MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Data mining for drug sales: Suprme Court to weigh in. The nation’s high court is going to weigh in on whether pharmaceutical companies should be allowed to mine databases of information on the prescription of pharmaceuticals.
In Sorrell v. IMS Health, Supreme Court justices will determine whether and to what extent a state may ban the use of "prescriber-identifiable data" to market or promote those drugs to doctors under First Amendment law.