Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
In 2007, Vermont enacted the Prescription Confidentiality Law, prohibiting pharmacies from selling “prescriber-identifiable” prescription information to data-mining companies such as IMS Health and Verispan. These companies aggregate such data and sell them to many groups, including drug companies, so when drug sales representatives visit a physician, they can know exactly what prescriptions the physician has written.
Recommended Citation
Kevin Outterson,
Higher First Amendment Hurdles for Public Health Regulation
,
in
365
New England Journal of Medicine
e13
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1754
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, Kevin Outterson, Higher First Amendment Hurdles for Public Health Regulation, Volume 365, Page e13 Copyright ©(2011) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.