[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52953-52954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21497]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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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 [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy--New--
Public Health Surveillance Program Office (PHSPO); Office of
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 241) authorizes CDC to
disseminate nationally notifiable condition information. CDC's
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes incidence tables for
nationally notifiable conditions reported through the National
Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and other surveillance
data sources to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
(NNDSS).
NEDSS (OMB 0920-0728, expiration date: 2/28/2010) is an internet-
based infrastructure for public health surveillance data exchange that
uses specific Public Health Information Network (PHIN) and NEDSS
electronic data and information standards to advance the development of
efficient, integrated, and interoperable surveillance systems at
federal, state and local levels. CDC's proposed Public Health
Surveillance Program Office (PHSPO) is responsible for establishing and
managing the national reporting system of epidemiologic data for
notifiable conditions (diseases) via NEDSS.
Case notification messaging for most of the nationally notifiable
conditions (77 infectious conditions as of August 2009) will eventually
be supported by the standard Health Level 7 v2.5 (HL7) message format.
The HL7 message format requires a Message Mapping Guide (MMG)--
developed by the NEDSS and NNDSS programs, in collaboration with state
and federal subject matter experts--to implement case notification to
CDC via NEDSS. At present, seven MMGs are available for implementation
by jurisdictions, and current NEDSS resources support the development
of three new MMGs per year. A jurisdiction's implementation of a MMG
requires an average of four months per MMG, and a jurisdiction could
potentially implement up to three MMGs a year. In most instances,
National Center for Public Health Informatics' (NCPHI) programmatic and
technical expertise is required to support this process at the
jurisdictional level.
The National Notifiable Condition Messaging Support Strategy
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Questionnaire has been developed by the NEDSS program to gather
information needed for formulating a technical and project management
support strategy for 57 reporting jurisdictions (i.e., 50 states, 5
territories, and 2 cities (New York City, NY and Washington, DC)) as
they implement NEDSS messaging using MMGs. A jurisdiction's response to
the questionnaire will be used by the NEDSS implementation and
management teams to assess the jurisdiction's IT system environment and
capacity and help determine the project schedule and level of human and
technical support needed to complete the jurisdiction's implementation
of a nationally notifiable condition message. NEDSS infrastructure
implementation support includes, but is not limited to implementing
NEDSS Message Subscription Service (MSS) and NEDSS Messaging Solution
(NMS) software in requesting jurisdictions; providing MSS and NMS
software training and ongoing technical support; and distributing
funding via the CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity cooperative
agreement.
Questionnaires will be distributed to jurisdictions that initiate
MMG implementation for a condition; therefore, the maximum annual
frequency of responses per jurisdiction is three. The NEDSS team will
request the jurisdiction to voluntarily complete the questionnaire, but
a response is not a pre-requisite for support.
There is no cost to respondents other than their time to
participate in the survey. The total estimated annual burden hours are
114.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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State, Territory and Local Public National Notifiable 57 3 40/60
Health Department. Condition Messaging
Support Strategy
Questionnaire.
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Dated: August 23, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-21497 Filed 8-27-10; 8:45 am]
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