{"id":9550,"date":"2020-01-31T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=aa5a13978cd9b2586e7e371f87d8277e"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:32:57","slug":"your-doctors-computer-may-have-suggested-opioids-because-drugmakers-paid-to-tweak-the-software-doj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"Your doctor&rsquo;s computer may have suggested opioids because drugmakers paid to tweak the software, DOJ says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/1\/31\/21115692\/opioids-software-practice-fusion-justice-painkillers-charges-medical-records\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Ooh, a horrible consequence of \"expert [support] systems\" I hadn't thought much about because it's so transparently shitty; intentional manipulation by interest groups.<\/div><img alt=\"US-HEALTH-OPIOID-OXYCODON-ILLUSTRATION\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/U1s1RTsGvysSOUpB97p8VB0-lWc=\/0x0:4211x2807\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66228042\/1169089775.jpg.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><small>ERIC BARADAT\/AFP via Getty Images<\/small>\n\n  <p>San Francisco-based medical records startup Practice Fusion allegedly developed software for pharmaceutical companies to help increase the number of prescriptions doctors wrote for pain medications, according to a settlement with the US Department of Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-01-30\/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>reports. The company, which supplied its software to tens of thousands of doctors offices nationwide, admitted doing so as part of a $145 million federal settlement this week to resolve civil and criminal penalties, including $113 million to be paid to the federal government and more than $5 million to states. <\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s how the software worked: When a health care provider accessed a patient&rsquo;s electronic health records (EHR) on Fusion&rsquo;s software, a pop-up window would appear...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/1\/31\/21115692\/opioids-software-practice-fusion-justice-painkillers-charges-medical-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERIC BARADAT\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>  San Francisco-based medical records startup Practice Fusion al&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}