Epic files to dismiss antitrust lawsuit

Healthcare IT News December 20, 2024
Andrea Fox

The court battle with Particle Health highlights how national health information exchange networks rely on a chain of trust that can be broken, jeopardizing patient privacy under HIPAA.

Epic Systems asked the court Thursday evening to support its motion to dismiss Particle Health’s complaint that the company violated a federal antitrust statute.

In addition to detailing why the plaintiff failed to allege “tortious interference” with prospective business relationships and contracts, Epic said in the filing that the case was retribution for revealing that Particle had enabled some of its customers to obtain confidential patient medical records under false pretenses on the Carequality health information exchange network.

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