Epic is urging Carequality, an interoperability network, to disclose the findings of a previous dispute involving Particle Health, which raised concerns about the company’s data-sharing practices.
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said 100% of Epic health systems can interoperate and athenahealth has a high interoperability rate, but that still leaves a lot of organizations that can’t easily share data.
According to KLAS, Oracle Health ranks second in the U.S. hospital market share, with approximately 23.4% of acute care hospitals utilizing its platform, following Epic.
From October 2020 and March 2024, the VA’s Oracle Health EHR system experienced 826 “major performance incidents,” a Sept. 23 report from the VA’s inspector general office found.
A startup has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems alleging that the company is leveraging its position in the EHR market to stifle competition in the payer platform sector.
Two New York health systems are outsourcing their Epic implementations to allow them to switch to an EHR that is sometimes out of reach for smaller organizations.