<searchTitle>Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an Altered System of Records Medical Staff Credentials and Privileges Records; Federal Register Vol. 74, Issue </searchTitle>
<granuleClass>NOTICE</granuleClass>
<accessId>E9-21422</accessId>
<agency order="1">DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES</agency>
<agency order="2">Indian Health Service</agency>
<effectiveDate>2009-09-09</effectiveDate>
<departmentDoc>System Number 09-17-0003</departmentDoc>
<billingCode>4165-16-M</billingCode>
<frDocNumber>E9-21422</frDocNumber>
<action>Amendment of one altered Privacy Act system of records.</action>
<summary>Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4), the IHS has amended and is publishing the proposed alteration of a system of records, System No. 09-17-0003, "Medical Staff Credentials and Privileges Records." The amended and altered system of records makes several administrative revisions which includes the deletion of the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) language to comply with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum (M)07- 16, Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information (May 22, 2007); and the HHS Directive Memorandum of October 6, 2008 to all Operating Division Heads to develop and execute a plan to eliminate the unnecessary collection and use of SSNs; and the inclusion of a new routine use to comply with OMB (M)07-16 and the HHS Memorandum dated September 19, 2007 to incorporate Notification of Breach Routine Use language; and the update of the Appendix 1 of the SOR.</summary>
<dates>Effective Dates: IHS filed an altered system report with the Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB on September 9, 2009. To ensure that all parties have adequate time in which to comment, the altered SOR will become effective 40 days from the publication of the notice, or from the date it was submitted to OMB and the Congress, whichever is later, unless IHS receives comments on all portions of this notice.</dates>
<contact>Contact Paul Fowler, D.O., J.D., IRS Risk Management Officer, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, Suite 331, 801 Thompson Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852 or via the Internet at Paul.Fowler@ihs.gov.</contact>
<tocDoc>Privacy Act; Systems of Records
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<emailRef>Paul.Fowler@ihs.gov</emailRef>
<emailRef>William.Tibbitts@ihs.qov</emailRef>