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individuals via a verbal or written 

exchange and is only collected to 

facilitate beneficiary case resolution. 

Authorized users may use the PII/PHI to 

obtain and verify TRICARE eligibility, 

treatment, payment, and other 

healthcare operations information for a 

specific individual. All data collected is 

voluntarily given by the individual. At 

any time during the case resolution 

process, individuals may object to the 

collection of PHI and PII via verbal or 

written notice. Individuals are informed 

that without PII/PHI the authorized user 

of the system may not be able to assist 

in case resolution, and that answers to 

questions/concerns would be 

generalities regarding the topic at hand. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Annual Burden Hours: 63,500. 

Number of Respondents: 254,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Frequency: Daily. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

The TRICARE Management Activity 

Beneficiary Education and Support 

Division designed the ART as a secure, 

(Department of Defense Information 

Assurance Certification and 

Accreditation Process-certified with a 

Privacy Impact Assessment on file with 

the TMA Privacy and Civil Liberties 

office) web-based system to track, refer, 

reflect, and report workload associated 

with resolution of beneficiary and/or 

provider inquiries. The ART is also the 

primary means by which MMSO staff 

capture medical authorization 

determinations and claims assistance 

information for remotely located service 

members, line of duty care, and for care 

under the Transitional Care for Servicerelated Conditions benefit. 

Users are comprised of MHS customer 

service personnel, to include 

Beneficiary Counseling and Assistance 

Coordinators, Debt Collection 

Assistance Officers, MMSO staff, 

personnel, family support, recruiting 

command, case managers, and others 

who serve in a customer service support 

role. Only individuals with a valid 

need-to-know demonstrated by assigned 

official Government duties are granted 

access to the ART. These individuals 

must satisfy all personnel security 

criteria with special protection 

measures or restricted distribution as 

established by the data owner. 

ART data reflects the customer service 

mission within the MHS: it helps 

customer service staff users prioritize 

and manage their case workload; it 

allows users to track beneficiary inquiry 

workload and resolution, of which a 

major component is educating 

beneficiaries on their TRICARE benefits. 

PHI and PII entered into the system is 

received from individuals via a verbal or 

written exchange and is only collected 

to facilitate beneficiary case resolution. 

Authorized users may use the PII/PHI to 

obtain and verify TRICARE eligibility, 

treatment, payment, and other 

healthcare operations information for a 

specific individual. All data collected is 

voluntarily given by the individual. At 

any time during the case resolution 

process, individuals may object to the 

collection of PHI and PII via verbal or 

written notice. Individuals are informed 

that without PII/PHI the authorized user 

of the system may not be able to assist 

in case resolution, and that answers to 

questions/concerns would be 

generalities regarding the topic at hand. 

Dated: November 26, 2012. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2012–28861 Filed 11–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–HA–2012–0148] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Health Affairs announces the proposed 

extension of a public information 

collection and seeks public comment on 

the provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by January 28, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, 2nd floor, Suite 02G09, 

Alexandria VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Program Manager, 

Defense Health Information 

Management System (DHIMS), ATTN: 

COL Aaron J. Silver, 5109 Leesburg 

Pike, Skyline 6, Suite 703, Falls Church, 

VA 22041, or call DHIMS, at (703) 681– 

7122. 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Enterprise Blood Management 

System (EBMS); OMB Control Number 

0720–TBD. 

Needs And Uses: EBMS is a family of 

related automated information systems 

(AIS) comprised of two separate and 

distinct commercial-off-the-shelf 

(COTS) software applications that 

provides the Military Health System 

(MHS) with a comprehensive enterprise 

wide Blood Donor Management System 

(BDMS) and a Blood Management Blood 

Bank and Transfusion Service (BMBB/ 

TS). 

• The Blood Donor Management 

System (BDMS) employs two separate 

COTS software applications, Mediware 

Corporation’s LifeTrak DonorTM and 

LifeTrak Lab & DistributionTM. BDMS is 

a technology modernization effort 

intended to enhance the DoD’s Blood 

Program capabilities for Donor Centers 

through the seamless integration of 

blood products inventory management, 

transport, availability, and most 

importantly, blood and blood products 

traceability from collection to 

disposition within the electronic health 

record (EHR). 

