Practice Fusion, a SF-based electronic health-records maker, made a secret deal to nudge doctors to prescribe more opioids. Pharmaceutical company paid just $1m for a program that ensnared over 3,000 victims, many of whom may well have become addicts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal …
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And the consequence for pushing doctors to prescribe ever more opioids in collusion with opioid makers? Just a fine. No criminal indictments. WTF? The CEO and any other executives with knowledge of this program should be in fucking jail.
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Practice Fusion raised money from Band of Angels, Felicis Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Founders Found, Artis Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Longtitude Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, ORIX Growth Capital. All these vultures saw a pitch for ad-supported health records and said YES!
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So the next question: Which of these funds had a board member oversee the actions of the company, and their absolutely morbid actions to push more opioids? They’re all complicit, but some are clearly more complicit than others.
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Of course pushing opioids for cash was not the only ethically bankrupt thing Practice Fusion did. What other skeletons (figuratively or literally) do they have in the closet? https://twitter.com/martina_skelly/status/1222893440385445892?s=21 …https://twitter.com/martina_skelly/status/1222893440385445892 …
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Is there a more natural yet unholy union than that between Silicon Valley health startups and opioid-pushing pharmaceuticals? How did you get such engagement numbers?? Oooohh narcotics. You sly dog.. Let’s do a deal together!!
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It also sent patients requests for reviews without doctors knowledge. Reviews were for a public review site to promote Practice Fusion and patients provided feedback they thought was private and for the doctor, including protected health information to a public review site.
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As supported health records? Sounds like zuckerbergs wet dream! lol...
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Likely a record keeping software which was free, earning through ads to docs. Not records sold in ads.
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Toxic pursuit of wealth.
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