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What data, if any, should pharmacies be allowed to sell to marketing companies?
(Total Votes: 2507)
none of the data should be sold (61.7%) | |
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only total sales data by drug name (20.7%) | |
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what they sell now is ok with doctor's consent (3.7%) | |
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what they sell now is ok (4.3%) | |
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not sure (9.5%) | |
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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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