The High Cost of Rapid Transformation
AHRQ / OMB Request
Efforts to develop consensus and seek public input are costly and time-consuming. Some data on one ambitious program has this summer been presented and the results of the ongoing analysis may do much to help states understand the time and effort required to advance health care agenda more broadly.
In the Wednesday, June 7 Federal Register (v. 71, n. 109, p 32964) AHRQ requested the OMB for information collection as part of an AHRQ contract for "Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Electronic Health Information Exchange"). The Document states that the process would involve 12,759 stakeholders each taking three hours for a total burden of 38,250 hours.
Comments on the AHRQ information collection were requested with regard to any of the following:
The answers to these questions will have implications for all state efforts to effect change and may cause additional review into the ways to improve the federal contracting process.
Efforts to develop consensus and seek public input are costly and time-consuming. Some data on one ambitious program has this summer been presented and the results of the ongoing analysis may do much to help states understand the time and effort required to advance health care agenda more broadly.
In the Wednesday, June 7 Federal Register (v. 71, n. 109, p 32964) AHRQ requested the OMB for information collection as part of an AHRQ contract for "Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Electronic Health Information Exchange"). The Document states that the process would involve 12,759 stakeholders each taking three hours for a total burden of 38,250 hours.
Comments on the AHRQ information collection were requested with regard to any of the following:
- Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of functions of AHRQ, including whether the information will have practical utility
- the accuracy of the AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and cost) ofthe proposed collection of information; and
- ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and
- ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques of other forms of information technology.
- Follow this link for the AHRQ RFP
- Follow this link for the request for review
- Dr. Carolyn Clancey's broader testimony to a senate subcommittee. June 21, 2006
- What is Earned Value Management? Section 300.4 of OMB Circular A-11
- Capital Programming Guide Supplement to Part 7 of Circular A-11 (PDF Version)
- DoD Earned Value Management Web Resource
- November 14, 2001 Memo from OMB concerning compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
The answers to these questions will have implications for all state efforts to effect change and may cause additional review into the ways to improve the federal contracting process.
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