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Data Mining
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Healthcare Law Insights
Rule lets Medicaid fraud-control units tap federal funds for data-mining
On May 18th2013 HHS gave state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (State Attorney General MFCUs) more power to data mine for patterns of overpayments, waste, fraud or abuse. They expect these new…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Massachusetts Echoes California and Disavows Data Mining by Zip Code
In a decision last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that zip codes are personally identifiable information, perhaps serving as a harbinger for other state court decisions still to come. This…
Health IT Law Blog
Data mining by hospitals may be profitable, but not risk-free
The USA Today published a story yesterday about a few hospitals using aggregated consumer data for marketing of such hospitals' most lucrative services. The article describes several instances where such direct…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
An In-Depth Look at the Supreme Court Decision on Vermont’s Prescription Data Mining Law
By Marcy Wilder
Springboarding off our earlier report on the Supreme Court's decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health, Hogan Lovells Privacy and Information Management practice co-leader Marcy Wilder and associate Eric Bukstein have…
Life Sciences Legal Update
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Ban on Data Mining; Rules that State Law Interferes with Drug Makers’ Right to Free Speech
By Lisa Baird
Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a verdict in Sorrell vs. IMS Health, striking, on free speech grounds, a 2007 Vermont law that that bans…
Data Counsel
Supreme Court Finds Vermont Data Mining Law Unconstitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court released its decision today in Sorrell v. IMS Health Care, Inc., a case concerning the constitutionality of a Vermont statute that prohibited pharmacies from selling or…
Health Law Prof Blog
Discussion on <em>Pharma Face-Off</em>
I was recently invited to debate issues in the Vermont data mining case on the program Pharma Face-Off. We've had some pro-PhRMA and anti-PhRMA perspectives at Health Reform Watch over…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Is Access to Prescriber-Identifiable Data Protected as Free Speech?: The Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Sorrell v. IMS Health
On April 26, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Sorrell v. IMS Health - the first case heard by the Court that considers the limitations that a state may…
Health Industry Washington Watch
OIG Proposes to Allow Medicaid Fraud “Data Mining”
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a proposed rule that would end a current prohibition on State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU) using federal matching funds to…
The Ethical Investigator
Data Mining is Dumbed-Down Intelligence
By Philip Segal
The most dangerous thing about all the tracking that’s done on us over the internet is not how much computers get to know about us, but how wrong they can…