Reuters Correspondent: Companies and Data

reuters correspondent: How you did you discover that medical data is being traded without patients' knowledge Adam Tanner I wrote a book that came out in 2014 called What Stays in Vegas, which is about how companies gather information about you and use it to sell you things, according to Deutsche Welle. As I was exploring the dark side of this practice, I began to look at what happens with our medical data. In his new book Our Bodies, Our Data How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records, the former Reuters correspondent writes how middleman companies connecting pharmacies, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies are making huge profits by selling anonymized personal details about health consumers' medical conditions. And I was quite surprised to learn that there's this extensive trade that's almost completely hidden from the general public. Your name may be removed, but there's other intimate information about you that's collected over time, put into a dossier and that eventually becomes a commercial product. Your medical tests, hospital exit records, doctor notes, pharmacy records - all of this sensitive information is collected and sold by commercial companies. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.