Ailani Myers Accelerating Innovation in Medicine to Cure Kids with Cancer Act

(a) Integration of artificial intelligence into interoperability. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, shall ensure that artificial intelligence is appropriately integrated into interoperability activities carried out under title XXX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300jj et seq.), in order to improve the potential for electronic health record and claims data to inform private sector and academic research and clinical trial design, while ensuring the privacy of individually identifiable health information in accordance with regulations promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 1320d–2 note).

(b) Interoperability standards. Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, shall finalize interoperability standards for patient data to be used with artificial intelligence that—

(1) appropriately account for structured and unstructured data;

(2) enable safe and privacy-compliant exchanges of data; and

(3) account for the needs of pediatric patients, including pediatric cancer patients, as a priority use case.

(c) Applicability. The standards finalized under subsection (b) shall be developed for application throughout the Department of Health and Human Services and shall not be limited in application to the CCDI or to the National Cancer Institute.

(d) Consultation and patient engagement. In carrying out this section, the Secretary, acting through the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, shall—

(1) consult with the Director, the CCDI Director, patients and their families, health care providers, researchers, and developers of health information technology;

(2) coordinate with the patient community to ensure transparency and to establish mechanisms for the sharing of data; and

(3) identify existing barriers to pediatric data sharing and interoperability, in coordination with the stakeholder community, and make recommendations to address such barriers.