13412 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 48 / Friday, March 11, 2011 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Health 

IT Tool Evaluation.’’ In accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501–3521, AHRQ invites the public to 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by May 10, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

e-mail at 

doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Health IT Tool Evaluation 

The Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ) is a lead Federal 

agency in developing and disseminating 

evidence and evidence-based tools on 

how health IT can improve health care 

quality, safety, efficiency, and 

effectiveness. 

In support of the health IT initiative, 

AHRQ developed the National Resource 

Center (NRC) for Health IT Web site. 

This site contains a range of information 

and evidence-based tools that support 

the health IT initiative’s work and aims. 

With this project AHRQ is conducting 

an evaluation to assess whether these 

tools are reaching their intended 

audiences, are easy to use, and provide 

the information that users expect and 

need. The current project is an 

evaluation of one of the tools available 

on the NRC site: The Health IT Survey 

Compendium. The Health IT Survey 

Compendium is a searchable resource 

that contains a set of publicly available 

surveys to assist organizations in 

evaluating health IT. The surveys in the 

Health IT Survey Compendium cover a 

broad spectrum, including user 

satisfaction, usability, technology use, 

product functionality, and the impact of 

health IT on safety, quality, and 

efficiency. 

The audiences included in this 

evaluation are health IT researchers 

(ranging in experience and expertise 

from research assistants to more senior 

investigators such as university 

professors) and health IT implementers 

(e.g., clinical champions and IT staff at 

provider organizations, IT 

implementation consultants and 

experts). In the course of conducting 

this evaluation, AHRQ will evaluate 

both users and non-users (defined as not 

current but possible users) of the Health 

IT Survey Compendium. 

The goals of this project are to 

determine whether the Health IT Survey 

Compendium is reaching its intended 

audiences, whether it is meeting the 

information needs and expectations of 

these audiences, and whether it is easy 

to use. 

This study is being conducted by 

AHRQ through its contractors, Westat 

and Mosaica Partners, pursuant to 

AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct 

and support research on healthcare and 

on systems for the delivery of such care, 

including activities with respect to 

health care technologies. 42 U.S.C. 

299a(a)(5). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve the projects’ goals AHRQ 

will conduct the following activities: 

(1) Screening questionnaire—used to 

recruit research participants for the 

needs assessment interviews, usability 

testing and discussion groups, which 

are described below. The questionnaire 

also has a demographics section to 

collect some basic demographic 

information for those persons that 

‘‘screen-in.’’ 

(2) Needs assessment interviews— 

consisting of semi-structured interviews 

with non-users of the Health IT Survey 

Compendium. The purpose of these 

interviews is to discover and then assess 

the relative importance of information 

needs of the intended audiences of the 

Compendium. These interviews will 

provide the perspective of non-users of 

the Compendium in order to elicit 

unbiased feedback about information 

needs. After thoroughly exploring 

information needs, each interviewee 

will be shown the Health IT Survey 

Compendium and asked to provide 

feedback about how it addresses their 

needs for surveys and data collection 

instruments. 

(3) Usability testing—focusing on the 

navigation, ease of use, and usefulness 

of the Health IT Survey Compendium. 

These interviews will include both 

current users and non-users of the 

Health IT Survey Compendium. 

(4) Discussion groups—consisting of 

eight groups of 6–8 participants each (a 

maximum of 64 participants across all 

eight groups). The majority of the 

session time will be spent showing the 

Health IT Survey Compendium to the 

participants, and the moderator will 

elicit reactions to and opinions about 

the Health IT Survey Compendium, its 

features, and the surveys offered. 

The outcome of the evaluation will be 

a report including recommendations for 

enhancing and improving the Health IT 

Survey Compendium. The report will 

provide results about both the perceived 

usefulness and the usability of the 

Health IT Survey Compendium. Results 

will be presented for individual 

audience segments as well as for the 

user population as a whole. The report 

will also include specific suggestions on 

how to revise and extend the Health IT 

Survey Compendium to make it more 

useful to health IT researchers and 

implementers, and will discuss the 

general implications of the Health IT 

Survey Compendium evaluation for the 

development and evaluation of other 

tools available on the NRC Web site. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annual 

burden hours for each respondent’s time 

to participate in this evaluation. The 

screening questionnaire will be 

completed by as many as 120 persons 

and will take 3 minutes to complete on 

average (only those persons that ‘‘screenin’’ will complete the demographics 

section). The needs assessment will be 

completed by 18 persons and requires 

one hour. Usability testing will involve 

18 persons and is estimated to take one 

and a half hours. Eight discussion 

groups with no more than 8 persons 

each will be held and will last for about 

90 minutes. The total annual burden is 

estimated to be 147 hours. 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annual 

cost burden associated with the 

respondent time to participate in this 

evaluation. The total annual burden is 

estimated to be $7,454. 


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EXHIBIT 1— ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Interview type Maximum No. of 

respondents 

No. of responses 

per respondent 

Maximum hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Screening Questionnaire ......................................................... 120 1 3/60 6 

Needs Assessment .................................................................. 18 1 1.0 18 

Usability Testing ...................................................................... 18 1 1.5 27 

Discussion Groups ................................................................... 64 1 1.5 96 

Total .................................................................................. 120 na na 147 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Interview type Maximum No. of 

respondents 

Total burden 

hours 

Average hourly 

wage rate * Total cost burden 

Screening Questionnaire ......................................................... 120 6 $50.71 $304 

Needs Assessment .................................................................. 18 18 50.71 913 

Usability Testing ...................................................................... 18 27 50.71 1,369 

Discussion Groups ................................................................... 64 96 50.71 4,868 

Total .................................................................................. 120 147 NA 7,454 

* The hourly wage for the participants across the four data collections (screening questionnaire, needs assessment interview, usability testing 

interviews, and discussion group interviews) is based upon the mean of the average hourly wages for Social science research assistants (19– 

4061; $19.39 per hour); Postsecondary Health Specialties Teachers (25–1071; $53.88 per hour); Management analysts (13–1111; $40.70 per 

hour); Computer and Information Systems Managers (11–3021; $58.00 per hour); Family and General Practitioners Teachers (29–1060; $81.03 

per hour); Pharmacists (29–1051; $51.27 per hour). May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, United States, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Occupational Employment Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#29–0000. 

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal 

Government 

The estimated total cost to the Federal 

Government for this project is 

$411,641.00 over a two-year period from 

September 8, 2010 to September 7, 

2012. The estimated average annual cost 

is $205,821. Exhibit 3 provides a 

breakdown of the estimated total and 

average annual costs by category. 

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUAL COST * TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Cost component Total cost Annualized cost 

Project Management and Coordination Activities ....................................................................................... $58,140 $29,070 

Evaluation Plan and Protocol Development ................................................................................................ 44,908 22,454 

OMB Submission Package .......................................................................................................................... 12,362 6,181 

Conduct Evaluation ** .................................................................................................................................. 159,991 79,996 

Data Analysis, Report and Briefing ............................................................................................................. 118,081 59,041 

Documentation and 508 Compliance .......................................................................................................... 18,159 9,080 

Total ...................................................................................................................................................... 411,641 205,821 

* Costs are fully loaded including overhead, G&A and fees. 

** These activities include the data collections described in this submission. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s 

information collection are requested 

with regard to any of the following: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of AHRQ healthcare 

research and healthcare information 

dissemination functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including 

hours and costs) of the proposed 

collection(s) of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information upon the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: March 2, 2011. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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