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January 17, 2017

Your medical information is big business

  • As the industry has grown, so have concerns about patient privacy.
    • By MATTHEW PERRONE
    AP Health Writer

    How much are your old prescriptions worth? Maybe not much to you. But for some companies, your medications, test results and hospital records are the building blocks of a multinational business.

    They collect millions of data points every day, analyze them and sell them to drugmakers and other health care players looking for insights into the medical marketplace.


     
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