All I can tell you is that we, at IMS Health Canada, do not have access to patient files and we do not want to have access to them. We cannot talk about 100% because there are always exceptions, which by the way are covered by the act, but in 99.999% of the cases, we use the information generated by what we call the work product in the doctor-patient relationship in order to improve services to the population without knowing the identity of the patient.
On February 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.