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project. The total cost burden is 

estimated to be $91,668. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Pre-training survey (primary trainees) (time point #1) ..................................... * 1500 1 15/60 375 

Post-training survey (time point #2) ................................................................. * 1500 1 15/60 375 

6-month post training survey (time point #3) ................................................... * 1500 1 10/60 250 

12-month post training survey (time point #4) ................................................. * 1500 1 10/60 250 

Annual survey (one-time survey of secondary trainees) ................................. 3000 1 10/60 500 

Quarterly survey of new tool users .................................................................. 1200 1 5/60 100 

Total .......................................................................................................... ** 5,700 NA NA 1850 

* These individuals are the same 1500 individuals (primary trainees) and will be assessed at four different time points. 

** Estimated total number of unique respondents. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Total burden 

hours 

Average 

hourly wage 

rate * 

($) 

Total cost 

burden 

($) 

Pre-training survey (primary trainees) (time point #1) ..................................... 1500 375 * 49.55 18,581 

Post-training survey (time point #2) ................................................................. 1500 375 * 49.55 18,581 

6-month post training survey (time point #3) ................................................... 1500 250 * 49.55 12,388 

12-month post training survey (time point #4) ................................................. 1500 250 * 49.55 12,388 

Annual survey (one-time survey of secondary trainees) ................................. 3000 500 * 49.55 24,775 

Quarterly survey of new tool users .................................................................. 1200 100 * 49.55 4,955 

Total .......................................................................................................... ** 5,700 1,850 NA 91,668 

* Average hourly wage based on the weighted average of wages for 1 Family and General Practitioner (29–1062, $81.78), 1 Internist (29– 

1063, $86.20), 1 Physician Assistant (29–1071, $44.96), 1 Psychiatrist (29–1066, $95.33), 1 Nurse Practitioner (29–1171, $44.48), 3 Registered 

Nurses (29–1141, $34.23), 1 Pharmacist (29–1051, $59.87), 1 Licensed Practical or Licensed Vocational Nurse (29–2061, $21.17), 1 Health Educator (21–1091, $20.52), and 1 Administrative Services Manager (11–3011, $37.61). Data Source: National Occupational Employment and 

Wage Estimates in the United States, May 2012, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’’ (available at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4 621400.htm). 

** Estimated total number of unique respondents. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the above-cited 

Paperwork Reduction Act legislation, 

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 health care research and 

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: June 6, 2014. 

Richard Kronick, 

AHRQ Director. 

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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: ‘‘The 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality (AHRQ) Health Care 

Innovations Exchange Innovator 

Interview and Innovator Email 

Submission Guidelines.’’ In accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3521, AHRQ invites the 

public to comment on this proposed 

information collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on March 28th, 2014 and 

allowed 60 days for public comment. No 

comments were received. The purpose 

of this notice is to allow an additional 

30 days for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by July 17, 2014. 

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: 

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

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

‘‘The Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care 

Innovations Exchange Innovator 

Interview and Innovator Email 

Submission Guidelines.’’ 

This request for Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) review is for renewal 

of the existing collection that is 

currently approved under OMB Control 

No. 0935–0147, AHRQ Health Care 

Innovations Exchange Innovator 

Interview and AHRQ Health Care 

Innovations Exchange Innovator Email 

Submission Guidelines, which expires 

on May 31, 2014. 

The Health Care Innovations 

Exchange provides a national-level 

information hub to foster the 

implementation and adaptation of 

innovative strategies and policies that 

improve health care quality and reduce 

disparities in the care received by 

different populations. The Innovations 

Exchange’s target audiences, broadly 

defined, are current and potential 

change agents in the U.S. health care 

system, including clinicians (e.g., 

physicians, nurses, and other 

providers), health care administrators, 

quality improvement professionals, 

researchers, educators, and 

policymakers. 

