EHR Intelligence December 18, 2019
Christopher Jason

The House of Representatives is working to outline future legislation to build on the 21st Century Cures Act, dubbing the effort Cures 2.0.

Medical device development, data exchange, and patient access to innovative therapies need to be at the heart of the next iterations of the 21st Century Cures Act, an effort Representatives Fred Upton and Diana DeGette are calling “Cures 2.0.”

“Cures 2.0 is an effort to modernize coverage and access to life-savings cures in the United States and across the globe,” DeGette and Upton wrote in a statement. “Patients from across the country continually remind us that a modernized system of developing new cures will require a modernized health care delivery system capable of delivering them to patients...

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