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3 Data federation provides an organization with 

the ability to aggregate data from disparate sources 

in a virtual database so it can be used for business 

intelligence or other analysis. 

headquarters are clearly defined and 

implemented. 

6. Effectively collaborate with other IHS 

offices (e.g., the Loan Repayment Program) 

and HHS Staff and Operating Divisions 

where missions, goals, and authorities 

overlap. 

Objective 3.2: Secure and effectively 

manage the assets and resources. 

Objective Explanation: This objective 

supports the delivery of health care through 

improved management of all types of assets 

and non-workforce resources. To elevate the 

health status of the AI/AN population and 

increase access to medical care, IHS must 

continue to help ensure patients understand 

their health care options and improve 

business process and efficiencies to the 

health care system. IHS will also increase the 

effectiveness of operations and reporting, 

while providing more assistance and 

infrastructure support to Areas and facilities. 

Strategies—The following strategies 

support this objective: 

Infrastructure, Capacity, and 

Sustainability: 

1. Enhance transparency of the IHS 

management and accountability 

infrastructure to properly manage and secure 

assets. 

2. Ensure that Federal, State, Tribal, 

territorial, and local Tribal health programs 

have the necessary infrastructure to 

effectively provide essential public health 

services. 

3. Provide technical assistance to 

strengthen the capacity of service units and 

Area Offices to enhance effective 

management and oversight. 

4. Apply economic principles and methods 

to assure ongoing security and sustainability 

of Federal, Tribal and Urban Indian facilities. 

Improved Business Process: 

5. Routinely review management 

operations to effectively improve key 

business management practices. 

6. Optimize business functions to ensure 

IHS is engaged in discussions on value-based 

purchasing. 

7. Develop policies, use tools, and apply 

models that ensure efficient use of assets and 

resources. 

8. Strengthen management and operations 

through effective oversight. 

9. Develop standardized management 

strategies for grants, contracts, and other 

funding opportunities to promote innovation 

and excellence in operations and outcomes. 

Patient Education and Resources: 

10. Strengthen patients’ awareness of their 

health care options, including Medicaid and 

Medicare enrollment, which may increase 

access to health care and optimize third party 

reimbursements. 

Objective 3.3: Modernize information 

technology and information systems to 

support data driven decisions. 

Objective Explanation: This objective is to 

assure the availability and ongoing 

improvement of a comprehensive 

information technology (IT) system that 

meets the needs of providers, patients, and 

I/T/Us, including using technology to 

provide improved, timely access to care and 

to reduce the need for transit. This objective 

recognizes that qualified and capable IT staff 

and leadership are fundamental in achieving 

the strategies listed below and further 

reinforces the workforce objectives outlined 

elsewhere in the plan. An improved Indian 

health IT network increases access to 

integrated clinical, administrative, and 

financial data to support individual patient 

care, decision-making, and advocacy. The 

need for data will require the development of 

a system integrated with Tribal and Urban 

Indian programs that will address the current 

and projected clinical, administrative, and 

fiscal data needs. Timely fiscal data 

dissemination to all Federal partners when 

developing budgets is necessary to accurately 

address health care needs of Indian 

communities. Data quality (i.e., accuracy, 

reliability, and validity) and quality patient 

care will continue to play a highly visible 

role both within and outside the IHS. Data 

quality is only partially dependent upon 

technology. Improved data quality also 

reflects other sustained initiatives, such as 

accuracy of data entry, legibility of 

handwriting, appropriate and timely data 

exports, and accuracy of coding. 

Strategies—The following strategies 

support this objective: 

Health Information Technology (HIT): 

1. Evaluate electronic health record needs 

of the IHS and the ability for the health 

information systems to meet those needs, 

create seamless data linkages, and meet data 

access needs for Tribes and Tribal program 

health information systems. 

2. Develop a consistent, robust, stable, 

secure, state-of-the-art HIT system to support 

clinicians workflow, improve data collection, 

and provide regular and ongoing data 

analysis. 

3. Modernize the HIT system for IHS 

Resource and Patient Management System 

(RPMS) or commercial off-the-shelf packages. 

4. Align with universal patient record 

systems to link off-reservation care systems 

that serve AI/AN. 

5. Enhance and expand technology such as 

the IHS telecom to provide access for 

consultative care, stabilization of care, 

decreased transportation, and timeliness of 

care at any IHS-funded health program. 

Data Process: 

6. Provide available data to inform decision 

making for internal and external 

stakeholders. 

7. Act upon performance data and 

standardize data and reporting requirements. 

