I’ve started seeing more shit like this, even TVs in exam rooms with ads like this.
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.
In Germany that’s illegal. Maybe in all of the EU.
This isn’t the doctor’s office. They have to use this crap for regulatory reasons.
@SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com said it best already: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/18564277
It is insanity to me that medication, especially prescription medication, can be advertised anywhere. Fuck the US healthcare system.
Never understood how its continued. I mean, we all do- lobbying. But when 3/4th of the commercial/ad is just different versions of super death side effects…just why
Well, absent any other gains they wouldn’t do it and I don’t see any other gains. My only assumption is that it must ultimately be profitable.
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.
Less conspiracy, more auto-correct?
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.
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.
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
“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 See you next tomorrow for your weekly checkup, otherwise I’m cutting off all of your prescriptions.”
-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)
Thank goodness this is illegal in my country.
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.
Just use ublock origin
Use both
Or that, yes
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.
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.
Setting up a pi-hole is as easy as some kind of baked desert. Flash your OS to the SD card, boot, install. Follow the prompts and you’ll be golden. The hardest part, depending on your router, may potentially be giving it a static IP and setting it as your DNS server, but those steps are also usually pretty easy.
Thank you! I’m going through the install instructions from the website. Anything particular needed to block all Google Analytics and trackers?
It’s pretty much just does it.
Default settings are good.
I think you can dial in stricter block lists, but might have issues with some websites.
But you can pause PiHole for 5 minutes, allowing you to do what you need to. I think there is even browser plugins to give you an easy toggle button
Just follow the steps on the GitHub, iirc it’s in the default block list.
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. You can vote with your wallet, but we’ll do everything in our power to make every alternative suck ass; from irrational inconvenience all the way to straight killing you.
Yes. One always has the option to call the office and speak with someone, but this isn’t much of an option if the practice fired the employee who used to answer the phones because now they have this handy no-contact solution that just so happens to cost a little bit less per month than what they were paying Brenda to answer the phone. Also, it will cost more than Brenda’s salary in a year when prices go up to increase shareholder revenue.
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??”
My doctor’s office now has ads
And tracking.
Finally, a place to sell my pills that will triple your dick size
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.
