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Federal regulators are looking at whether the nation's largest electronic health records company violated competition law.
Antitrust law, which bars dominant companies from using their market position to lock out rivals, is the framework behind a Federal Trade Commission probe into Epic Systems Corp.
Three people recently contacted by FTC investigators confirmed the examination is underway. Electronic health records are the software platforms hospitals and clinics use to manage and share patient data.
Epic is the dominant vendor of those systems in the United States. The company's market position has grown, and its control over Americans' health data has accelerated in recent years.
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