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

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unveiling plans to give researchers access to data on Medicare and Medicaid enrollees with autism, though experts are doubtful that ...

Autism experts and advocates expressed alarm after the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it intends to create a database of enrolled Medicare and Medicaid patients to support ...

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 ...