H.R. 9632: Accelerating Innovation (AI) for Kids with Cancer Act

This bill would create a new federal coordinator to help align government efforts using artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to improve care for children with cancer. The coordinator would be appointed by the President, working with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and would serve on the Domestic Policy Council.

What the coordinator would do

The coordinator would look for ways to speed up the use of AI in the federal government’s childhood cancer work, especially through the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI). The bill points to several areas where AI could be used:

• Improving how pediatric cancer clinical trials are designed and how patients can access them
• Making data tools and platforms available through the CCDI data system
• Combining data from different sources so it can be analyzed with AI
• Using AI to help choose clinical trial participants
• Using AI to better predict how patients may respond to treatment, how disease may progress, and possible side effects
• Turning large sets of biological and imaging data into new diagnostic, prognosis, and treatment markers
• Improving trial design, access, and outcomes by using multiple kinds of data together

Data sharing and privacy

The bill says the Secretary of Health and Human Services should make sure AI efforts are integrated into existing work on health data interoperability. In plain terms, that means the bill wants health records and insurance claims data to be easier to use for research and clinical trial planning, while still keeping control of health information with the patient or their authorized representative.

The Secretary would also be directed to help finish interoperability standards for patient data used with AI. Those standards would need to:

• Handle both structured data, like lab results, and unstructured data, like doctor notes
• Support safe and privacy-compliant data sharing

Reporting and funding

The Secretary would have to send Congress a report within 180 days after enactment explaining how the section is being carried out.

The bill authorizes funding for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. It says such sums as may be necessary may be appropriated for the overall program, and it separately authorizes $100 million per year for CCDI-related work during those years.

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