80 FR 70190 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 219 (November 13, 2015)

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Defense Health Agency, Defense Health Clinical Systems, Data Sharing Program Office, announces a proposed 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.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 219 (Friday, November 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70190-70191]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28829]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket ID DoD-2014-HA-0025]


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Defense Health Agency (DHA), Defense Health Clinical Systems, 
Data Sharing Program Office, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Defense Health Agency, Defense Health Clinical Systems, Data Sharing 
Program Office, announces a proposed 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 
12, 2016.

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: Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Chief 
Management Officer, Directorate of Oversight and Compliance, Regulatory 
and Audit Matters Office, 9010 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-
9010.
    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.
    Any associated form(s) for this collection may be located within 
this same electronic docket and downloaded for review/testing. Follow 
the instructions at http://www.regulations.gov for submitting comments. 
Please submit comments on any given form identified by docket number, 
form number, and title.

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 the Defense Health 
Information Management System (DHIMS), ATTN: Alvaro Rodriguez, 5109 
Leesburg Pike, Skyline 6, Suite 508, Falls Church, VA 22041, or call 
DHIMS, at 703-882-3867.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title; Associated Form; and OMB Number: Health Artifact and Image 
Management Solution (HAIMS); 0720-TBD.
    Needs and Uses: The information collection requirement is necessary 
for HAIMS to provide the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs 
health care providers with global visibility and access to artifacts 
(documents) and images generated during the health care delivery 
process. HAIMS will provide a single enterprise-wide data sharing 
capability for all types of artifacts and images (also known as A&I), 
including radiographs, clinical photographs, electrocardiographs, 
waveforms, audio files, video and scanned documents.
    Affected Public: Individuals and Households; specifically, 
beneficiaries with access to the Military Healthcare system.
    Annual Burden Hours: 500,000.
    Number of Respondents: 8,333,333.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.2.
    Annual Responses: 10,000,000.
    Average Burden per Response: 3 minutes.
    Frequency: On occasion.

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    The Health Artifact and Image Management Solution (HAIMS) will 
provide the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs health care 
providers with global visibility and access to artifacts (documents) 
and images generated during the health care delivery process. HAIMS, a 
Wounded Warrior strategic project, will provide a single enterprise-
wide data sharing capability for all types of artifacts and images 
(also known as A&I), including radiographs, clinical photographs, 
electrocardiographs, waveforms, audio files, video and scanned 
documents.
    HAIMS will provide an enterprise solution utilizing a Service 
Oriented Architecture (SOA) based application with a federated 
infrastructure. The required solution to satisfy the scope of HAIMS 
will consist of industry standard COTS, as well as government off the 
shelf (GOTS). The expected business outcomes have been defined and 
constraints/dependencies have been identified in satisfying the 
functional, technical and system requirements to develop, field and 
support HAIMS throughout the life cycle.
    HAIMS interfaces with external repositories to register and access 
patient A&I. Patient demographic information from the Clinical Data 
Repository (CDR) is used to associate A&I with the patient. Another 
method of collecting data is through bulk scanning of patient artifacts 
into HAIMS. The user will first select the patient for which the 
artifact is associated with, and then enters in relevant metadata of 
the artifacts.
    The information in HAIMS is sensitive; therefore, it contains 
built-in safeguards to limit access and visibility of this information. 
HAIMS uses role-based security so a user sees only the information for 
which permission has been granted. It uses encryption security for 
transactions. It is 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. HAIMS servers are hosted at Military Treatment Facilities 
(MTFs) and physically secured by the Services and within the MHS 
enclave, Enterprise Infrastructure maintains information security.

    Dated: November 9, 2015.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register, Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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