Sarah Owermohle reports:
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 of autism.
The database — which HHS said will draw from insurance claims, medical records and data from wearable technology such as smartwatches — is one of the first steps in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to find the causes of autism “by September.”
Early signals from health officials that they would build a database to track autism were met with swift rebuke from advocacy organizations and doctors.
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h/t, Joe Cadillic