Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism.

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to enable research around the root causes of the autism spectrum disorder by creating a database of Medicare and Medicaid enrollees with a diagnosis of the condition,