Submitted 22 hours ago by CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/b713cbe1-1a7f-4332-9202-f497939a5805.webp
I’ve started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.
How can you expect them to live on a doctor’s salary alone?
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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)
In Germany that’s illegal. Maybe in all of the EU.
Yeesh. I’m glad I have uBlock Origin and also AdGuard Home. uBlock Origin is much easier, but both combined means pretty much no ads in my entire house.
I have pihole at home and this ad wasn’t blocked due it being served from the same domain as the EMR.
Oh yeah, bummer.
Thank goodness this is illegal in my country.
This isn’t the doctor’s office. They have to use this crap for regulatory reasons.
@SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com said it best already: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/18564277
Why am I seeing this? ℹ️
“You are seeing this because for some reason, you’re living in 2025 without an ad blocker.”
The ad was served from the same domain as the EMR. Got past my pihole.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also using something like Google Analytics to track users.
I assume any corporate owned website uses Google. analytics. I fortunately have their domain blocked at the DNS level
Got any link or some info on how I could block them too? Just ordered a raspberry pie for my own piehole and got a lot to figure out.
go test with a burner device on a different network
I would absolutely leave that practice.
My orthopedic surgeon uses this exact same system (phreesia). I can’t leave the practice, because they’re the only ones in my area who will accept my insurance.
Isn’t that fun?
The illusion of choice under capitalism
Gods, that’s awful. I would send them a bill for the cost of my attention.
If you click “Why am I seeing this?” does it just say, “America”?
Its just a picture of ashy Larry that says “this you??”
Yeah there was a minute where my urologist’s office — against their will, I am sure — had big-ass screens on the walls of exam rooms and they were brighter than the sun. They were gone within a month.
My doctor’s office now has ads
And tracking.
Finally, a place to sell my pills that will triple your dick size
Ask for SOTYUKU? How about STFU
SOTYUKU sounds like one of those shitty Amazon product listings that’s just reselling shit bought from Alibaba/AliExpress.
I discovered even worse recently. The office i went to added a third party wellness company to the new patient sign up process, so you were agreeing to their payment policy then next page is a nice dark pattern to join some bullshit company.
Well were you there for plaque psoriasis treatment because that’s very handy
they even got adds in their comments now omg
dmtalon@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
Somewhat related.
I just unsubscribed from the USPS “Informed Delivery” email which used to just send an email if you were getting mail and it would contain the scanned fronts of those mail pieces.
Now you get it every day, and it has ads. Sometimes one, sometimes more. But, you have to look past/through the ads to get to the data, so they just won’t get my eyeballs at all.