The latest medicines and treatments could get into patients’ hands more quickly under an HHS initiative that aims to cut the lag time between medical research and clinical practice.
The Department of Health and Human Services is considering new resources and public-private partnerships for its ReImagine HHS: Accelerate Clinical Innovation Initiative, which focuses on getting drugs and medical devices to patients quicker.
The HHS initiative, announced May 23, marks the latest effort to accelerate clinical innovation. The NIH created a center in 2011 to get new treatments on the market faster. The goal of the 21st Century Cures law ...