"In exchange for “sponsorship” payments from pharmaceutical companies, Practice Fusion allowed the companies to influence the development and implementation of the CDS alerts in ways aimed at increasing sales of the companies’ products", talk about targeted advertisements 
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"The companies illegally conspired to allow the drug company to have its thumb on the scale at precisely the moment a doctor was making incredibly intimate, personal, and important decisions about a patient’s medical care, including the need for pain medication", just truly sick.
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But what's truly disappointing about this case is that given the incredibly morbid facts, that there was no executive liability being brought forward here. The founders – Alan Wong, Jonathan Malek, Matthew Douglass, Ryan Howard – should likely all have been put on trial.
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Also, again, reminder that this startup was backed by who's who of vulture capital: Thiel's Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and a laundry list of other accessories to this addiction kick-back scheme. Disgusting.
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I once saw Ryan Howard speak about what it took personally for him to get Practice Fusion off the ground, and the effort nearly destroyed his life. I have to wonder if that kind of corporate foundation leads to success-at-any-cost thinking and all these amoral companies.
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Wonder if he sits with any consideration for the lives that may well have been destroyed by colluding with opioid makers to get patients hooked. Probably not. It's all about the personal sacrifice mythology.
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When a doctor is caught mis-prescribing opioids for personal profit, he loses his license. Am I missing the part where this company is prohibited from further work in health care Or do they just cough up a small % of their profits and keep chugging?
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I'm just so sick of people doing these kinds of things in their work without consequence. We need a better social net so folks can feel comfortable telling their employer "no"
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"Start with an addicted userbase then build your killer app around that." -- advice from a VC in the valley circa 2015
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No jail time for anyone
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