Notice2023-11418
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Health Workforce Connector
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Published
May 30, 2023
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement 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 88, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34506-34507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11418]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Health
Workforce Connector
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 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 July 31,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5727362732252038253c173f25243679303821"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fe8e9f8e9b8c89918c95be968c8d9fd0999188">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 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#d4a4b5a4b1a6a3bba6bf94bca6a7b5fab3bba2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d0d1c0d180f0a120f163d150f0e1c531a120b">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at 301-443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Health Workforce Connector
OMB No. 0906-0031--Revision.
Abstract: The Health Workforce Connector's (HWC) goal is to help
connect skilled professionals to communities in need by allowing
approved Site Points of Contact (POCs) at National Health Service Corps
(NHSC), Nurse Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs (Nurse
Corps), Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan
Repayment Program, Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program (PS),
Nursing Training, and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education
(THCGME) sites to post available opportunities and update site
profiles. The HWC provides a central platform to connect participants,
including but not limited to those in the NHSC, Nurse Corps, STAR, PS,
Nursing Training, and THCGME programs with facilities that are approved
for performance of their service obligation. The HWC has become a
resource that connects any health care professional or student
interested in providing primary care services in underserved
communities with facilities in need of health care providers. The HWC
also allows users to create a profile, search for approved sites, find
job and training opportunities, and connect with other clinicians who
are similarly interested in working with underserved populations. The
HWC is searchable by Site POCs. Individuals can use the HWC's search
capability with Google Maps.
The burden estimates below have changed from the estimates of
burden provided in the previous notice (60-day notice published on
August 12, 2020, vol. 85, No. 156, pp. 48708-09). The estimated burden
total is significantly lower in this revised notice because it is based
on the estimated total number of new users who will create accounts and
publish profiles and does not include many existing program
participants and site POCs who already have existing accounts.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Information will be
collected from users in the following two ways:
(1) Account Creation: For job seekers, creating an account is
optional. To create an account the user must enter their first name,
last name, and email address. Those mandatory fields will be used to
send an automated email allowing the user to validate their login
credentials. In addition, for job seekers participating in the programs
listed above, their HWC account will be linked to their existing
program file in the Bureau of Health Workforce Management Information
Systems Solution database and allow an initial import of existing data
at the request of the user.
(2) Profile Completion: Users may fill out a profile, but this
function will be optional and includes fields such as location,
discipline, specialty, and languages spoken. The information collected,
if published by the user, can be searched by approved Site POCs seeking
potential candidates for health care job opportunities at their site.
Job seekers also can set their security and privacy settings on their
accounts to make their profiles searchable by other end users or
private at any time. In addition, all information collected through the
HWC will be stored within existing secure the Bureau of Health
Workforce Management Information Systems Solution databases and will be
used internally for report generation on an as-needed basis.
Likely Respondents: Potential users include individuals searching
for a health care job opportunity at a NHSC, Nurse Corps, STAR, PS,
Nursing Training, or THCGME approved health care facility and health
care facility POCs searching for potential candidates to fill open
health care job opportunities at their sites.
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 is summarized in the table below.
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Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Account Creation................ 5,008 1 5,008 .08 400.64
Complete Profile................ 4,164 1 4,164 1.00 4,164
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Total....................... \1\ 5,008 .............. 5,008 .............. 4,564.64
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\1\ The 4,164 respondents who complete their profiles are a subset of the 5,008 respondents who create accounts.
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. 2023-11418 Filed 5-26-23; 8:45 am]
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