Catch of the Week: Practice Fusion Pays $145 Million for EHR Kickbacks and Misrepresentations about Software
Healthcare providers talk about the importance of behavioral “nudges” – gentle pushes to encourage healthy choices and positive behaviors. In our Catch of the Week, healthcare providers were nudged to prescribe highly addictive extended-release opioids in a manner that was not consistent with accepted medical standards. Who nudged them? Their own electronic health records system, which was paid to do so by the pharmaceutical company that made the drugs. In...