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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 785 (Introduced in Senate) — To improve mental health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. · Sec. 305

Sec. 305. Precision medicine initiative of Department of Veterans Affairs to identify and validate brain and mental health biomarkers

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Beginning not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall develop and implement an initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify and validate brain and mental health biomarkers among veterans, with specific consideration for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and such other mental health conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate. Such initiative may be referred to as the Precision Medicine for Veterans Initiative . The initiative under subsection
(a)shall be modeled on the All of Us Precision Medicine Initiative administered by the National Institutes of Health with respect to large-scale collection of standardized data and open data sharing. In carrying out the initiative under subsection (a), the Secretary shall develop robust data privacy and security measures to ensure that information of veterans participating in the initiative is kept private and secure. The Secretary shall make de-identified data collected under the initiative available for research purposes both within and outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Data collected under the initiative may not be sold. The Secretary shall ensure that data collected under the initiative is standardized. The Secretary shall consult with the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to determine the most effective, efficient, and cost-effective way of standardizing data collected under the initiative. Data collected under the initiative shall be standardized in the manner in which it is collected, entered into the database, extracted, and recorded. Any measures of brain function or structure collected under the initiative shall be collected with a device that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Secretary shall assess the feasibility and advisability of coordinating efforts of the initiative under subsection
(a)with the Million Veterans Program of the Department.
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