Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending February 2: PMS vendor fined $145m for opioid kickbacks, Epic against info blocking rule, Apple's health hype, AI in imaging, operating room interoperability, NHS's £140m AI fund, EMR systems “balkanised”, Walmart Health, 3D printed orthodontics, medical device vulnerabilities
Practice Fusion to pay $145M settlement for taking kickbacks aimed at increasing opioid prescriptions
FierceHealthcare ~ Heather Landi ~ 27/01/2020
Web-based electronic health record company Practice Fusion will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges it engaged in a kickback scheme aimed at increasing opioid prescriptions.
Epic continues campaign for changes to forthcoming ONC info blocking rules
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Miliard ~ 29/01/2020
The company has been lobbying hospital leaders to oppose them and has said it might sue HHS, depending on the final rules' data provisions.
