From its founding days, Carequality knew that overseeing the flow of sensitive patient information in U.S. health care would be a tricky business. But the data exchange nonprofit with a staff of five probably never imagined finding itself in the middle of one of the biggest, and ugliest, antitrust fights in recent memory.
On one side is one of its biggest and most influential users: the nation’s largest electronic health records vendor, Epic Systems. On the other is Particle Health, a small startup in the data-sharing space that accuses Epic of muzzling its access to critical patient data and ruining its business.
And now, each side wants Carequality to prove that it is right.
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