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Court upholds Vermont law on prescription data mining
In July, a new law will go into effect in Vermont prohibiting the use of a physician's prescribing history without their consent. The law has been challenged vigorously by a handful of pharmaceutical... Read more...
Prescription data miners seek VT injunction
A trio of companies engaged in the business of selling prescribing information to drugmakers--a practice referred to as "data mining" are asking an appeals court to stop an anti-data-mining law from... Read more...
VT wins battle to bar marketing use of Rx data
Vermont has won an important battle in its war to block the use of prescriber-identifiable data for drug marketing. A law instituting such a block had been challenged by a group of prescription... Read more...
Federal appeals court upholds NH data mining ban
The federal appeals court in Boston has dealt data mining companies like IMS Health and Verispan a huge blow by reinstating a New Hampshire law that bans the sale of doctor-specific prescription... Read more...
Court may reinstate prescription 'data mining' ban in NH
In mid-2007, a court struck down New Hampshire law banning the practice of collecting data on physician prescribing patterns and selling it to pharmaceutical company marketing departments. It sided... Read more...
