> To doctors opening patients’ electronic records across the U.S., the alert would have looked innocuous enough.
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> A pop-up would appear, asking about a patient’s level of pain. Then, a drop-down menu would list treatments ranging from a referral to a pain specialist to a prescription for an opioid painkiller.
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> Click a button, and the program would create a treatment plan. From 2016 to spring 2019, the alert went off about 230 million times. [source](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal)