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Study says private clinics are selling patient data to big pharma

[ https://www.healthcoalition.ca/study-sa ... ig-pharma/ ]

May 13, 2025 By Pat Van Horne

Patient information for sale to big pharma, study says . . .

“This is really an area where we need transparency…We need oversight…What we know from other surveys and interviews with patients is that this is not how they want their data handled,” said Dr. Sheryl Spithoff, the lead author of the study, [ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamane ... le/2833520 ] which found that for-profit clinics, data brokers, and pharmaceutical companies collaborate to turn patient medical records into commercial assets used to further the interests of the pharmaceutical companies, to CBC News, May 9, 2025.