Hey CVS Caremark and Merck your days are numbered!
I blogged about something similar recently actually. It turns out the the U.S. 1st Circuit of Appeals agrees that this sort of invasion of privacy is not right.
Data-mining companies have no constitutional right to buy prescription data in order to help pharmaceutical companies lobby doctors to prescribe their brand-name drugs, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The 3-0 decision by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals re-instates New Hampshire’s 2006 ban on the commercial use of prescription information which is routinely bought from insurers and pharmacy benefit managers by data mining companies. That information includes the names of the doctor, patient and drug.
Most likely the next step for Big Phrma will be to lobby statehouses to not pass laws similar to that of New Hampshire’s.
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