RE: Support of the 21st Century Cures Legislation
Dear Leader McConnell, Leader Reid, Chairman Alexander, and Ranking Member Murray:
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine writes in support H.R. 34, the “21st Century Cures Act.”
The Alliance is a coalition of national medical societies representing specialty physicians in the
U.S. and is dedicated to the development of sound federal health care policy that fosters
patient access to the highest quality specialty care. We greatly appreciate your leadership to
improve the discovery, development and delivery that support continued innovation in our
health care system.
The Alliance has watched the development of legislation in this area and is particularly
interested in the following provisions:
- Additional funding and reauthorization of the National Institutes of Health (NIH);
- Establishing a streamlined process for qualifying and utilizing surrogate endpoints in
clinical research trials; - Permitting data sharing without relinquishing data ownership;
- Creation of an innovation fund to foster the discovery;
- Development, and delivery of medical innovation;
- Standardizing data in clinical trial registry data bank;
- Streamlining the institutional review board (IRB) process;
- Fostering telemedicine/telehealth; and
- Promoting interoperability.
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