I had a conversation with a pharmacist who took some time to cue me in to what’s going on in the world of “Medication Compliance Predictions” and the impact it has on the life and job of a pharmacist. To tell you the truth, I was absolutely floored at how
much software and algorithms have gone into this process. If you read my recent post about Express Scripts, you’ll understand. The metrics that are being used today are over the top and there’s a lot of money being made “scoring” and selling those scores to anyone who has the money and wants the data.
Medication Adherence Predictions Enter the World of Quantitated Justifications For Things That Are Just Not True, Members of the Proprietary “Code Hosing” Clubs Out There Destroying Your Privacy
That’s right, if you pay cash you are now considered an “Outlier” by the software firms that collect and sell data on prescriptions. Pharmacists are now seeing patients being given “5 star ratings” on their compliance. Where does this data come from? There are many sources available. First off they can buy your credit card data from MasterCard and any other charge card company and some of these transaction have more than 100-200 fields of data about you available. We all know about the “reward” programs and how those are gate keepers to mine data and sell it, but it appears now that credit card transactions are also in the picture.
CVS to Share More Medication Adherence Love With New Contracts–Will Have More Data to Sell…
