Politico July 25, 2024
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DATA DISPUTE ROILS HEALTH TECH — A conflict over whether patient data was shared properly involving electronic health records giant Epic is fueling angst about the security of medical information in the sector, Ben reports.
Epic leads in market share for digital health records in hospitals, and it’s at the center of the dispute that’s playing out behind closed doors.
The nitty-gritty: Epic claims that Integritort, which provides medical record analyses for legal cases, incorrectly accessed the EHR company’s patient data through Carequality, a nonprofit framework for sharing health data, using health IT firm Particle Health. Epic says Integritort retrieved the data by falsely claiming it was for treatment purposes, which made it easier to gain access...
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