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What data, if any, should pharmacies be allowed to sell to marketing companies?

Voter Comments (the following are opinions of readers and not AskaPatient.com)

• I had no idea this went on im outraged!

• We the patients are "co-owners" of the data, that should be available to everybody.

• they shouldn't

• dotors are wonderful

• they should not be allowed to sell any patient data to marketing companies.

• None- medical information should be about the patient's care, not drug company profits.

• patient data should not be sold

• Outrageous

• it's beneficial to collect reasons of use

• Selling this info only perpetuates drug companies having control over American healthcare.

• What happened to the HIPPA laws?

• Insane breach of privacy. Use of your Rx data should be limited to you. Opt-in as ethical standard!

• people shouldn't make money out of others' sicknesses!

• none of the datashouldbesold

• no, i don't think so

• remove doc name and ID, use specialty instead

• It's good to have info, but it's use should be guarded.

• It is a private data

• Only drug, price, gender, birthdate

• ABSOLUTELY NONE!

• Isn't anything private these days?

• bad practice

• Drug manufacturers must be prohibited from giving anything to induce doctors to prescribe thier meds

• NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!

• No dr. or patient data!

• my personal info. is PERSONAL and should not be sold by any-one other than myself.

• Personal info of the patient should be kept PERSONAL!

• what about patients race?

• How can they sell my private info without my consent?!

• it scares me to think how much our information is sold and shared. I hate it.

• humans are not for sale ever.

• It is an invasion of collective privacy

• none what so ever!

• Not without patient consent. why should thy sell the information that were paying for.

• selling data intrudes on one's privacy

• only with my consent

• the compaines should only know how much they are selling

• NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• any data that can ethically be sold to marketing companies should be publically available anyway

• never sold

• Patient info should be private.

• What happend to medical records being private & confidential between a patient and their caregivers?

• Drug manufacturers and middlemen know their sales. They have no right to have any personal info.

• This should be private info

• Sounds like a good way to trace kick-backs to doctors from sales reps!!

• Research, not marketing should be priority one.

• My info is private, private, private!

• If the drug manufacturers are willing to compensate ME for MY DATA, fine, but until then no way

• my data is my data so pay me for my data if you need to use my data thereby requiring my permission

• price and reasons for use

• THey should NEVER be allowed to see ANY private/patient-specific info!!!

• do not sell any data

• It sounds like too much data is being sold.

• Enough snooping!!!

• Hidden market research for targeted advertising

• I am in the med field & I see docs write RX as the reps DO keep track & the docs DO get kick backs.

• Keep the doctors and drug companies apart!!!

• This is a violation of the new law enforcing privacy act

• Safety & efficacy are not related to sales.

• Nothing, nothing, nothing!

• no confidential information should be tracked! That's ridiculous!

• I would like doc's prescribing habits myself, so I think it is ok, where do you get this info?

• This is probably one of those bad "war on drugs" practices and is completely unethical.

• doctors just want your money

• As long as identifying information about a patient is not given, I'm all for it!

• I believe selling the data is a violation of patient privacy

• Patient data should not be sold.

• They don't make enough money already?

• absolutely none.

• Has anyone heard of the HIPPA Laws?

• No data should be sold to marketing companys as there is a lot of weak minded people out here

• No information should be sold it is a strick matter of Right to Privacy and should not be done.

• Ethnicity should be used for assessing efficacy of drugs in certain groups

• Buyer beware of this pharmacy who does this

• As long as my name isn't attached to it, it's all right with me.

• I think only drug & price and reason for use of medicine.

• I think they should be able to sell all data to marketing companies for research.

• Extend patient confidentiality to the pharmacies. Our helath is not the business of marketing firms

• selling might insure other co. hit dr. with info. too so dr. may make more informed choices

• selling might insure other co. hit dr. with info. too so dr. may make more informed choices

• Absolutely not.

• It seems to me to be a violation of a patient's confidentiality

• NONE IT'S A VIOLATION OF PRIVACY

• Isn't this illegal under HIPAA?

• My medical privacy was violated by this practice; received junk mail addressed to me

• Only data about the drugs

• This should be private

• Absolutely NOTHING of a personal nature pertaining to the patient!!!

• confidentiality

• mkt'g cos = pharm co's NO GOOD

• sure, whatever keeps the world spinning round (besides the God who made it)

• shouldn't HIPPA prevent this form happining. No one's business but your own!

• The privacy act should protect us.

• don't waste other life by your stupid ideas

• What happened to HIPPA?

• Everyone trying to make a buck and denying the harm it can cause

• pharmacist are the best!

• Your personal prescriptions are tallied up to and in a 40ish age group. Can add up to a few pills of

• This invasion of privacy should be illegal!!!!!!

• none, doc's should decide what drugs we need, not drug companies!

• It's only about the $ and not your health!

• No combination of personal info should be given out that combined could ID the patient; dr dob...

• medical information should be kept private, period.

• Routinely sell my data for company gain without my permission, no wonder we're all so d@mn paranoid.

• just drug and price

• HIPPA should outlaw EVERYTHING being sold

• No-- the pharma industry has more than enough power!

• absolutely not

• Enormous potential to compromise patient welfare.

• drug co already make way too much money

• Anonymous data only.

• This is a violation of patient rights!!

• If this practice of selling data is for the purpose of profits, then I am totally against it.

• all info should be confidential

• pharmacists are on oath and should never reveil data

• Pharmacies already make a killing with the prices of these Rx, selling us things we NEED.

• This is a scary!

• no birthdate only age

• Reaon for use

• Manipulation of private information

• not sure

• Drs shouldn't be profiting off of meds they prescribe for patients - what companies/drugs prescribed

• They absolutley should NOT be profiting from my PERSONAL information without my consent!!!!

• It's up to the individual to monitor own drugs

• all info should be accessible to the public

• gender, age, & prescribing m.d & reason for use seemd to nothingthey need to know.

• all of our rights of privacy need to be reinstituted.

• all of it

• Marketing companies are destroying our health.

• to marketing companies? That's B.S.

• none of the data should be sold

• drug prescription and patient care should not have anything to do with 'marketing.'

• pharmaceutical companies are evil

• marketing and drugs shouldn't mix: they are for our health, not their wealth

• Nothing

• none at all

• data that does not identify the patient

• I believe all medications should be kept confidential, otherwise the patient should get the "fee".

• What about HIPPA? So much for privacy laws!

• That's unreal. I had no clue. I don't want my info shared!

• This strikes me as an insidious violation of both practitioner and patient privacy!

• What ???!!!! I can't believe thay can do this!

• none, it's GP choice what to prescribe

• no personal info should be included in sold info

• Too much BIG BROTHER!

• Shame, Shame, Shame!

• ONLY AMOUNTS OF PRESCRIPTIONS SOLD ...

• not allowed to sell anyone

• It should reduce our RX bills!

• PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE NOT SAFE

• Privacy? Oh yeah, right.

• If I get a cut, sure...

• I wouldnt really be sure

• shouldn't HIPPA protect this data too?

• Once again the regular person is being "sold" for profit - what a shame!

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