Healthcare DIVE August 28, 2017
Les Masterson

In the closing days of his administration, President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which was a sweeping bill of nearly 1,000 pages and the result of three years of work by legislators and lobbyists.

The bill touched upon many areas in healthcare and received overwhelming support in both houses of Congress. It sought to change FDA processes to quicken medical research and treatments; enhance health IT interoperability; improve mental health services; provide $1 billion for states to fund opioid abuse prevention and treatment; and spend $4.8 billion on cancer research and the BRAIN Initiative.

Though seen as a major achievement at the time, the Cures Act quickly fell into the background as the Donald Trump Administration took...

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Topics: Cures Act, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Mental Health
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