Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing a public meeting to seek public input and comment on opportunities to leverage departmental resources, increase collaboration, and to partner with private stakeholders in the service of accelerating the process for clinical innovation in the United States. HHS is specifically interested in how to decrease the overall time for a new medical product (drug, medical device, biologic) to go from discovery to widespread patient access and use while maintaining the critical public health standards of the Department. HHS is seeking participation in the meeting and written comments from all interested parties, including, but not limited to, patients, physicians, researchers, medical product developers, commercial health insurance plan sponsors and carriers, private investors, and the community at large. This meeting and the written comments are intended to assist HHS, in developing programs and procedures for assessing and accelerating the pace of the clinical innovation enterprise throughout the United States. HHS is seeking input on specific questions identified below but is interested in any other pertinent information participants in the public meeting would like to share. This meeting is open to the public.
