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DATES: Meeting Dates: May 7th from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m. and May 8th from 8:30 

a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time (EST). 

Deadline for Meeting Registration and 

Comments: April 30th, 2012, 5 p.m., 

EST. 

Deadline for Requesting Special 

Accommodations: April 30th, 2012, 5 

p.m., EST. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting Location: Crystal 

Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis 

Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. 

Meeting Registration: To register, visit 

the Resources page on the CCIIO Web 

site at http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/ 

other/index.html#fm.Written 

Comments: Jeffrey Davis, Center for 

Consumer Information and Insurance 

Oversight, CMS, 200 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201, 

Phone: 301–492–4270, Fax: 301–492– 

4462, or contact by email at 

RAspringmeeting@cms.hhs.gov. Written 

comments must be submitted in 

Microsoft Word format. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please send inquiries about the logistics 

of the meeting to 

logistics@isomglobal.com and about the 

content of the meeting to 

RAspringmeeting@cms.hhs.gov. Press 

inquiries are handled through CCIIO’s 

Press Office at (202) 690–6343. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

This notice announces a meeting on 

the risk adjustment program required 

under section 1343 of the Affordable 

Care Act. The purpose of this meeting 

is to provide information to States, 

issuers, and interested parties about the 

risk adjustment program. This meeting 

will provide an opportunity to hear 

from a variety of interested parties as 

the Federal risk adjustment 

methodology is being developed and we 

are working through operational issues. 

II. Meeting Agenda 

The Spring Risk Adjustment Meeting 

will provide information to States, 

issuers, and interested parties about the 

risk adjustment program. The Risk 

Adjustment Spring Meeting will focus 

on: the risk adjustment model, 

calculation of plan average actuarial 

risk, calculation of payments and 

charges, data collection approach, and 

the schedule for running risk 

adjustment. 

The Risk Adjustment Meeting will 

convene stakeholders including State 

governments, industry representatives, 

and other interested parties. The Risk 

Adjustment Meeting will provide the 

public with further detail about the risk 

adjustment methodology that is 

currently being developed by HHS and 

the operational framework for risk 

adjustment when HHS is operating the 

program on behalf of a State. In 

addition, the Risk Adjustment Meeting 

will provide stakeholders with an 

opportunity to communicate with HHS 

about the risk adjustment program. 

The meeting is open to the public, but 

attendance is limited to the space 

available. There are capabilities for 

remote access. Persons wishing to 

attend this meeting must register by the 

date listed in the DATES section above, 

and by visiting the CCIIO Web page 

listed in the ADDRESSES section above. 

Registration will be on a first-come, 

first-serve basis, limited to three 

attendees per organization. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program No. 93.778, Medical Assistance 

Program; No. 93.773 Medicare—Hospital 

Insurance Program; and No. 93.774, 

Medicare—Supplementary Medical 

Insurance Program. 

Dated: April 5, 2012. 

Marilyn Tavenner, 

Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare 

& Medicaid Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Announcement of Requirements and 

Registration for ‘‘Reporting Patient 

Safety Events Challenge’’ 

AGENCY: Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology, HHS. 

Award Approving Official: Farzad 

Mostashari, National Coordinator for 

Health Information Technology. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Patient Safety Organizations 

(PSOs) listed by the Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality 

(AHRQ) create a safe environment for 

health care providers to collect, 

aggregate, and analyze data without fear 

of legal discovery. Hospitals struggle to 

increase internal incident reporting, 

especially by busy physicians and 

nurses, and to create effective systems 

for the quality and risk management 

staff to do root cause analyses and 

follow-up. The ‘‘Reporting Patient 

Safety Events Challenge’’ asks multidisciplinary teams to develop an 

application that facilitates the reporting 

of patient safety events, whether 

implemented in hospital or ambulatory 

settings. The solution needs to make it 

easier for any individual to file a report 

electronically, using Common Formats 

but allowing for additional elements 

and narratives. It must allow the 

hospital quality and risk management 

staff to add information from follow-up 

investigation, submit reports as 

appropriate to PSOs, the state, or the 

FDA (which may differ, and need to be 

tracked separately), and track follow-up 

activities. 

The statutory authority for this 

challenge competition is Section 105 of 

the America COMPETES 

Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 

111–358). 

DATES: Effective on April 11, 2012. 

Challenge submission period ends July 

23, 2012, 11:59 p.m. et. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adam Wong, 202–720–2866; Wil Yu, 

202–690–5920. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Subject of Challenge Competition 

The ‘‘Reporting Patient Safety Events 

Challenge’’ asks multi-disciplinary 

teams to develop an application that 

facilitates the reporting of patient safety 

events, whether implemented in 

hospital or ambulatory settings. This 

application would: 

• Increase the ease of reporting 

patient safety events to the provider or 

parent organization; 

• Enable providers to import relevant 

EMR, PHR, and other electronic 

information, including screen shots, to 

the patient safety report and, in turn, 

submit an AHRQ Common Formatscompliant report to one or more PSOs; 

• Capture useful demographic and 

other relevant information from each 

patient including age, gender, race, and 

relevant diagnoses; 

• Capture information about the type 

of organization submitting the report 

using AHRQ’s PSO Information format; 

• Reduce burden of reporting by 

enabling the provider or parent 

organization to have the option of 

submitting information in the patient 

safety report to non-PSO public health 

or health oversight organizations, 

including state or federal programs or 

accrediting or certifying bodies. 

