Court Upholds New Hampshire Prescription Privacy Law
The First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a New Hampshire law that bans the sale of prescriber-identifiable prescription drug data for marketing purposes. In August, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 16 experts in privacy and technology filed a "friend of the court" brief urging the federal appellate court to reverse a lower court ruling that delayed enforcement of the New Hampshire Prescription Confidentiality Act. Privacy experts said the lower court should be reversed because there is a substantial privacy interest in patient data that the lower court failed to consider.
NH prescription privacy law upheld, CNN Money.com, November 18, 2008
