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Selling Health Data

De-Identification, Privacy, and Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2015

BONNIE KAPLAN
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Abstract:

Two court cases that involve selling prescription data for pharmaceutical marketing affect biomedical informatics, patient and clinician privacy, and regulation. Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. et al. in the United States and R v. Department of Health, Ex Parte Source Informatics Ltd. in the United Kingdom concern privacy and health data protection, data de-identification and reidentification, drug detailing (marketing), commercial benefit from the required disclosure of personal information, clinician privacy and the duty of confidentiality, beneficial and unsavory uses of health data, regulating health technologies, and considering data as speech. Individuals should, at the very least, be aware of how data about them are collected and used. Taking account of how those data are used is needed so societal norms and law evolve ethically as new technologies affect health data privacy and protection.

Keywords

confidentialityhealth data privacyhealth recordsbig datadata miningpharmaceutical marketinghealth data salede-identificationHIPPAEU Data Protection DirectiveSorrell v. IMS Health Inc.R v. Department of Health, Ex Parte Source Informatics Ltd.
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Special Section: Bioethics and Information Technology
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 256 - 271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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