Gene Green: “Our committee and I worked on breakthrough pathway for device precision. It was in the 21st Century Cures.”

The Cures Act aimed to build on the progress of the HITECH Act of 2009, but by focusing on improving interoperability, patient access to their health records, and reducing provider burden.

Neither these bills nor the Committee's other efforts have gone far enough to address many of the underlying challenges facing this sector.

These numbers are troubling as we are because even more acute when you look at the existing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities.

The 9-1-1 system was clearly overwhelmed--and was not nearly robust or resilient enough to tackle the volume of calls.