Medicine:Prescription analytics
Prescription analytics is the practice of analyzing consumers' prescription drug histories in order to provide useful information for health insurers. In the United States, two-thirds of health insurers use prescription history reports to help identify consumers who may prove expensive to insure, and to set prices or deny coverage.[1] The reports, created and sold by medical data brokers such as MedPoint and IntelliScript, cost about $15 each and include information going back five years covering drug names, dosage, fill dates, refills, pharmacy and physician information, and possible medical conditions. The reports also include a “risk score”, based on a health risk assessment, predicting what an individual might cost an insurer in the future, as well as listing medical conditions the person may be being treated for.[2]
References
- ↑ Terhune, Chad (23 July 2008). "They Know What's in Your Medicine Cabinet". Business Week magazine. http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_31/b4094000643943.htm. Retrieved 29 May 2011.[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ Nakashima, Ellen (4 August 2008). "Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302077_pf.html. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
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