How third parties harvest health data from providers, payers and pharmacies

Modern Healthcare: As the healthcare industry continues to struggle with interoperability, there's one realm in which patient data move remarkably freely: the secondary market.

Indeed, hackers aren't the only ones making money off of patient health data. Legitimate companies are cashing in too, including health systems, pharmacies and occasionally electronic health record vendors—and the third parties purchasing the data.

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