Politico November 11, 2020
COMMON GROUND: Could health technology provide a thread of continuity between the administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden? Will the demands of the pandemic and the pace of innovation just make it too hard to change course?
Biden was a booster of health research as vice president, helping steer passage of the 21st Century Cures Act and launching the precision-medicine-focused cancer moonshot. He could pick up where he left off, even building on the Trump administration’s efforts to free up patient data and embrace virtual care.
But the likelihood of a divided Congress means some other federal efforts — like privacy legislation — may be snuffed out, leaving states with online privacy laws like California to chart their...