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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