Supreme Court rules in favor of pharma in privacy case
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, October 1, 2011
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Some hoped that the practice of buying data would be banned because many believe it's a privacy violation. Had the practice been outlawed, it would have made compliance officers' jobs a little easier because it could have prevented pharmaceutical representatives from using prescriber data to influence physicians' prescribing practices.
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