"opening statement"
"As part of our committee's 21st Century Cures Initiative, we are examining the discovery, development, and delivery process to speed new treatments and cures to patients."
"Technology has the potential to transform health care as well, and in doing so address many of the challenges that we currently face."
"The question before us: How do we ensure that our health care system can take advantage of the innovation going on in the tech world?"
"We now have mobile medical apps that can make health care more personalized if we don't overregulate them."
"We have electronic health records that can be shared among various providers to help better coordinate the care we receive, if we can ensure they are interoperable."
"This Cures Initiative is in part focused on using technology to relieve administrative burdens for agencies such as FDA."
"if the June 2014 Rand report is true, we have been subsidizing systems that block information instead of allowing for information transfers, which was never the intent of the statute."
"The subcommittee will come to order."
"According to the reports, between October 1st and December 31st, 2013, OIG identified 2.9 million inconsistencies between applicants' information and data received through the Data Hub or from other d..."
"It is absolutely stunning that this Administration, nearly a year after launch of the exchanges and with $1 trillion on the line, has yet to build a functioning eligibility system."
"Given the Administration's false promises when it comes to Affordable Care Act implementation, CMS' hope to have a fully automated process up and running later this summer deserves to be treated with ..."