YOUR MONEY-Are drug companies using your health records to sell you stuff?
January 9, 2014Reuters – 6 hours ago By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with you, ready to hand out pamphlets and samples, you’d likely cry foul. Depending on what electronic health record system your physician uses, the digital version of this sort of thing is already happening.
New regulations in the Affordable Care Act restrict access to doctors by pharmaceutical companies. As a result, drug companies are finding their way behind the medical industry’s closed doors via digital record-keeping systems. Read more