Qlarant: The Einstein Wannabes Who Flunked the United States Opioid Crisis
The “Manhattan Project” of Stupidity Once upon a time, in a realm of unparalleled bureaucratic brilliance, a group of self-proclaimed “data scientists” at Qlarant decided to tackle one of America’s most pressing public health issues, the U.S. opioid...
Pill Mill or Thoughtcrime? Qlarant’s Orwellian Vision of Medicine
“Forget the A-Bomb, Qlarant Drops the Stupid Bomb on Public Health” Health and Human Services (HHS) and Drug Enforcement Agency, in a quest to combat the opioid epidemic, launched the Pill Mill Doctor Project, an initiative with ambitions grand enough to rival the...
STARS in Their Eyes: How Blue Cross Blue Shield Turns Predictive Policing Artificial Intelligence into a Profitable Pseudoscience
Move over fortune-tellers and crystal balls, Independence Blue Cross (IBC) has unveiled its own form of modern-day soothsaying with their STARS and STAR Sentinel artificial intelligence systems. These AI tools promise to root out fraud and waste in healthcare, but a...
Goldilocks and the Metric That Broke Medicine: The Farce of Morphine Milligram Equivalents
Once upon a time, in the magical land of U.S. Government Regulatory Wonderland, a group of bureaucrats gathered to solve a great mystery, how to create a single, unassailable number to compare all opioid chemical substances. “Eureka!” they cried, inventing...Get Your DoC T-shirts
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