Take your health data "off the market"

Patient Privacy Rights is launching a Campaign for Prescription Privacy, to introduce to the public perhaps one of the easiest health privacy concepts to grasp. Nearly all of us take a prescription medication at some point in our lives. Nowadays, our drugs are as good as our diagnosis. Most Americans think it is their right to keep information like their drug regimen private. It’s easy to understand why you would want to prevent others from knowing that you take Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax, Viagra, Cialis, birth control, Valtrex, or AZT—just to name a few.


But the reality is you can’t. Even if you pay cash. All 51,000 pharmacies in the U.S. sell your PHI to insurance companies and underwriters, pharmaceutical companies and other dataminers. Arguably, the data can be bought and sold by anyone who wants to purchase it.


Sign the Petition to "Take Your Prescription Data Off the Market!"