Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker

Post by jessaustin » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:15 AM UTC

mcguire wrote: post #130

vharuck wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But even if the developers had ethical concerns, they had no recourse but to quit, and be replaced by someone else I'm not saying that everyone who touched the software should be indicted, but there were options beyond quitting. They could've told the customers, the news outlets, or the government. Of course, when you're surrounded by people doing the same thing and nobody else is speaking up, it's not unreasonable…

Whistleblowing is likely worse than quitting.

Post by pnw_hazor » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #199

pnw_hazor wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US negligence law encourages physicians to follow "the medical standard of care." This means doing what they are taught in medical school shields MDs from liability until the standard of care changes. The law discourages MDs from deviating from "standard" practice because doing so removes the "standard of care" liability shield. The software developers are not protected by the "standard of care" shield. The software…

Going through medical school and years of post-doc training makes physicians less responsible than people with no medical knowledge whatsoever? Yikes! If this is true, I hope the AMA lobbyists who bribed that turd onto the books were paid well for their evil deeds... It's probably also not great for patients with rare diseases, that physicians are penalized for trying to solve problems no physician has solved before.

Post by annoyingnoob » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

KoftaBob wrote: post #88

"Practice Fusion admitted to the scheme with an unnamed opioid maker, though the details of the government case closely match a public research partnership between Practice Fusion and Purdue Pharma Inc., which makes OxyContin." Color me surprised that it's probably Purdue. Every asset that the Sackler family owns should be seized.

Post by dang » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 2:03 AM UTC

chadmeister wrote: post #15

This is one of the most comically evil things I've ever heard of. I bet you the person who designed this feature is on hacker news as we speak. If you are and you see this I hope you get run over by a bus today.

Post by thoughtstheseus » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 2:11 AM UTC