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Study ID’s prescription privacy risks – UPI.com

Canadian researchers say they’ve determined information contained in hospital prescription records can be used to easily identify patients.

Emam said many retail pharmacies in Canada sell prescription records to commercial data aggregators who perform analyses for the pharmaceutical companies. The potential privacy risk in such a practice, the researchers said, is if the patients can be re-identified from this data.

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