8. Assure system of data sharing to solidify 

partnerships with Tribal Epidemiology 

Centers and other Tribal programs. 

9. Establish capability for data federation 3

so that data analytics/business intelligence 

may be applied to disparate data stored in a 

single, general-purpose database that can 

hold many types of data and distribute that 

data to users anywhere on the network. 

Note: This draft plan is developed for 

public consideration, it is intended to 

improve the management and administration 

of the IHS and strategic direction of the 

Agency over the next 5 years, and it is not 

intended to create any right, benefit, or legal 

responsibility, substantive or procedural, 

enforceable at law by a party against the 

United States, its agencies, or any person. 

The IHS will publish an additional 

Federal Register Notice with the final 

IHS Strategic Plan FY 2018–2022 after 

all comments are received and 

considered. 

Dated: July 16, 2018. 

Michael D. Weahkee, 

RADM, Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. 

Public Health Service, Acting Director, Indian 

Health Service. 

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Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Special Emphasis Panel; NCI 

Program Project I (P01). 

Date: September 17–18, 2018. 

Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

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Place: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & 

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Contact Person: Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D., 

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Review Branch, Division of Extramural 

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I (P50) Review. 

Date: September 25, 2018. 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

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Contact Person: Caron A. Lyman, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Research Program 

Review Branch, Division of Extramural 

Activities, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 

9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7W126, 

Bethesda, MD 20892–9750, 240–276–6348, 

lymanc@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Special Emphasis Panel; NCI 

SPORE II. 

Date: September 26–27, 2018. 

Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Gaithersburg Marriott 

Washingtonian Center, 9751 Washington 

Boulevard, Gaithersburg, MD 20878. 

Contact Person: Klaus B. Piontek, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Research Program 

Review Branch, Division of Extramural 

Activities, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 

9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7W116, 

Bethesda, MD 20892–9750, 240–276–7849, 

klaus.piontek@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Special Emphasis Panel; SEP–3: NCI 

Clinical and Translational Exploratory/ 

Developmental Studies. 

Date: October 10–11, 2018. 

Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Residence Inn Bethesda, 7335 

Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. 

Contact Person: Ombretta Salvucci, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Research Program 

Review Branch, Division of Extramural 

Activities, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 

9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7W264, 

Bethesda, MD 20892–9750, 240–276–7286, 

salvucco@mail.nih.gov. 

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Program Nos. 93.392, Cancer Construction; 

93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention 

Research; 93.394, Cancer Detection and 

Diagnosis Research; 93.395, Cancer 

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology 

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support; 

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399, 

Cancer Control, National Institutes of Health, 

HHS) 

Dated: July 17, 2018. 

Melanie J. Pantoja, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

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provisions set forth in sections 

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Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special 

Emphasis Panel; AGI Prevention. 

Date: August 21, 2018. 

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 5601 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20892 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Lynn Rust, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Program, Division of Extramural Activities, 

Room 3G42A, National Institutes of Health/ 

NIAID, 5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9823, 

Bethesda, MD 20892–9823, (240) 669–5069, 

lrust@niaid.nih.gov. 

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Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology, 

and Transplantation Research; 93.856, 

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: July 18, 2018. 

Natasha M. Copeland, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day 

Comment Request; DERT Extramural 

Grantee Data Collection (NIEHS) 

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a request for review 

and approval of the information 

collection listed below. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

information collection are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30-days of the date of this 

publication. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or 

suggestions regarding the item(s) 

contained in this notice, especially 

regarding the estimated public burden 

and associated response time, should be 

directed to the: Office of Management 

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OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by 

fax to 202–395–6974, Attention: Desk 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

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Pettibone, Evaluator, Program Analysis 

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Room 3064, Morrisville, NC 20560, or 

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or Email your request, including your 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposed information collection was 

previously published in the Federal 

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Number 50, page 19073–19074 and 

allowed 60-days for public comment. 

No public comments were received. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow an 

additional 30 days for public comment. 

The National Institute of 

Environmental Health Sciences 

(NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, 

may not conduct or sponsor, and the 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection that has 

been extended, revised, or implemented 

on or after October 1, 1995, unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

In compliance with Section 

3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for review and 

approval of the information collection 

listed below. 

Proposed Collection: DERT 

Extramural Grantee Data Collection, 

0925–0657, Expiration Date 06/30/ 

2015—Revision, National Institute of 

Environmental Health Sciences 

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(NIH). 

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Collection: In order to make informed 

management decisions about its 

research programs and to demonstrate 

the outputs, outcomes and impacts of its 

research programs NIEHS will collect, 

analyze and report on data from 

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funding in the past on topics such as: (1) 

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