Showdown in NY federal appeals court begins over data mining of prescription drugs

NEW YORK — So-called data-mining companies that collect information about the drugs doctors prescribe asked an appeals court Tuesday to stop Vermont from enacting a law next week restricting their work.

Drug use data: Boon to medical progress or cost driver? Courts to decide

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The prescription drugs you take are on the minds of a lot of people: judges on two federal courts, legislators in several states, countless doctors and, at the center, the companies that make money by figuring out who’s prescribing what.