Schering-Plough has changed the start date listed in a government database for the key clinical trial testing the now-controversial cholesterol pill Vytorin, which Schering shares with Merck .
Some of the information disclosed to Mr Ackroyd came from Brady's medical records on a confidential database known as the Patient Administrative and Clinical Information Service (PACIS).
Chief executive Ryan Howard plans to mine what he says is a database of 40 million patients by, for example, helping pharmaceutical companies enroll patients in clinical trials, or monitoring a drug following its release on the market.
But Meyer still hadn't trained the clinical staff or even determined what information they would collect, or how they would enter it into the database.