Italy's privacy watchdog fines IQVIA 7 milioni di euro over health data of un milione di pazienti
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, fined IQVIA Solutions Italy S.r.l. 7 milioni di euro. The company built a database with health information on un milione di pazienti from 800 family doctors, used for studies partly commissioned by pharmaceutical companies. The Garante ruled the data was not anonymous because a code linked each patient across time, and gave the company 120 giorni to bring its processing into line or have the doctors anonymize the data.
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What does it mean?
If you were a patient of a family doctor, your health information may have been collected and used for research without you being properly told. The regulator found this was not allowed and fined the company 7 milioni di euro.
Who is affected?
Patients of medici di medicina generale whose health information was included in the IQVIA database.