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Easy to imagine: patient records will now include ads for expensive drugs. Doctors can make $ on the side by referring patients to Google Pharma. Drug labs can
by Rygian 4y ago
Easy to imagine: patient records will now include ads for expensive drugs. Doctors can make $ on the side by referring patients to Google Pharma. Drug labs can dig a moat around their products by buying ad placements in doctors' digital prescription pads.
- thisgoodlife 4y agoI’m all for it if it means free health care.
- Rygian 4y agoNo, you keep paying the same or more.
- TuringNYC 4y agoSo ads for drugs but the product is free like Google search? Count me in. My mom spends half her social security check on medical care.
- Rygian 4y agoNot sure what you think "the product" is and how it would help your mom. The relevant part of the article is about selling you smartwatches, selling doctors software so they can share your medical history with Google, and selling you potentially better skin moisturizer. None of that will be free.
- sargun 4y agoThis already exists: * there are prescription management companies (middlemen) who already advertise ("recommend") to doctors * doctors no longer directly get kickbacks, because the FDA * you don't think drug companies don't already control what doctors see? https://pulsepoint.com/hcp-marketing https://pulsepoint.com/hcp-marketing * who do you think finances medicine information?