• Be platform-agnostic; and 

• Leverage and extend NwHIN 

standards and services including, but 

not limited to, transport (Direct, web 

services), content (Transitions of Care, 

CCD/CCR), and standardized 

vocabularies. 

Eligibility Rules for Participating in the 

Competition 

To be eligible to win a prize under 

this challenge, an individual or entity— 

(1) Shall have registered to participate 

in the competition under the rules 


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promulgated by the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology. 

(2) Shall have complied with all the 

requirements under this section. 

(3) In the case of a private entity, shall 

be incorporated in and maintain a 

primary place of business in the United 

States, and in the case of an individual, 

whether participating singly or in a 

group, shall be a citizen or permanent 

resident of the United States. 

(4) May not be a Federal entity or 

Federal employee acting within the 

scope of their employment. 

(5) Shall not be an HHS employee 

working on their applications or 

submissions during assigned duty 

hours. 

(6) Shall not be an employee of Office 

of the National Coordinator for Health 

IT. 

(7) Federal grantees may not use 

Federal funds to develop COMPETES 

Act challenge applications unless 

consistent with the purpose of their 

grant award. 

(8) Federal contractors may not use 

Federal funds from a contract to develop 

COMPETES Act challenge applications 

or to fund efforts in support of a 

COMPETES Act challenge submission. 

An individual or entity shall not be 

deemed ineligible because the 

individual or entity used Federal 

facilities or consulted with Federal 

employees during a competition if the 

facilities and employees are made 

available to all individuals and entities 

participating in the competition on an 

equitable basis. 

Entrants must agree to assume any 

and all risks and waive claims against 

the Federal Government and its related 

entities, except in the case of willful 

misconduct, for any injury, death, 

damage, or loss of property, revenue, or 

profits, whether direct, indirect, or 

consequential, arising from my 

participation in this prize contest, 

whether the injury, death, damage, or 

loss arises through negligence or 

otherwise. 

Entrants must also agree to indemnify 

the Federal Government against third 

party claims for damages arising from or 

related to competition activities. 

Registration Process for Participants 

To register for this challenge 

participants should: 

D Access the www.challenge.gov Web 

site and search for the ‘‘Reporting 

Patient Safety Events Challenge’’. 

D Access the ONC Investing in 

Innovation (i2) Challenge Web site at: 

Æ http://www.health2challenge.org/ 

onc-i2-challenges/. 

Æ A registration link for the challenge 

can be found on the landing page under 

the challenge description. 

Amount of the Prize 

D First Prize: $50,000. 

D Second Prize: $15,000. 

D Third Prize: $5,000. 

Awards may be subject to Federal 

income taxes and HHS will comply with 

IRS withholding and reporting 

requirements, where applicable. 

Payment of the Prize 

Prize will be paid by contractor. 

Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be 

Selected 

The ONC review panel will make 

selections based upon the following 

criteria: 

1. Effectiveness of the system in 

facilitating patient safety event reporting 

including its compliance with AHRQ’s 

Common Formats. 

2. Usability and design from the 

standpoint of all stakeholders. 

3. Ability to integrate with electronic 

health records and other HIT data 

sources. 

4. Creativity and innovation. 

5. Leverage NwHIN standards 

including transport, content, and 

vocabularies. 

Additional Information 

Ownership of intellectual property is 

determined by the following: 

D Each entrant retains title and full 

ownership in and to their submission. 

Entrants expressly reserve all 

intellectual property rights not 

expressly granted under the challenge 

agreement. 

D By participating in the challenge, 

each entrant hereby irrevocably grants 

to Sponsor and Administrator a limited, 

non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, 

license and right to reproduce, 

publically perform, publically display, 

and use the Submission to the extent 

necessary to administer the challenge, 

and to publically perform and 

publically display the Submission, 

including, without limitation, for 

advertising and promotional purposes 

relating to the challenge. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719. 

Dated: April 5, 2012. 

Farzad Mostashari, 

National Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[Docket Number NIOSH–245] 

Expanded Charge for Peer Review of 

the NIOSH document Titled: ‘‘Criteria 

for a Recommended Standard: 

Occupational Exposure to Diacetyl and 

2,3-pentanedione’’ 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of Expanded Charge for 

Peer Review. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) is 

undergoing peer review for the draft 

document, ‘‘Criteria for a 

Recommended Standard: Occupational 

Exposure to Diacetyl and 2,3- 

pentanedione.’’ NIOSH held a public 

meeting on August 26, 2011 in 

Washington, DC [76 FR 44338] to 

discuss and obtain comments on the 

draft document. Public comments were 

accepted into the NIOSH docket from 

August 12, 2011- November 18, 2011 [76 

FR 64353]. The draft document and all 

public comments received are posted on 

the Internet at: http://www.cdc.gov/ 

niosh/docket/archive/docket245.html 

for Docket number NIOSH–245. After 

consultation with the Occupational 

Safety and Health Administration, 

Department of Labor (OSHA/DOL), 

NIOSH has asked the peer reviewers 

seven additional questions for 

consideration which are posted here: 

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/review/peer/ 

HISA/diacetyl-pr.html. 

This entry serves as notice of the 

expanded charge to peer reviewers for 

this draft document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauralynn Taylor McKernan, ScD CIH, 

NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway C–32, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, telephone (513) 

533–8542, Fax (513) 533–8230, email 

LMcKernan@cdc.gov. 

Dated: April 2, 2012. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

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