Is “Data Mining” of Prescription and Patient Records Protected By the First Amendment?

A year ago, I wrote about how pharmaceutical companies are increasingly paying third parties like IMS Health or CVS-Caremark to provide them with the prescribing records and identification information for individual doctors. Armed with this information Read More...

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Posted Dec 01 2010, 11:46 AM by Health Beat