Notice2022-13526
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request Information Collection Request Title: Optimizing Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures
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Published
June 24, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 121 (Friday, June 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37874-37875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13526]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
[OMB No. 0906-xxxx-New]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request Information Collection Request Title: Optimizing
Virtual Care Grant Program Performance Measures
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than August 23,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#85f5e4f5e0f7f2eaf7eec5edf7f6e4abe2eaf3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="582839283d2a2f372a3318302a2b39763f372e">[email protected]</span></a> or by mail to the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e99988998c9b9e869b82a9819b9a88c78e869f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3a3b2a3b6a1a4bca1b893bba1a0b2fdb4bca5">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the acting HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-
9094.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information collection request title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Optimizing Virtual Care Grant
Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New.
Abstract: The Health Center Program and supplemental awards for
health centers are authorized by Section 330(d) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b(d)). Notably, HRSA is
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authorized to make supplemental awards for health centers to
``implement evidence-based models for increasing access to high-quality
primary care services, which may include models related to expanding
the use of telehealth and technology-enabled collaborative learning and
capacity building models.'' Under the Optimizing Virtual Care (OVC)
grant program, 29 high-performing health centers received 2-year one-
time funding supplemental awards to increase health care access and
quality for underserved populations through virtual care such as
telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital patient tools, and
health information technology platforms. Specifically, award recipients
will use OVC funding to develop and implement innovative evidence-based
strategies with the potential to be adapted, leveraged, and scaled
across the Health Center Program to increase access to care and improve
clinical quality by optimizing the use of virtual care with a specific
focus on medically underserved communities and populations.
The goal of the OVC grant program is to continue to support
innovation that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, when health centers
quickly expanded their use of virtual care to maintain access to
essential primary care services for underserved communities. HRSA-
funded health centers serve medically underserved populations facing
barriers to virtual care access, such as low digital literacy, low
connectivity capabilities, or limited technology access. The OVC grant
recipients will serve as a model for how to increase equitable virtual
care, generating and refining strategies that can be adapted and scaled
across the Health Center Program.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The information collected
on OVC grant recipient activities and performance will help HRSA
demonstrate, adapt, assess, and disseminate promising practices,
strategies, and novel models of virtual care across the nation's health
centers. The information will support an assessment that yields:
<bullet> Data on how to optimize the use of virtual care in the
Health Center Program to enhance access to care and improve clinical
quality for medically underserved communities and populations.
<bullet> Information on how to adapt, leverage, and scale up the
OVC grant program models across other HRSA funding opportunities.
<bullet> Information on strategies to promote and scale virtual
care innovations focused on increasing health equity for Health Center
Program patients.
The assessment will include descriptive analyses of grant recipient
activities and performance, including analyses of trends over time. The
analyses will inform recommendations for performance measures that HRSA
could scale across the Health Center Program and across other grant
programs.
The grant recipient activities related to implementation of novel
models of virtual care, including aggregate data on patients served and
the services they received, will be captured via monthly progress
reports. A set of health center performance measures will be captured
in a bi-annual progress report and will provide insight into health
equity and virtual care. Grant recipients will collect and report
performance measures based on project goals and objectives that span
four key population health and clinical domain areas, including (1)
Increased Access to Care and Information; (2) Improve Clinical Quality
and Health Outcomes; (3) Enhance Patient Care Coordination; and (4)
Promote Health Equity.
Likely Respondents: Respondents will be the 29 health centers that
received one-time funding supplemental awards through the Optimizing
Virtual Care grant program.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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OVC Monthly Progress Report..... 29 12 348 2 696
OVC Biannual Measures Report.... 29 2 58 48 2,784
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Total....................... 29 .............. 406 .............. 3,480
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2022-13526 Filed 6-23-22; 8:45 am]
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