An Open Letter to EHR Company "Luminello," Regarding Selling Out to the Man.
In the style of The Pixies classic, "Where is My Mind"
The Frontier Psychiatrists is an indie daily newsletter. I wrote an article a couple of days ago about Luminello, an electronic health record company that was acquired by Simple Practice. I don't use Luminello anymore, but I did. I need the medical records from Luminello to come back to me because, you know, doctor stuff. In summary, I pointed out it is part of a private equity roll-up. I requested my medical records exported, over a week ago.
It's been a bad week for healthcare privacy concerns, and a bad week for health technology exploits, given the change healthcare debacle. I don't need to worry about this as well.
I grew up in the 90s Back then, selling out to the majors wasn't cool. Then technology destroyed the music industry, so it didn't matter anymore. I feel the same way about health selling out private equity. Steve Albini is my favorite recording engineer, he wouldn't put up with his nonsense either. What about artistic vision? One of the things I find parti…