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You don’t need to convince me. Convince the judge. Convince the Attorney Generals in all 50 states. Then, convince the doctors that trusted you that the legal exposure they’ve incurred on your behalf is justified. Then, convince your investors why you are spending millions of their dollars in bizdev to accumulate a “market share” that you can’t defend in court. Then, convince the Cerners and the Epics why they should pay to acquire you when they can simply hire their own team of engineers to copy your product.

Practice Fusion’s data security and privacy policies are not the topics of contention. Practice Fusion discloses protected health information for commercial advantages. That’s exactly the definition of “targeted advertising based on your medical records.” I have a good faith belief that the practice opposed is unlawful. It’s that simple.

Ask your grandfather or the lady who teaches your children or your next door neighbor what they would think if their medical doctor exchanged their private medical records to marketers and researchers in exchange for free internet website services.

Really? Joe American’s prostate exam and INR is the “next tech goldmine“? All behind his back? On the computer? Over the Internet? To more smarmy marketers, lifestyle coaches, and insurance middlemen? While they themselves are worried about paying the bills and jobs for their kids?

“Oh! But it’s like Facebook! For bowel cancer!”

I’ll tell you what: the real “next goldmine”? —you in red state court.

Did you know that you can be served by email in Texas?

For the love of God: 23andMe was a little risque, but now every crack comp sci fresh from Stanford is falling over to be the Zynga of EMR? IT IS NOT 1997. That was 13 years ago. 13 Years. The world is not the same. There will not be another dot-com boom. You are not 16. You are not liberating indi rock from The Man. You are 30. You are entrusted with the most private informatics of your fellow citizens. Have some respect.

The millions of dollars you spent on SoHo parties: you could have paid the salaries of a team of doctors for years. Then, when parties don’t convince the masses, you stamp out a CRUD apps, pop another quarter in the PR machine, and strut around like, OK, THIS TIME you’ll be the saviors of American Healthcare. Why? Because you play video games at work? And that makes you revolutionaries?

Shame on you. Just… how do you people stand to be around each other? XBox?