Politico June 24, 2025
With help from Aaron Mak
As health care companies scramble to embrace artificial intelligence, they’re finding a very familiar 800-pound gorilla — and a squad of smaller ones — standing in their way.
AI requires massive amounts of information to work. In health care, that means bulk data to build models, and also individual data to tailor diagnoses and treatments to patients. And the data for just over half of all U.S. acute care hospital beds is controlled by a single company.
The giant is 45-year-old Epic Systems, by far the biggest player in the tightly regulated world of American health data. And as AI and automation startups try to stake out their ground, they’re launching legal fights that could...
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