitates coordination of cross-cutting research in the
center; (12) assures the quality, objectivity and integrity of the
practice of science in the center; (13) assures external peer review of
research; (140 guides the measurement of research impact; (15) guides
translation of research to practice; (16) represents the center on the
Excellence in Science Committee and other committees.
Program Management Activity (CPE14). (1) Develops vision and
strategies for informatics and its application within public health
(including opportunities for redirecting and identifying resources to
areas of greater impact) and opportunities for cross-coordinating
center/coordinating office/national center collaboration; (3)
establishes measures of success/effectiveness of CDC informatics
activities; (4) establishes and maintains internal CDC processes for
decision making regarding metrics, standards, guidelines and policies;
(5) develops and manages the CDC Unified Process program for use across
the agency; (6) Facilitates and staffs informatics governance
activities; (7) coordinates, manages, and optimizes the informatics
portfolio of projects and systems; (8) identifies and incorporates best
practices for project management within the agency; (9) establishes and
manages mentoring programs and communities of practices for project
management; (10) evaluates health of projects and recommends areas for
improvement; (11) evaluates, designs, and deploys processes,
procedures, and systems for project management and system development.
Business Services Office (CPE15). The Business Services Office
(BSO) provides the coordinating office with a centralized business hub
where customer service and business administration is the focal point
of all business support functions. To carry out its mission, the BSO:
(1) Develops and implements supplemental and/or unique-to-NCPHI
administrative policies and procedures that govern business
administration, procurement practices, facilities management, time and
attendance reporting, travel, records management, personnel and a wide
scope of other business services; (2) plans, coordinates, tracks, and
provides management advice and direction of fiscal management for the
organization's annual budgets and spending plans; (3) provides
consultation on human capital needs and facilitates hiring and training
practices as described in Office of Personnel Management and agency
guidelines; (4) coordinates and manages all business services related
to management, administration, and training for NCPHI; (5) coordinates
all issues related to physical security, telecommunications, office
space and design, procurement of equipment, furniture, and information
technology services, and facilities management; (6) provides assistance
to others and independently formulates, develops, negotiates, manages,
and administers various NCPHI contracts, grants and cooperative
agreements; (7) maintains liaison with the other offices within NCPHI,
the coordinating center and other business service divisions and
offices within CDC/ATSDR.
Division of Alliance Management and Consultation (CPEB). (1)
Establishes and maintains relationships for public health informatics
across CDC, with partners and with other health care entities; (2)
provides expertise and support to CDC staff, partners, and other health
care entities on informatics methods, processes, policies, and
standards; (3) promotes health standards and facilitates forums across
CDC, sectors, and other federal agencies to ensure efficient data
exchange, interoperability of systems, and consistent implementation of
methods and policy; (4) advances the development of a workforce skilled
in public health informatics by developing and providing training
across CDC, to partners, and to other health care entities; (5)
promotes the interests of public health in the development of
informatics standards (working with federal, state and local, and
private sector initiatives and organizations) and initiatives (e.g.
electronic health records, networks, the national health information
infrastructure) to ensure the availability and utilization of expanded
health data for public health purposes; (6) enhances the ability of
public health officials to access and use data, information, systems,
and technologies collected through traditional and non-traditional
information systems, and through developing approaches to allow access
while protecting privacy, confidentiality, and intellectual property
rights; (7) enhances and maintains partnerships with other federal
agencies, state and local public health departments, national
organizations, health plans, care networks, and regional health
information networks to meet public health informatics needs.
Division of Knowledge Management Services (CPEC). (1) Identifies
and assesses possible informatics solutions for knowledge management
and pursues appropriate direction for the solution; (2) develops,
implements, and maintains, knowledge management solutions that enable
efficient delivery, sharing, collaboration, management, and
presentation of information and knowledge; (3) develops, implements and
maintains knowledge management solutions that enable efficient
delivery, sharing, collaboration, management, and presentation of
information and knowledge; (4) delivers credible, timely information
from scientific and health literature to CDC scientists, the public
health community, and the general public by delivering reference
services and access to published resources, evaluating, acquiring,
organizing and making available knowledge resources, and providing
training and consultation in use of science and health literature.
Division of Informatics Shared Services (CPED). (1) identifies
needs and opportunities for components that can be utilized across
multiple informatics solutions to ensure interoperability, integration
and consistency and pursues appropriate direction for the solution
(i.e., buy commercially available, re-use or build new); (2) develops,
implements
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and maintains underlying components that enable the integration of
solutions which address cross-cutting CDC or partner objectives; (3)
identifies the need and opportunities for components (e.g. messaging
specification, vocabulary, public health directory, secure data
transfer) that could be utilized across multiple informatics solutions
to ensure interoperability, integration, and consistency; (4) manages
and allocates shared contractor resources (e.g. security, usability,
quality assurance testing, developers, database administrators); (5)
manages umbrella contracting and other common carrier mechanisms to
achieve information solutions; (6) develops standards, quality
assurance procedures, and guidelines for effective and efficient
approaches to applications development and database management.
Division of integrated Surveillance Systems and Services (CPEE).
(1) Identifies and assesses informatics solutions for integrated
surveillance nationally and internationally and pursues appropriate
direction for the solution; (2) develops, implements and maintains
common platforms, enterprise-wide systems and applications for
integrated solutions that address cross-cutting CDC or partner
objectives; (3) develops, manages and supports integrated health
surveillance, information and operational solutions to facilitate
activities such as surveillance, lab reporting, analysis and tracking,
visualization, reporting and inventory management.
Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response (CPEG). (1)
Identifies and assesses informatics solutions for emergency
preparedness and response and pursues appropriate direction for the
solution; (2) ensures that capacity exists for responding to urgent and
emergent needs; (3) develops, manages, and supports emergency
preparedness and response solutions to facilitate activities such as
outbreak investigation, event detection and monitoring, and response
(e.g. flu vaccine finder) and ensures capacity for responding to urgent
and emergent needs; (4) develops and manages early disease detection
and characterization systems, situational awareness systems and related
analytic activities (e.g the biointelligence center, aberration
detection algorithms).
Dated: September 27, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-20060 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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