During a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Sen. Maggie Hassan calls out Health and Human ...

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

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...

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

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from ...

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.

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The Department of Health and Human Services denied that it would create an autism health registry after advocates for the autistic community expressed fear about reported plans for one. An HHS ...