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

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How can you expect them to live on a doctor’s salary alone?

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  • SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have pihole at home and this ad wasn’t blocked due it being served from the same domain as the EMR.

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    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, bummer.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank goodness this is illegal in my country.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why am I seeing this? ℹ️

  “You are seeing this because for some reason, you’re living in 2025 without an ad blocker.”

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The ad was served from the same domain as the EMR. Got past my pihole.

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    • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just use ublock origin

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also using something like Google Analytics to track users.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume any corporate owned website uses Google. analytics. I fortunately have their domain blocked at the DNS level

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      go test with a burner device on a different network

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• waz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was in the hospital last month and the screen lock on the computer cart that they use to access your records and record information was showing advertisements.

  It wasn’t even medical related. It was for a fast food chain.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would absolutely leave that practice.

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  • TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The illusion of choice under capitalism

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gods, that’s awful. I would send them a bill for the cost of my attention.

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• moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you click “Why am I seeing this?” does it just say, “America”?

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its just a picture of ashy Larry that says “this you??”

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always felt informed delivery was a solution in search of a problem. Getting an email of a letter that’s coming to me?

    The only solution I could see this for is if you have a PO Box or a remote address.

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    • dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ya, it was only ever mildly useful and easy to just unsubscribe.

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• amelia@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Germany that’s illegal. Maybe in all of the EU.

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• LimpRimble@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My doctor’s office now has ads

  And tracking.

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• datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finally, a place to sell my pills that will triple your dick size

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• houstoneulers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ask for SOTYUKU? How about STFU

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SOTYUKU sounds like one of those shitty Amazon product listings that’s just reselling shit bought from Alibaba/AliExpress.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well were you there for plaque psoriasis treatment because that’s very handy

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  • Tournesol@feddit.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they even got adds in their comments now omg

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