Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the creation of a new platform to study the causes of autism using data from Medicare and ...

Pritzker said the order was necessary in response to concerns about the creation of a federal autism registry or database without legal protections.

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes ...

Kennedy directed the health department to undertake a far-reaching research effort to identify the causes of autism, a ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism ...

Bengaluru: Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use to study the causes of autism spectrum disorder ...

According to a 2023 JAMA Psychiatry study, 403,028 adults over nine years had autism claims, and 71.6 percent of them were continuously enrolled in Medicaid. Medicare is the U.S. government ...