December 4th, 2007
Most politicians support measures like so-called “prescription monitoring programs” mindlessly, figuring that if allowing the government access to medical records of scummy drug addicts...
April 30th, 2007
A federal judge on Monday struck down New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law that makes doctors’ prescription-writing habits confidential, saying it violates the First Amendment. Drug...
April 29th, 2007
Maine wants to ban the data mining and sale of identifiable prescription records to drug companies. It’s about time. But marketing to doctors is...
April 23rd, 2007
Scores of bills passed but a few died – including one to block pharmacies from peddling doctors’ prescription information to data.m.ining firms – as...
March 30th, 2007
Glen Tullman didn’t invent information technology, but he is one of those people who figured out early how to aim it with effect. Case...
March 14th, 2007
Vermont is considering a new bill that would make it the second state in the country to ban the sale of physician prescribing data....
November 14th, 2005
In April 2004, President Bush set a 10-year goal of equipping most Americans with electronic medical files and prescription drug records.
The ambitious initiative promises...
August 30th, 2005
As Brooke Shields testifies in her recent memoir, into many a postpartum life a little rain must fall. And evidently, a little Tom Cruise as...
