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1Public Law 104–191, 110 Stat. 1936 (Aug. 21, 

1996), available at: https://www.congress.gov/104/ 

plaws/publ191/PLAW-104publ191.pdf. 

2Public Law 111–148, 124 Stat. 119 (Mar. 23, 

2010), available at https://www.congress.gov/111/ 

plaws/publ148/PLAW-111publ148.pdf. 

3NCVHS Standards Subcommittee Project Scope: 

Standardization of Information for Burden 

Reduction and Post-Pandemic America 

(‘‘Convergence 2.0’’), available at https://

ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ 

NCVHS-SS-project-scoping-convergence-2021-06- 

21-508.pdf. NCVHS Predictability Roadmap work, 

which addressed the need for the HIPAA standards 

to be adopted on a regular cadence, has evolved 

into a convergence project with a broader scope. 

The Subcommittee has been considering whether 

opportunities exist for updates to the HIPAA 

regulatory framework as well as standards adoption. 

In addition to these foundational topics, the 

Committee has incorporated the harmonization of 

public health and clinical standards in its scope, 

particularly with their relevance to interoperable 

data exchange. Underlying the data flows are 

privacy and security considerations. 

nursing with advanced education 

nursing programs; accredited allopathic 

schools of medicine; accredited schools 

of osteopathic medicine, dentistry, 

pharmacy, and graduate programs in 

behavioral or mental health; schools of 

nursing; nurse managed health clinics/ 

centers; academic health centers; state 

or local governments; public or private 

nonprofit entities determined 

appropriate by the Secretary; and 

consortiums and partnerships of eligible 

entities when applicable. 

Burden Statement: Burden in this 

context means the time expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

requested. This includes the time 

needed to review instructions; to 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purpose 

of collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information; to search 

data sources; to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. The total annual burden 

hours estimated for this ICR are 

summarized in the table below. 

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

BHW Program Specific Form .............................................. 2,069 1 2,069 14 28,966 

SDS Application Program Specific Form ............................. 323 1 323 31 10,013 

Total .............................................................................. 2,392 ........................ 2,392 ........................ 38,979 

HRSA specifically requests comments 

on (1) the necessity and utility of the 

proposed information collection for the 

proper performance of the agency’s 

functions, (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected, and (4) the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Committee on Vital and Health 

Statistics 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) announces the following 

advisory committee meeting. This 

meeting is open to the public. The 

public is welcome to obtain the link to 

attend this meeting by following the 

instructions posted on the Committee 

website: https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/ 

meetings/standards-subcommitteemeeting-3/. 

NAME: National Committee on Vital and 

Health Statistics (NCVHS), Meeting of 

the Subcommittee on Standards. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Thursday, June 9, 2022: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 

p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Virtual open meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Substantive program information may 

be obtained from Rebecca Hines, MHS, 

Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National 

Center for Health Statistics, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 

Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 

20782, or via electronic mail to vgh4@

cdc.gov; or by telephone (301) 458– 

4715. Summaries of meetings and a 

roster of Committee members are 

available on the home page of the 

NCVHS website https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/, 

where further information including an 

agenda and instructions to access the 

broadcast of the meeting will be posted. 

Should you require reasonable 

accommodation, please telephone the 

CDC Office of Equal Employment 

Opportunity at (770) 488–3210 as soon 

as possible. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose: As outlined in its Charter, 

the National Committee on Vital and 

Health Statistics assists and advises the 

Secretary of HHS on health data, data 

standards, statistics, privacy, national 

health information policy, and the 

Department’s strategy to best address 

those issues. This includes the adoption 

and implementation of transaction 

standards, unique identifiers, and code 

sets adopted under the Health Insurance 

Portability and Accountability Act of 

1996 (HIPAA),1 and operating rules 

adopted under the Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act (ACA).2

Based on input and information 

gathered during its current project, 

‘‘Standardization of Information for 

Burden Reduction and Post-Pandemic 

America’’ (Convergence 2.0), NCVHS is 

working to finalize strategic concepts for 

health information technology standards 

to support more expansive health data 

flows than are currently encompassed 

under HIPAA and other federal 

legislation.3 Data flows common today 

did not exist at the time the HIPAA 

frameworks were adopted in regulation, 

e.g., HIPAA is statutorily limited to 

Covered Entities, but patient data now 

flows routinely to other parties who are 

not Covered Entities. The NCVHS 

Subcommittee on Standards’ 

Convergence 2.0 work also assessed the 

strengths and weaknesses of the current 

standards development and federal 

rulemaking processes and would set the 


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4NCVHS Listening Session on Healthcare 

Standards Development, Adoption and 

Implementation, Aug. 25, 2021. Agenda, audio 

recording, transcript, and other meeting materials 

are available at: https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/ 

standards-subcommittee-listening-session/. 

