theDataMap Documenting all the places
personal data goes. | 
Legend:  with your name, without your name.
Click on a circle above for names of organizations and details of data shared.
Pharmaceutical companies
receive data from prescription
and other
and analytics companies,
as well as from
researchers,
and pharmacies,
and they provide data to researchers
and analytics companies,
as well as to its sales force for visits
to Physicians.
A good source of material on this practice is the Supreme Court Case, Sorrell v IMS Health.
[List of Sources, June 2013]
Examples Abbott
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | Alcon Laboratories
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | | | Amgen, Inc.
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | | | Bristol-Myers Squibb, Co.
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | Celgene Coporation
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | | | Genentech
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | I Healthus, Inc
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least CA
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | | | MedImmune, LLC
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | Merck Research Laboratories
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least WA ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | | | Novo Nordisk, Inc.
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
| | Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.
purchases statewide
personal hospital discharge data
from at least ME
[source].
See more information about the
fields of data shared,
an example of matching real names to the records
in statewide discharge data, and
which states use standards less than the HIPAA standard.
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