Our bodies, our data : how companies make billions selling our medical records /

Hidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of our prescriptions, hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tanner, Adam (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Medical records > Data processing. Confidential communications. Data mining. Electronic Health Records. Confidentiality. Data Mining. Medical records Anonymization

Table of Contents:

What the pharmacy knows
Data bonanza for pharmacies and middlemen
The covert alliance
Patient power
The dossier on your doctor
Supreme Court battle
Studying patients over time
Fighting for patients
How safe is "anonymized"?
Korean War over patient data
The patient's data tower of babel
21st century advances
Intimate, anonymized, and for sale
At the bottom of Niagara.