For a quick simple answer, I went to IMS Health, which tracks prescription data.
Last June New Hampshire became the first state to pass a law that banned the collection and sale of prescription data.
James Reddoch, an analyst Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, used prescription data from NDC Health to forecast the performance of biotech companies that he covers.
But raw prescription data shows another story, with the number of new scripts for each drug plummeting since worries about Celebrex arose in mid-December.
Newly released prescription data reveals a mixed picture and the drugmaker has now begun a free promotion for a 14-day starter dose to entice the obese.
AdverseEvents plans to post prescription data for some drugs.
The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
Some hope for Merck and Schering's sales may come from Impact Rx, a prescription data service that bases its predictions on the behavior of a select group of doctors who prescribe high volumes of drugs.
Our list of the most popular psychiatric drugs, which is based on 2009 prescription data provided by the pharmacy data experts at IMS Health, provides a deep look into the mind-altering medicines that have changed the way we live.
In 2004 the company, with USAid, launched a pilot program that lets doctors adjust an HIV patient's antiviral prescription by entering data into a card reader.
The Fund's prescription at the time was based on economic data which subsequently turned out to have exaggerated the extent of the crisis.
The study included patients admitted to the hospital with recently diagnosed AF in the province of Quebec, Canada, from 1998-2007, using administrative data with linkage between hospital discharge, physicians, and prescription drug claims databases.
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