Forbes reports on medical records startup Practice Fusion—which recently received $134 million in venture capital—and its potential privacy problem. The company offers free patient management services. It also has 75 million records of patients’ health conditions and prescriptions. The data is allegedly de-identified and then becomes available for analysts, pharma companies and market research. It launched a doctor review site in April filled with 30,000 doctor profiles and more than 2 million patient reviews. In some cases, neither the doctors nor patients knew the reviews would be available publicly. Meanwhile, Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) has called on Walgreens to answer the privacy impact of its new “Well experience” pharmacy model.
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