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<key-projects><projects><title>Assist the Access Board in Developing Accessibility Standards</title><description>Consult with the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access Board) as the Access Board creates technical criteria for medical device accessibility to advance human welfare and provide the disabled with appropriate and equal access to the medical care they need.</description><dictionary></dictionary><outcome></outcome><accomplishment></accomplishment><free-text></free-text><table><title></title><free-text-table></free-text-table><overall-status><briefing>DELAYED</briefing><prior-briefing>DELAYED</prior-briefing></overall-status><row><type></type><milestone-description>A. Work with the Access Board to determine priority medical devices to establish technical accessibility standards for in the next 18 months</milestone-description><milestone-date>9/9/2010</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>9/9/2010</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>B. Conduct gap analysis of recognized standards to determine which currently recognized voluntary consensus standards the Access Board may leverage in developing its standards</milestone-description><milestone-date>11/30/2010</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>11/30/2010</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>C. Determine applicable barriers and necessary design criteria to address those barriers</milestone-description><milestone-date>2/1/2011</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>2/1/2011</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>D. Brief Dr. Hamburg about the devices to which the criteria will apply, the results of the gap analysis, future considerations, and timeframe for development of the standards</milestone-description><milestone-date>12/16/2010</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>12/16/2010</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>E. Brief the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the Access Board about the results of the gap analysis, existing standards, and new standards to be developed</milestone-description><milestone-date>5/31/2011</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>12/6/2011</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>F. Publish proposed rule describing technical criteria</milestone-description><milestone-date>6/30/2011</milestone-date><milestone-status>Completed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date>2/9/2012</milestone-completion-date></row><row><type></type><milestone-description>G. Publish final rule</milestone-description><milestone-date>3/1/2012</milestone-date><milestone-status>Delayed</milestone-status><milestone-completion-date></milestone-completion-date></row></table></projects><glossary></glossary><related-links><link><url>http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/track/ucm237975.htm</url><text>FDA-TRACK Health Care Reform Dashboard</text></link><link><url>track?program=healthcare-reform&amp;id=ACA-4203-Cumulative-percent-CDRH-staff-and-reviewers-trained-new-accessibility-criteria</url><text>Cumulative percent of CDRH staff and reviewers trained in new accessibility criteria at the end of the month</text></link></related-links></key-projects>
    






