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by rnovak 4316 days ago
As both a developer and someone who takes medicine, I'd just like to say: NO

I shred my Prescription labels, and now they're basically going to be opened up to the world for some stupid developer to expose because he/she didn't think it through?

Apple's location data was secure until 3rd party apps leaked it. No thanks. The convenience is not worth the loss in security/privacy

1 comments

Read the docs.

All they give out is the store location/pickup time for an RX# request, no identification info, no medication info.

If it's implemented correctly. How many top tech companies implement their API's perfectly the first, second, or even hundredth time around? Walgreens isn't a tech company.

As the patient, the person who's information is being stored, I should have the ONLY say so over what happens to that information EVER, and if they don't get that, I have no problem taking my business elsewhere, which it looks like I'll have to do.

To clarify, our Rx Refill API is "inbound" in nature only. If the patient initiates a refill, one can be completed. This is not an API around "outbound" information from Walgreens systems. Hope that helps to clarify.