Practice Fusion

History

2020: Rollbacks for software configuration under the recommendations of anesthetics

At the beginning of March, 2020 Practice Fusion, the supplier of the electronic medical records (EMR), agreed to pay a penalty in the amount of $145 million Practice Fusion received rollbacks from the large producer of opioid medicines for software configuration with the recommendations of anesthetics that led to several cases of overdoses.

Settlement included $26 million in the form of criminal penalties on two charges. During the investigation Practice Fusion recognized that it "requested and received rollbacks from the large opioid company in exchange for that its software of the EMR pushed doctors to purpose of opioid anesthetics of medicines". In particular, Practice Fusion recognized that it implemented special warnings which had to recommend to doctors purpose of opioids with the prolonged release.

Practice Fusion, the supplier of the electronic medical records (EMR), agreed to pay a penalty in the amount of $145 million

Prosecutor of the District of Vermont Christina E. Nolan (Christina E. Nolan) stated that this arrangement allowed the opioid company "influence the inviolable relations between the doctor and the patient". She added:

The companies illegally agreed and allowed pharmaceutical firm to interfere with incredibly intimate, personal and important decisions on medical care of the patient, including need for the anesthetizing medicines and the choice of a dose.

Within the three-year agreement on a legal prosecution delay the Practice Fusion company agreed to adopt the comprehensive program of observation designed to prevent similar violations in the future. Practice Fusion also agreed to pay in addition $118.6 million for settlement of civil actions about violation of the federal law on counterfeited requirements as the company misled governmental certification body of the medical equipment.^[1]

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