Addendum to the Supporting Statement for 0960-0798

Addendum to the Supporting Statement for Form SSA-680

Social Security Administration Health IT Partner Program Assessment –

Participating Facilities and Available Content Form

20 CFR 404.1614, 416.1014

OMB No. 0960-0798

Revisions to Form SSA-680

Introductory Questions:

• Change #1: We are changing “Social Security Administration” to “SSA.”

Justification #1: We are making this change because we defined the SSA acronym earlier in the document.

• Change #2 We are capitalizing the “s” in “Section.”

Justification #2: We are making this change to be uniform with the rest of the document.

• Change #3: We are removing the CDA document request.

Justification #3: We are removing CDA documents as we are pushing for CCDA documents.

1.1 Definitions:

• Change #4: We are removing the definition 1.1.1.

Justification #4:  We are removing this as we no longer need it there.

1.1.6 Narrative Data in a CDA/CCDA Structured Document:

• Change #5:  We are removing the CDA document request.

Justification #5:  We are removing CDA documents as we are pushing for CCDA documents.

1.1.7 Coded Data in a CDA/CCDA Structured Document:

• Change #6:  We are removing the CDA document request.

Justification #6:  We are removing CDA documents as we are pushing for CCDA documents.

1.1.8 Standard Based Structured Document:

• Change #7:  We are removing “Remove Continuity of Care Record.”

Justification #7:  We are removing this as the information is no longer valid.

Participating Organizations, Providers and Facilities:

• Change #8: We are removing the following: VLER, C-HIEP, and Beacon; What's C-HIEP?

• Justification #8: We are removing VLER due to the JHIE onboarding effort, and Beacon due to its relevance. We are also making this change to update language to reflect our current situation.

• Change #9: We are removing HL7/CCD and HITSP/C32.

• Justification #9: We are removing these as they are no longer supported with our latest available standard to use is CCDA R2.1.

2.0 Identifying Available Clinical Documents

• Change #10: We are removing the CDA document request.

Justification 10#: We are removing CDA documents as we are pushing for CCDA documents.