Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 200 / Monday, October 19, 2009 / Notices 53505 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Forms Type of respondent Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Interview Protocol ............................. Faculty .............................................. 100 1 2 200 

Interview Protocol ............................. Doctoral Student Graduates ............ 100 1 2 200 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 400 

Seleda Perryman, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–25028 Filed 10–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology; HIT 

Standards Committee’s 

Implementation Workgroup Meeting; 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

This notice announces a forthcoming 

meeting of a public advisory 

subcommittee of the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology (ONC). The 

meeting will be open to the public. 

Name of Committee: HIT Standards 

Committee’s Implementation 

Workgroup. 

General Function of the Committee: 

To provide recommendations to the 

National Coordinator on standards, 

implementation specifications, and 

certification criteria for the electronic 

exchange and use of health information 

for purposes of adoption, consistent 

with the implementation of the Federal 

Health IT Strategic Plan, and in 

accordance with policies developed by 

the HIT Policy Committee. The 

Implementation Workgroup is charged 

with benchmarking adoption rates for 

proposed standards across diverse 

settings; soliciting public input on what 

stakeholders need to lower the barriers 

to standards adoption; evaluating the 

degree to which proposed standards 

achieve policy objectives; and 

establishing an ongoing process to 

gather public input to inform future 

standards development, revisions to 

existing standards, or guidance on tools 

to minimize the cost of adoption. 

Date and Time: The meeting will be 

held on October 29, 2009, from 9 a.m. 

to 3 p.m./Eastern Time. 

Location: The Omni Shoreham Hotel, 

2500 Calvert Street, NW., Washington, 

DC. The hotel telephone number is 202– 

234–0700. 

Contact Person: Judy Sparrow, Office 

of the National Coordinator, HHS, 330 C 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20201, 

202–205–4528, Fax: 202–690–6079, email: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov. Please call 

the contact person for up-to-date 

information on this meeting. A notice in 

the Federal Register about last minute 

modifications that impact a previously 

announced advisory committee meeting 

cannot always be published quickly 

enough to provide timely notice. 

Agenda: The Implementation 

Workgroup will be hearing testimony 

from stakeholder groups, such as 

purchasers, vendors, and users, on 

health information technology adoption 

experiences with the proposed 

standards. The Workgroup intends to 

monitor the adoption rate of proposed 

standards, identify opportunities to 

accelerate implementation, and 

establish a continuous feedback loop on 

the development of new or revised 

standards. 

In addition to soliciting verbal and 

formal written comments at the hearing, 

the Workgroup will use a Web-based 

tool to engage the public. The ONC is 

setting up a Web-based tool to engage 

the public in the topic; please visit the 

ONC Web site closer to the meeting date 

for additional information. 

ONC intends to make background 

material available to the public no later 

than two (2) business days prior to the 

meeting. If ONC is unable to post the 

background material on its Web site 

prior to the meeting, it will be made 

publicly available at the location of the 

advisory subcommittee meeting, and the 

background material will be posted on 

ONC’s Web site after the meeting, at 

http://healthit.hhs.gov. The meeting 

will be available via Webcast; visit 

http://healthit.hhs.gov for instructions 

on how to listen via telephone or Web. 

Procedure: Interested persons may 

present data, information, or views, 

orally or in writing, on issues pending 

before the committee. Written 

submissions may be made to the contact 

person from October 29th until 

November 12, 2009. Oral comments 

from the pubic will be scheduled at the 

close of the meeting on October 29, 

2009. Time allotted for each 

presentation may be limited. If the 

number of speakers requesting to 

comment is greater than can be 

reasonably accommodated during the 

scheduled open public hearing session, 

ONC will take written comments after 

the meeting until close of business on 

that day. 

Persons attending Committee 

meetings are advised that the agency is 

not responsible for providing access to 

electrical outlets. 

ONC welcomes the attendance of the 

public at its advisory committee 

meetings. Seating is limited at the 

location, and ONC will make every 

effort to accommodate persons with 

physical disabilities or special needs. If 

you require special accommodations 

due to a disability, please contact Judy 

Sparrow at least seven (7) days in 

advance of the meeting. 

ONC is committed to the orderly 

conduct of its advisory committee 

meetings. Please visit our Web site at 

http://healthit.hhs.gov for procedures 

on public conduct during advisory 

committee meetings. 

Notice of this meeting is given under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C., App. 2). 

Dated: October 13, 2009. 

Judith Sparrow, 

Office of Programs and Coordination, Office 

of the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. E9–25051 Filed 10–14–09; 4:15 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Solicitation for Members of the 

National Vaccine Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services, Office of the Secretary, 

Office of Public Health and Science. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 300aa–5, Section 

2105 of the Public Health Service (PHS) 


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