The goals of the Health Care 

Innovations Exchange are to: 

(1) Identify health care service 

delivery and policy innovations and 

provide a national level repository of 

searchable innovations and tools that 

enables health care decision makers to 

quickly identify ideas and tools that 

meet their needs. These innovations 

come from many care settings including 

inpatient facilities, outpatient facilities, 

long term care organizations, health 

plans, and community care settings. 

They also represent many patient 

populations, disease conditions, and 

processes of care such as preventive, 

acute, and chronic care. 

(2) Foster the implementation and 

adoption of health care service delivery 

and policy innovations that improve 

health care quality and reduce 

disparities in the care received by 

different populations. 

This data collection is being 

conducted by AHRQ through its 

contractor, Westat, pursuant to AHRQ’s 

statutory authority (1) to conduct and 

support research on, and disseminate 

information on, health care and on 

systems for the delivery of such care, 42 

U.S.C. 299a(a), and (2) to promote 

innovation in evidence-based health 

care practices and technologies by 

promoting education and training and 

providing technical assistance in the use 

of health care practice results, 42 U.S.C. 

299b–5(a)(4). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve the first goal of the 

Innovations Exchange the following 

data collections will be implemented: 

(1) Email submission—Based on 

experience during the current approval 

period, approximately 10% of the health 

care innovations considered for 

inclusion annually, and their associated 

innovators, will submit their 

innovations via email to the Innovations 

Exchange without prior contact (about 8 

annually). Innovators who submit their 

innovations for possible publication 

through the email submission process 

will be considered as will innovations 

identified by project staff through an 

array of sources that include: published 

literature, conference proceedings, news 

items, list serves, Federal agencies and 

other government programs and 

resources, health care foundations, and 

health care associations. 

• To meet the publication target of 75 

new innovation profiles per year, a 

purposive sample of approximately 76 

health care innovations will be 

identified and selected annually, in 

addition to the email submissions, for a 

total of 84 innovations considered 

annually for potential consideration. 

These innovations will be selected to 

ensure that innovations included in the 

Innovations Exchange cover a broad 

range of health care settings, care 

processes, policies, priority populations, 

and clinical conditions. Based on 

experience, approximately 10% of the 

candidate innovations either will not 

meet the inclusion criteria or their 

innovators will decide not to continue 

their participation after the interview. 

Therefore, 90% (75) of the 84 candidate 

innovations will move into the 

publication stage each year. 

(2) Health care innovator interview— 

To collect and verify the information 

required for the innovation profiles, 

health care innovators will be 

interviewed by telephone about the 

following aspects of their innovation: 

health care problem addressed, impetus 

for the innovation, goals of the 

innovation, description of the 

innovation, sources of funding, 

evaluation results for the innovation, 

setting for the innovation, history of 

planning and implementation for the 

innovation, and lessons learned 

concerning the implementation of the 

innovation. Interviews will be 

conducted with innovators identified by 

project staff and those identified 

through email submission. 

(3) Annual follow-up reviews—After 

the innovation profile is published, on 

a yearly basis, innovators will be 

contacted by email to review and update 

their profiles. 

The ultimate decision to publish a 

detailed profile of an innovation 

depends on several factors, including an 

evaluation by AHRQ, AHRQ’s priorities, 

and the number of similar ideas in the 

Innovations Exchange. AHRQ’s 

priorities include identifying and 

highlighting innovations (1) that will 

help reduce disparities in health care 

and health status; (2) that will have 

significant impact on the overall value 

of health care; (3) where the innovators 

have a strong interest in participating; 

and (4) that have been supported by 

AHRQ. 

The AHRQ Health Care Innovations 

Exchange’s use of the interview guide 

and email submission guidelines assists 

in determining if the suggested 

innovation: (1) Meets established 

eligibility criteria of the Innovation 

Exchange, and (2) addresses AHRQ’s 

priorities. 

