Pharmaceutical companies use physician prescribing data for a variety of purposes, but arguably mostly for sales and marketing purposes.

Some doctors object to the use of prescribing data to target them for marketing. New Hamspire has recently passed a bill limiting the sales of physician Rx data to pharmaceutical companies for "commercial purposes," including -- but not limited to -- marketing purposes.

For more on this subject, see today's post to Pharma Marketing Blog.

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