• The Blood Management Blood Bank 

Transfusion Service (BMBB/TS) 

employs two separate COTS software 

applications, Mediware Corporation’s 


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HCLLTM (Transfusion) and 

KnowledgeTrakTM (Learning 

Management). BMBB/TS is an effort 

intended to enhance the DoD’s Blood 

Program capabilities for a seamless 

integration of blood banking and 

transfusion activities, products 

inventory management, transport, 

availability, and most importantly 

traceability from transfusion to 

disposition or destruction within the 

electronic health record (EHR). 

EBMS has built-in safeguards to limit 

access and visibility of personal or 

sensitive information in accordance 

with the Privacy Act of 1974. The 

application will account for everyone 

that donates blood and receives a blood 

transfusion in the MHS—Active Duty, 

Reserves, National Guard, government 

civilian, contractors and volunteers 

assigned or borrowed—this also 

includes non-appropriated fund 

employees and foreign nationals. 

Affected Public: Contractors, civilian 

and foreign nationals donating to the 

Military Health Systems. 

Annual Burden Hours: 766. 

Number of Respondents: 4,600. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

In order to attain standardization, 

ensure a safe blood product, and comply 

with Federal law, all Military blood 

facilities are licensed and/or registered 

by the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA) and must operate according to 

Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, 

Part 211, Current Good Manufacturing 

Practices for Finished Pharmaceuticals, 

Part 610 series, Biologics, and Part 820 

series, Medical Devices. 

The EBMS Mediware Corporation 

developed COTS are FDA 510K cleared 

Medical Devices that provides the 

Military Health System (MHS) with a 

comprehensive enterprise wide Blood 

Donor Management System (BDMS) and 

Blood Management Blood Banking and 

Transfusion Service (BMBB/TS) with 

capabilities to manage blood donors 

(both in-house and at mobile collection 

sites), manage blood products both fresh 

and frozen throughout the collection, 

processing, testing, storing, and 

shipping procedures; interface with 

testing instrumentation for enterprise 

(Global) results management; shipping 

blood with in-transit visibility and 

shipping data transmit and receive; 

automate, enterprise-wide ‘‘lookback’’ 

for donors, patients, and products; 

automated, blood order issue, and 

transfusion records; manage enterprise 

inventory (Global), including Theater 

and VA. It has built-in safeguards to 

limit access and visibility of personal or 

sensitive information in accordance 

with the Privacy Act of 1974. The 

application will account for everyone 

that donate blood and receive blood 

transfusion in the MHS—Active Duty, 

Reserves, National Guard, government 

civilian, contractors and volunteers 

assigned or borrowed—this also 

includes non appropriated fund 

employees and foreign nationals. 

EBMS is an n-tier enterprise solution. 

The solution will use COTS products, 

installed at a Central Server location. 

EBMS has applicability at the 

headquarters level allowing Armed 

Services Blood Program (ASBP) which 

is delineated in several regulations, 

including DoDD 6000.12, DoDI 6480.4, 

and AR10–64 and Service Blood 

Program Office (SBPO) to use this 

product to conduct its own day-to-day 

blood inventory management. This 

comprehensive tool provides the 

capability to manage inventory, monitor 

adverse trends, review lookback cases, 

manage donor deferrals and develop 

standard operation procedure. Deciding 

to implement EBMS within MHS 

provides an enterprise solution for 

transfusion and donor processing that 

can be applied to enterprise-wide blood 

inventory, and traceability throughout 

patient and donor life. 

The information in EBMS is personal 

or sensitive; therefore, it contains builtin safeguards to limit access and 

visibility of this information. EBMS uses 

role-based security so a user sees only 

the information for which permission 

has been granted. It uses state-of-themarket 128-bit encryption security for 

our transactions. It is DoD Information 

Assurance Certification and 

Accreditation Process (DIACAP) 

certified having been subjected to and 

passed thorough security testing and 

evaluation by independent parties. It 

meets safeguards specified by the 

Privacy Act of 1974 in that it maintains 

a published Department of Defense 

(DoD) Privacy Impact Assessment and 

System of Record covering Active Duty 

Military, Reserve, National Guard, and 

government civilian employees, to 

include non-appropriated fund 

employees and foreign nationals, DoD 

contractors, and volunteers. EBMS is 

hosted in a secure facility managed by 

the MHS Cyber-Infrastructure Services 

(MCIS). 

Dated: November 26, 2012. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2012–28863 Filed 11–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2012–HA–0145] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Health Affairs announces the proposed 

extension of a public information 

collection and seeks public comment on 

the provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by January 28, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, 2nd floor, Suite 02G09, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number, and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 


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