[Federal Register: September 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 188)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-07-0636]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
State-based Evaluation of the Alert Notification Component of CDC's
Epidemic Information Exchange (Epi-X) Secure Public Health
Communications Network (OMB No. 0920-0636)--Extension--National Center
for Health Marketing (NCHM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
A central component of the CDC's mission is to strengthen the
nation's public health infrastructure by coordinating public health
surveillance at CDC and providing domestic and international support
through scientific communications and terrorism preparedness and
emergency response. The Epidemic Information Exchange (Epi-X) provides
CDC and its state and local partners and collaborators with a secure
public health communications network intended for routine and emergent
information exchange in a secure environment.
Great attention has been focused on improving secure public health
communications networks for the dissemination of critical disease
outbreak and/or bioterrorism-related events, which may have multi-
jurisdictional involvement and cause disease and death within a short
time-frame.
The purpose of the information gathered during this notification
proficiency testing exercise is to evaluate the extent to which new
registrants and currently authorized users of the Epidemic Information
Exchange (Epi-X) are able to utilize alert notification functionality
to minimize or prevent unnecessary injury or disease-related morbidity
and mortality through the use of secure communications and rapid
notification systems. In this case, notification alerts would be sent
to targeted public health professionals through a `barrage' of office
cell phone, home telephone, and pager calls to rapidly inform key
health authorities from multidisciplinary backgrounds and multiple
jurisdictions of evolving and critical public health information, and
assist with the decision making process. Presently, the necessity of
this evaluation process is timely because of ongoing terrorism threats
and acts perpetrated worldwide.
The survey information will be gathered through an online
questionnaire format, and help evaluate user comprehension and facility
solely with the targeted notification and rapid alerting
functionalities of Epi-X. The questionnaire will consist of both
closed- and open-ended items, and will be administered through
Zoomerang, an online questionnaire program, or as a last resort, by
telephone. Approximately 2,000 Epi-X users from every state of the
union will be asked to volunteer input (in a 5-10 question format)
about their experiences using the alert notification functionalities of
the Epi-X communications system.
There will be no cost to respondents, whose participation will be
strictly voluntary. The total estimated burden hours are 167.
Estimated Annualized Burden
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Public Health Professionals.................................. 1,000 1 10/60
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Dated: September 24, 2007.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E7-19198 Filed 9-27-07; 8:45 am]
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