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August 28, 2020

Fighting for You: August 2020 Update

August is normally quiet in Washington, DC, but in keeping with the theme of 2020, this month has been more frenetic. While we beat back new taxes on the insights industry, the Insights Association has had to tangle with the demise of the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield for data transfer, further pandemic relief, some new threats to pharma MR, the finalization of CCPA, and an attempt to rush the 2020 Census that threatens the statistical viability of most marketing research and data analytics in the U.S.

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April 15, 2020

HIPAA Privacy Rule in the COVID-19 Crisis

Marketing research and data analytics companies and departments that operate as business associates under HIPAA have a bit more leeway in handling disclosure of protected health information during the COVID-19 crisis if the data relates to public health

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April 15, 2020

FDA Guidance for Adverse Event Reporting During COVID-19 Crisis

Adverse event reporting, with which some pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers require assistance from their marketing research and data analytics departments and partners/vendors, continues during the COVID-19 crisis.

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May 21, 2019

Minnesota Restrictions on Pharmaceutical Marketing Research with Medical Practitioners

Each time the state of Minnesota has tried to clarify treatment of respondent incentives for the participation of health care practitioners in marketing research sponsored by pharmaceutical manufacturers, companies still end up confused. What do the law, regulations and guidance tell us?

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Howard Schlesinger, Roni DasGupta, Ileen Branderbit
February 8, 2019

Philadelphia Rejects Bill That Would Have Banned Pharmaceutical Marketing Research with Healthcare Professionals

Legislation in the city of Philadelphia that would have cut off pharmaceutical marketing research with doctors was defeated in the city council yesterday.

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July 13, 2017

Survey of Doctors Shows Public Health Benefits of Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

As the state legislature considers a bill to prohibit most payments from the pharmaceutical industry to health care providers in connection with their participation in research, a new survey indicates the public health benefits of pharmaceutical marketing research studies of doctors.

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April 28, 2015

The Wearable Medical Device in Your Future…Is Now!

Morris Whitcup and Keith LaMattina explore the wearable medical device market, in Alert! magazine

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Are distrusting patients unwittingly sabotaging research
June 13, 2013

Are Patients Undermining Healthcare Marketing Research?

“Patients are lying to their doctors; they are lying to protect their privacy,” stated Kathryn Serkes.

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March 8, 2012

State bills on data sharing, data deletion, data security, healthcare data, and location privacy

A number of interesting bills have been introduced in Tennessee, Oklahoma, New York, Hawaii, Virginia and Georgia on issues of data sharing, data security, healthcare data privacy, data retention,

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Constitutional amendment in South Carolina to protect health data privacy
January 4, 2012

Constitutional amendment in South Carolina would protect personal health information (S.J.R. 1011)

South Carolina Senator Daniel B. "Danny" Verdin (R-09) introduced S.J.R.

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