The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans ...

In response to the announcement that the HHS would create a database for autism and other chronic conditions, Gov. J.B.

Central Illinois families are speaking up as a new executive order from Governor JB Pritzker affirms privacy protections for ...

The Illinois governor denounced the health secretary’s autism registry as creating “fear of surveillance or discrimination.” ...

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 ...

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

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

The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, ...

The U.S. 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 of ...

As part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to find the cause of autism, the NIH will begin using privacy-protected Medicare and Medicaid data.