Access to the AHRQ Health Care 

Innovations Exchange is freely available 

to the public at http://www.innovations.

ahrq.gov/. Diverse groups use the 

Innovations Exchange, ranging from 

nurses and health administrators, 

quality improvement professionals, 

researchers and educators. See http://

www.innovations.ahrq.gov/aboutaspx 

which displays information about 

Innovations Exchange users by role for 

2012–2013. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated 

annualized burden hours for the 

respondents’ time to participate in this 

project. Approximately 84 innovators 

will participate in the initial data 

collection each year with 75 of those 

being published to the Innovations 

Exchange Web site. About 8 innovations 

will be submitted by email, which 

requires 30 minutes. All 84 potential 

innovators will participate in the health 

care innovator interview, including the 

8 submitted via email. The interview 

will last about 75 minutes, and an 

average additional 30 minutes is 

typically required for the innovator to 

review, comment on, and approve the 

written profile. 

Based on experience, approximately 

10% of the candidate innovations either 

will not meet the inclusion criteria or 

their innovators will decide not to 

continue their participation after the 

interview. Therefore, 90% (75) of the 84 

candidate innovations will move into 


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the publication stage each year. Annual 

follow-up reviews will be conducted 

with all innovations that have been in 

the Innovations Exchange for at least 

one full year. With an expected total of 

825 innovations in the Exchange by the 

end of the current approval period, and 

an additional 225 to be added over the 

course of the next 3-year approval 

period (75 per year), an average of 800 

reviews will be conducted annually and 

will require about 15 minutes to 

complete. The number of profiles 

undergoing annual review will increase 

annually from 825 in the first year, to 

900 in the second year, and 975 in the 

third year. The average annualized 

number of annual follow-up reviews is 

projected to be 800 as it is anticipated 

that approximately 100 profiles will be 

archived over three years. Archived 

profiles are excluded from annual 

review. The total annualized burden is 

estimated to be 347 hours. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Email submission ............................................................................................. 8 1 30/60 4 

Health care innovator interview ....................................................................... 84 1 75/60 105 

Innovator review and approval of written profile ............................................. 75 1 30/60 38 

Annual follow-up reviews ................................................................................. 800 1 15/60 200 

Total .......................................................................................................... 967 ........................ ........................ 347 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden associated with 

the respondents’ time to participate in 

this project. The total annualized cost 

burden is estimated to be $21,220. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Total burden 

hours 

Average 

hourly wage 

rate * 

Total cost 

burden 

Email submission ............................................................................................. 8 4 $61.15 $245 

Health care innovator interview ....................................................................... 84 105 61.15 6,421 

Innovator review and approval of written profile ............................................. 75 38 61.15 2,324 

Annual follow-up reviews ................................................................................. 800 200 61.15 12,230 

Total .......................................................................................................... 967 347 ........................ 21,220 

* Average hourly wage rate for health care innovators is based upon statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 

Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2012 (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm), and was calculated as an average of the 

mean hourly wage rate for Family and General Practitioners and the mean hourly wage for all occupations in the major group, ‘‘Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations’’. 

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 health care 

research and health care 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: May 29, 2014. 

Richard Kronick, 

AHRQ Director. 

[FR Doc. 2014–14082 Filed 6–16–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

National Advisory Council for 

Healthcare Research and Quality: 

Request for Nominations for Public 

Members 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of request for 

nominations for public members. 

SUMMARY: 42 U.S.C. 299c establishes a 

National Advisory Council for 

Healthcare Research and Quality (the 

Council). The Council is to advise the 

Secretary of HHS (Secretary) and the 

Director of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) on 

matters related to activities of the 

Agency to improve the quality, safety, 

efficiency, and effectiveness of health 

care for all Americans. 

Seven current members’ terms will 

expire in November 2014. To fill these 

positions, we are seeking individuals 

who are distinguished: (1) In the 

conduct of research, demonstration 

projects, and evaluations with respect to 

health care; (2) in the fields of health 

care quality research or health care 

improvement; (3) in the practice of 

medicine; (4) in other health 

professions; (5) in representing the 

private health care sector (including 

health plans, providers, and purchasers) 

or administrators of health care delivery 

systems; (6) in the fields of health care 


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