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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by JshWright on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#22172708)
> Software engineers are in no position to be suggesting or discussing individual clinical decisions.

Boy am I glad I work for an EHR that doesn't agree with you... If I was asked to implement a CDS rule that wasn't based on some reasonable clinical guideline (CMS quality measures, etc) you'd better believe I'd push back on it and want to understand where it was coming from.

Healthcare isn't some dark art that engineers couldn't possibly understand. These rules should be based on publicly available and widely agreed upon standards of care.

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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by pbreit on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:04PM (#22176879)
The Practice Fusion ones almost certainly would fit your crieria. Ie “after [x] type of surgery, fentanyl and oxycontin are reasonable painkillers”. (Both entirely legal and widely prescribed today)
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Re:Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed a... by JshWright on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:19PM (#22197058)
No one should be getting extend release opioids after a surgery...
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