IP: Do prescription records stay private when pharmacy stores are sold?: [risks] Risks Digest 21.35

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:02:53 -0400
> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Subject: Do prescription records stay private when pharmacy stores are sold?
>
> Do prescription records stay private when pharmacy stores are sold?
>
> The issue caught the attention of the Clinton administration
>
> By Milo Geyelin
> THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
> April 11 - A novel lawsuit over the privacy of prescription records at a
> former neighborhood drug store could complicate the way pharmacy chains buy
> up their competitors. The suit challenges the common but little-known
> practice of "file buying," in which chains purchase customer prescription
> files from pharmacies they acquire and add them to their own.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/557734.asp



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