{"id":831,"date":"2009-12-15T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:16:58","slug":"medical-data-mining-ban-unlikely-in-health-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/data-mining\/medical-data-mining-ban-unlikely-in-health-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Data Mining Ban Unlikely In Health Reform Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Senate proposal to ban the medical data mining of physicians&#8217; prescription writing for targeted marketing by drug companies will not be part of the Senate&#8217;s health reform bill according to a Senate staff member for Senator Herb Kohl.<\/p>\n<p>A data mining ban on doctors&#8217; prescription records would strike at pharmaceutical data companies like IMS Health and Verispan that collect and sell the information to drug makers.<\/p>\n<p>The American Medical Association ( AMA ) also profits from its database of prescription data and probably would have fought the ban along with the data mining companies.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the prescription data mining ban will continue to push for the legislation according to the Senate staffer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1413386820091215\">Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Senate proposal to ban the medical data mining of physicians&#8217; prescription writing for targeted marketing by drug companies will not be part of the Senate&#8217;s health reform bill according to a Senate staff member for Senator Herb Kohl. A data mining ban on doctors&#8217; prescription records would strike at pharmaceutical data companies like [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/data-mining\/medical-data-mining-ban-unlikely-in-health-reform-bill\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Medical Data Mining Ban Unlikely In Health Reform Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}