Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I run three offices, and I can tell you we don’t get any of that money. In fact we pay out the ass for whatever bullshit tech company was forced on us by insurance lobbyists to make you see those ads, while they also make the questionaires unreasonably long and uneditable so they can data harvest and make another dollar after tech fees, Ad revenue, service charges, and insurance payments.

  But we can’t just not use them, because every new regulation is a 60,000$ fine, and they send ghost patients at least once a quarter to try and catch violations to rules they lobbied to make as difficult as possible to conform to.

  My EHR system is 1700$ per month per office, and it has only made everything much slower and less personal, while forcing me to constantly do tech support for half of our patients.

  Hippa is supposed to protect us from the data harvesting, but since the insurance companies own the tech, device, ad, and service companies, as well as most offices, they don’t have to sell your data, because they’re the ones who want it.

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    but since the insurance companies own the tech, device, ad, and service companies, as well as most offices,

    And the regulatory bodies. And senators. And representatives.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You run three offices, but don’t know that it’s spelled “HIPAA”, instead of the commonly-misspelled-by-laypeople “HIPPA”? I’m not calling you a liar, but it’s a big red flag when someone claims to work in healthcare and doesn’t know what the single largest piece of legislation surrounding their job is.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Less conspiracy, more auto-correct?

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That would be even worse, because autocorrect is based on your typing history. My phone autocorrects “hippa” to “hips” or “HIPAA”, not the other way around. In fact, it autocorrects “hipaa” to “HIPAA”. If it’s autocorrecting in the other (incorrect) direction, that means they misspell it often enough for their autocorrect to have it noted as a pattern.

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    • SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My keyboard autocorrected it twice, so I gave up and let it spell it wrong, assuming my point would stand either way, since it holds no bearing on the rest of the comment.

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Last time I was directed to sign up for a “patient portal” like this, there was separate terms of service for the portal and for allowing them to use my hippa protected data for ads. I did not consent and had an ad free experience. Recommend reading the TOS and rejecting what you don’t agree to. Gotta send them a warning somehow.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If there is ever a way to continue any process without agreeing to terms, services, data processing etc: that’s my default action.
      I’m not going to check a checkbox unless the form forbids me from continuing without checking it - at which point, I figure out what the checkbox wants

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• Vent@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “You pay me $36,738 to glance at your leg and tell you there’s nothing I can do, and you think me to be satisfied? scoff”

  -Doctors (or, rather, mega health conglomerates that bought all of the doctors in the nation and would prefer to see your entire family die than to lose a nickel)

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