Notice2025-13553
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915-0361-Revision
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Published
July 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 136 (Friday, July 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33962-33963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13553]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement
Tool, OMB No. 0915-0361--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than August 18,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3f4f5e4f5a4d48504d547f574d4c5e11585049"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cdbdacbda8bfbaa2bfa68da5bfbeace3aaa2bb">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Telehealth Resource Center
Performance Measurement Tool, OMB No. 0915-0361--Revision.
Abstract: HRSA requests a revision of its approved Telehealth
Resource Center (TRC) Performance Measurement Tool and renewal of the
previously approved performance measures. TRCs deliver telehealth
technical assistance under cooperative agreements awarded by HRSA's
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, as authorized by section
330I(d)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-14(d)(2)).
There are two types of HRSA TRC programs:
1. Two National TRC Programs focus on policy and technology.
2. Twelve Regional TRC Programs host activities and provide
resources to rural and underserved areas.
HRSA TRCs
<bullet> Provide training and support,
<bullet> Publicize information and research findings,
<bullet> Support collaboration and partnerships,
<bullet> Promote effective partnerships, and
<bullet> Promote the use of telehealth by providing health care
information and education to the public and medical specialists.
TRCs share expertise through individual consults, training,
webinars, conference presentations, and the web. HRSA collects
information using the TRC Performance Measurement Tool.
HRSA seeks to revise its approved information collection because
the electronic system for submitting information to HRSA has changed
from the Performance Improvement Management System to Data Collection
Platform as a Service (DCP). Although the electronic system has
changed, the information collected using the TRC Performance
Measurement Tool has not changed and HRSA's burden estimate remains the
same.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on May 15, 2025,
vol. 90, No. 93; pp. 20677-79. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: To evaluate existing
programs, recipients of the National and Regional TRC cooperative
agreements submit data through HRSA's DCP. The data are used to measure
the effectiveness of technical assistance. There is one data reporting
period each year; during this reporting period, data are reported for
the previous 12 months of activity. TRCs have approximately 6 weeks to
enter their data into the DCP system during each annual reporting
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period. The instrument was developed to measure how the National and
Regional TRCs meet the following goals:
<bullet> Improving access to needed services,
<bullet> Reducing rural and underserved population practitioner
isolation,
<bullet> Improving health system productivity and efficiency, and
<bullet> Improving patient outcomes.
The TRCs currently report on existing performance data elements
using the TRC Performance Measurement Tool. The performance measures
assess how the TRC program meets its goals to:
<bullet> Expand the availability of telehealth services in
underserved communities;
<bullet> Improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of
telehealth services;
<bullet> Promote knowledge exchange and dissemination about
efficient and effective telehealth practices and technology; and
<bullet> Establish sustainable technical assistance centers
providing quality, unbiased technical assistance for the development
and expansion of effective and efficient telehealth services in
underserved communities.
Additionally, the TRC Performance Measurement Tool allows HRSA to:
<bullet> Determine the value added from the TRC cooperative
agreements;
<bullet> Justify budget requests;
<bullet> Collect uniform, consistent data which enables HRSA to
monitor programs;
<bullet> Provide guidance to grantees on important indicators to
track over time for their own internal program management;
<bullet> Measure performance relative to HRSA's mission as well as
individual goals and objectives of the program;
<bullet> Identify topics of interest for future special studies;
and
<bullet> Identify changes in health care needs within rural and
underserved communities, allowing programs to shift focus to meet those
needs.
Likely Respondents: Likely respondents are telehealth associations,
telehealth providers, rural and underserved health providers,
clinicians that deliver services via telehealth, technical assistance
providers, and research organizations and academic medical centers that
receive National or Regional TRC cooperative agreements.
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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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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TRC Performance Measurement Tool 14 42 588 0.07 41
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Total....................... 14 42 588 0.07 41
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* Total Burden Hours are rounded up to the nearest whole number.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2025-13553 Filed 7-17-25; 8:45 am]
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