November 24th, 2008
1st Circuit Court of Appeals court ruling upholds New Hampshire law preventing pharmacies and data-miners from using physician prescribing patterns for marketing research.
The plaintiffs...
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court has upheld a New Hampshire law that aims to block the use of data on physicians’ and other clinicians’ prescribing...
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law making doctors’ prescription writing habits confidential.
The ruling Tuesday by the 1st...
November 18th, 2008
A federal appeals court in Boston on Tuesday dealt a setback to the pharmaceutical industry and companies that collect prescription data for use in...
July 23rd, 2008
How insurance companies dig up applicants’ prescriptions — and use them to deny coverage.
That prescription you just picked up at the drugstore could hurt...
May 13th, 2008
The Coalition for Patient Privacy and 25 of its member organizations are asking Congress not to pass an e-prescribing mandate unless it includes provisions...
April 15th, 2008
WellPoint announced plans today to work with FDA and launch one of the first real-time medication surveillance systems, the Wall Street Journal reports. With...
April 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
March 25th, 2008
The drumbeat for internet-accessible medical records is growing louder, as are calls in Georgia and other states for prescription-monitoring programs mandated by law. If...
December 13th, 2007
A bill to regulate pharmaceutical sales representatives was approved 7-6 on first reading by the District of Columbia Council on Dec. 11.
The bill, said...
