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Medical insurance claims might do more than help pay for health concerns; they could help predict them, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary Penn State research team published in BMJ Health & Care Informatics.

An interdisciplinary Penn State research team developed machine learning models that assess the connections among hundreds of clinical variables, including doctor visits and health care services for seemingly unrelated medical conditions, to predict the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder in young children.

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to research whether COVID-19 contributes to the development of cognitive decline that may be part of the chain of events leading to dementia.