Healthcare IT News September 9, 2025
In allowing key claims to proceed, the ruling marks the first time an antitrust case against Epic has reached this stage of litigation. “Epic’s motion is granted in part and denied in part,” the judge says.
This past week, New York Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald denied Epic Systems’ motion to dismiss all claims in the antitrust lawsuit Particle Health filed last year.
WHY IT MATTERS
Epic claims the lawsuit was filed in retaliation for barring certain Particle Health payer clients from allegedly obtaining confidential patient records under pretenses, and asserted “that Particle has impermissibly gerrymandered a market that is restricted to one sub-group of customers within the broader [electronic health record] software market.”
Buchwald sided with Particle that the relevant...