5ONC, Ofc. of the Sec’y, U.S. Dept. of Health & 

Human Services, 2020–2025 Federal Health IT 

Strategic Plan (Oct. 2020), available at https://

www.healthit.gov/topic/2020-2025-federal-health-itstrategic-plan. 

6See U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Svcs., 

NCVHS, Notice of Meeting and Request for Public 

Comment, 86 FR 33318 (June 24, 2021), available 

at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021- 

06-24/pdf/2021-13334.pdf; ‘‘Comments Received in 

Response to Request for Comment: Federal Register 

Notice: 86 FR 33318,’’ available at https://

ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PublicComments-Standards-Subcommittee-ListeningSession-August-25-2021.pdf. 

stage for future directions toward the 

strategic vision. 

The Subcommittee on Standards 

drafted a suite of potential actions for 

consideration for near-term 

improvement of the current standards 

development and rulemaking processes 

informed by the August 21, 2021, 

Listening Session.4 The Committee is 

seeking reaction to this draft set of 

actions from potential end-users, 

standards development organizations 

(SDOs), trade and professional 

organizations, and other members of the 

public. The purpose of this meeting is 

to provide a public forum to obtain this 

feedback. Based on that input, the 

Subcommittee anticipates developing 

recommendations for consideration by 

the full Committee. The draft 

considerations and supporting context 

may be viewed on the NCVHS website 

at https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/DraftConvergence-2-dot-0. 

Summary 

Subtitle F (Administrative 

Simplification) of HIPAA promoted the 

transition of routine business processes 

of health care from mailing and faxing 

of paper documents to electronic 

exchange of standardized data. Health 

data flows, standards, technology, and 

communications infrastructure have all 

evolved radically since HIPAA 

introduced the concept of national 

standards to health care administration. 

Consistent with the Office of the 

National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology’s (ONC) 

Federal Health Information Technology 

Strategic Plan,5 the Subcommittee is 

investigating what would be necessary 

to prepare the U.S. health care system 

for its next leap forward. The 

Subcommittee is proposing for industry 

feedback actions to further a 

comprehensive, integrated health 

information ecosystem that incorporates 

claims, administrative records, digital 

medical records, public health data, and 

data about a patient’s social risk. These 

proposed actions include specific 

updating of standardization processes 

under HIPAA to accommodate new 

business models, technologies, and 

information needs, while protecting 

investments in legacy standards that 

have demonstrably succeeded in 

producing HIPAA’s intended 

efficiencies and cost reductions. 

As noted above, to inform this 

rethinking and updating, NCVHS’ 

Convergence 2.0 project solicited input 

from industry on the HIPAA regulatory 

framework and the standards update 

processes in a public Listening Session 

on August 25, 2021. During the 

Listening Session, representatives of 

industry testified that current processes 

do not fit with the cadence needed to 

meet their business needs. They further 

advocated that options and alternatives 

for a modernized framework should be 

considered to support current and 

future needs, including additional 

harmonization of clinical, public health 

(including vital records), and other 

standards with HIPAA standards. The 

implication is that options or 

alternatives would need to consider 

significant portions of work done by 

ONC and its Health Information 

Technology Advisory Committee on 

electronic health records, data exchange 

networks, and an interoperability 

framework. 

Based on its analysis of the input of 

expert panels and members of the 

public who responded to a Request for 

Public Comment,6 the Committee 

continues to investigate whether the 

HIPAA framework is in need of 

modernization. 

The Committee will invite statements 

from representatives of stakeholder 

organizations, and the agenda also will 

include time for public comment. 

Meeting times and topics are subject to 

change. Please refer to the agenda 

posted at the NCVHS website for this 

meeting for updates at: https://

ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/standardssubcommittee-meeting-3/. 

Sharon Arnold, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, Science 

and Data Policy, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

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 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Microbiology, 

Infectious Diseases and AIDS Initial Review 

Group; Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research Study Section Microbiology and 

Infectious Diseases Research Study Section. 

Date: June 16–17, 2022. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Room 3F40A, 

Rockville, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Robert C. Unfer, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Program, Division of Extramural Activities, 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 

Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 

Fishers Lane, Room 3F40A, Rockville, MD 

20852, (240) 669–5035, robert.unfer@nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology, 

and Transplantation Research; 93.856, 

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: May 19, 2022. 

Tyeshia M. Roberson-Curtis, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 


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