Okay I’m curious, are autism diagnosis kept on any kind of central data base? I get there’s some of that with other medicinal records but aren’t most cases of autism diagnosed by childhood psychologist and therapists, do they have a central database? Aren’t a lot of people self-diagnosed?
When I got diagnosed the psychologist kept a record for herself and game a copy to me. I haven’t even told my primary care doctor, so I don’t know how they’ll find it unless they go to every testing center and request all diagnostic documents
I read something about the process including broad access to medical records of the public. So, I suppose they’ll just be searching wherever they feel they’ll find evidence.
Insurance companies would know. They would know because they know diagnoses and track them to approve or deny medications, visits to medical professionals like psychiatrists/psychologists/etc. They can just demand those records from them scarily enough.
Okay I’m curious, are autism diagnosis kept on any kind of central data base? I get there’s some of that with other medicinal records but aren’t most cases of autism diagnosed by childhood psychologist and therapists, do they have a central database? Aren’t a lot of people self-diagnosed?
At the state level only, until now. I think there were like 8 US states that kept a registry with mandatory reporting.
They’re putting together a database with all the autistic people in the US. It doesn’t exist but its construction was announced today.
When I got diagnosed the psychologist kept a record for herself and game a copy to me. I haven’t even told my primary care doctor, so I don’t know how they’ll find it unless they go to every testing center and request all diagnostic documents
I read something about the process including broad access to medical records of the public. So, I suppose they’ll just be searching wherever they feel they’ll find evidence.
Insurance companies would know. They would know because they know diagnoses and track them to approve or deny medications, visits to medical professionals like psychiatrists/psychologists/etc. They can just demand those records from them scarily enough.