[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 14, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 55793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-22797]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 
443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

HRSA Telehealth Outcome Measures (OMB No. 0915-0311)--Extension

    In order to help carry out its mission, the Office for the 
Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) created a set of performance measures 
that grantees can use to evaluate the effectiveness of their services 
programs and monitor their progress through the use of performance 
reporting data. As required by the Government Performance and Review 
Act of 1993 (GPRA), all Federal agencies must develop strategic plans 
describing their overall goal and objectives. OAT has worked with its 
grantees to develop performance measures to be used to evaluate and 
monitor the progress of the grantees. Grantee goals are to: improve 
access to needed services; reduce rural practitioner isolation; improve 
health system productivity and efficiency; and improve patient 
outcomes. In each of these categories, specific indicators were 
designed to be reported through a performance monitoring Web site.
    The estimates of burden are as follows:

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                                                  Average number
              Form                   Number of     of responses        Total         Hours per     Total burden
                                    respondents   per respondent     responses       response          hours
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Performance Measurement Tool....             667               2           1,334               7           9,338
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: September 7, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-22797 Filed 9-13-10; 8:45 am]
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