Texas Files Antitrust Suit Against Epic Systems Over Health Data

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Epic Systems Corp. for antitrust violations, accusing the healthcare software company of leveraging its control over patient medical records to maintain dominance in the market.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in state court in Texas, claims that the software giant is the dominant provider of electronic health records, or EHS, in the US and uses that position to run an “anticompetitive playbook” that harms competitors and prevents hospitals and patients from accessing key data.

“For decades, Epic has amassed control over patient data by locking up hospitals into Epic’s EHS, which in turn allows ...