"We will not allow woke corporations to undermine the sacred rights of parents to protect and oversee their kids' medical well-being," Paxton said in a statement. "This lawsuit aims to ensure that Texans can readily obtain access to these records and benefit from the lower costs and innovation that come from a truly competitive electronic health records market."
"Epic controls who can access this data, when they can access it, and the terms by which they can access it - despite the simple fact that it is the hospitals' and patients' data, not Epic's," the lawsuit reads."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Epic Systems of monopolizing the U.S. electronic health record (EHR) market and obstructing patient access to medical records. Epic operates EHR systems in over 3,600 U.S. hospitals, roughly 42% of the acute care hospital market, and reported $5.7 billion in revenue last year. The complaint alleges Epic leverages its dominant position to prevent hospitals from switching to rival EHRs, restricts data access for non-Epic systems, delays or blocks transfers of patient records, limits parental access to children's records at certain ages, and enforces noncompete agreements that constrain rival hiring. Epic has denied the allegations.
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