“The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a Fiscal Year 2020 funding bill that includes $41.7 billion for the National Institutes of Health, including several critical health IT-enabled research initiatives.”
“The FY 2020 appropriation for NIH is an increase of $2.6 billion above the 2019 enacted level and $7.5 billion above the President’s budget request.”
“The bill supports several major NIH research initiatives that leverage HIT, including $500 million for the Brain Research through Application of Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, as well as $500 million for the All of Us research initiative—previously called the Precision Medicine Initiative…”
“In addition, the bill passed by the House designates $195 million for the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The goal of the Cancer Moonshot initiative is to achieve a decade’s worth of progress against the disease in just five years. Data sharing is critical to the effort and will require HIT systems and software applications to communicate with one another and exchange data to derive actionable insights…”
“The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT also stands to benefit from the bill, which includes $60 million for the ‘development and advancement of interoperable health information technology…'” Read the full article here.
Source: House passes bill funding HIT-enabled medical research – By Greg Slabodkin, December 19, 2019. HealthData Management.
