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Epic faces antitrust lawsuit, Change Healthcare overhauls systems after cyberattack + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
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  Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
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  September 23rd.
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  First,
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  a start up has filed an antitrust
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  lawsuit against Epic Systems
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  alleging that the company is leveraging its position
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  in the EHR market
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  to stifle competition in the payer platform sector.
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  Particle Health, an intelligent data platform that aggregates
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  and delivers actionable patient data and insights to
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  health care companies,
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  filed the lawsuit September 23rd in the US
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  District Court for the Southern District of New
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  York.
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  The lawsuit alleges that Epic is stopping Particle
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  from entering the emerging payer platform market.
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  Jason Pasadero,
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  CEO of Particle, said in a news release
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  shared with Becker's quote,
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  Epic system controls the medical information of nearly
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  every American,
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  meaning one private company has unchecked power over
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  our health care.
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  Now Epic is using that power to Thor,
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  an emerging industry intended to bring payers and
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  providers into closer collaboration for better patient care,
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  end quote.
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  The lawsuit claims that Epic has broken the
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  Sherman Act, a law in the US that
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  prevents unfair competition.
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  Particle is asking for financial damages and a
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  court order to make Epic stop its practices.
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  Becker's reached out to Epic for comment and
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  will update the story if more information becomes
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  available.
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  This lawsuit follows Epic's actions in April when
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  the company accused Particle Health of using patient
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  data in an unauthorized and unethical
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  way that was unrelated to medical treatment.
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  As a result, Epic restricted Particle Health's access
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  to its data. However, Particle asserted that Epic
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  had not completely terminated access to its data
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  for Particle Health and its customers at that
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  time and Particle disputed Epic's allegations.
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  2nd,
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  UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, Change Healthcare, had to start
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  over with its computer systems following a ransomware
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  attack in February,
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  Cyberscoop reported September 19th.
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  Stephen Martin, UnitedHealth Group's chief information security officer,
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  said at the Mandiant Worldwide Information Security Exchange
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  event, quote,
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  when I say start over, I really truly
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  meant start over.
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  The only thing that we kept from the
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  old environment into the new environment was the
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  cables. New routers, new switches, new compute infrastructure,
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  deployed everything from a safe environment truly started
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  over.
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  I felt like that was the only way
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  that we could really ensure that we ended
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  up with something that we could stand behind
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  for the health care space because it's what
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  it deserved, end quote.
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  Mister Martin mentioned that his team has been
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  working on repairs since February, and some of
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  the efforts are still ongoing.
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  He said, quote, we're almost complete with the
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  restoration process, but we worked for months, particularly
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  in those early days, incredibly long hours to
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  restore those services, end quote.
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  The February 21st cyber attack on changed health
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  care crippled financial operations for hospitals, insurers, pharmacies,
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  and medical groups nationwide.
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  In July, the organization began sending out breach
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  notification letters to individuals affected by the attack.
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  3rd,
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  AI powered chatbots and avatars are set to
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  lead IT innovation,
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  emerging as the top trend expected to shape
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  the landscape in 2025,
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  according to a September 17th survey from Infotech
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  Research Group.
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  The survey conducted
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  conducted between March July 2024
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  collected insights from 1,000 IT decision makers worldwide.
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  Respondents represented regions, including the US, Canada, the
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  Asia Pacific region, and Europe, spanning 17 industries
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  such as financial services, health care, government, and
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  manufacturing.
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  Here's what they identified as the 6 key
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  tech trends for 2025.
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  1st is AI
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  avatars and chat bots.
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  2nd is deep fake defenses.
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  3rd is quantum advantage.
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  4 is post quantum
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  chirotography.
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  5 is expert models.
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  6 is AI sovereignty.
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