Becker's Healthcare May 1, 2024
Epic says it winnowed its noncompete list to a “few dozen” health IT companies after leadership realized how large the index had grown.
The EHR vendor requires employees to sign agreements that they won’t work for certain competitors a year or two after leaving the company. In 2021, however, that noncompete list ballooned to about 4,500 companies, including nine health systems, according to a 2023 Isthmus story.
“For most of Epic’s lifetime, we limited the noncompete to a list of about a dozen IT vendors that were direct competitors and about a dozen consulting firms,” a company spokesperson told Becker’s. “Then for a while that got expanded to a much larger list. When Epic management realized that, the list went...