This is really interesting I am not sure which side to support, although Epic is probably doing the right thing:
jon - bear in mind that epic is also lobbying hard to prevent the implementation of a mandatory interoperability federal law in the US. epic is an interesting company in general - it remains privately owned by the founder, its got a super-quirky corporate culture, defined by the founder/owner. It is clearly presently fighting opening its data, and investing heavily in the secondary use of its own data. Its a bit like apple - in that it is certainly harvesting data, using it extensively internally, but presents itself as a privacy defender - when “privacy” is a code word for maintaining data for their company’s bottom line.
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EPIC is also also urging Congress to establish moratoriums on face recognition.
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I don’t doubt that Epic believes they have rights (I don’t think they do). At the bottom of the article they note that they don’t have a problem with Azure or AWS - just Google - so that is probably why I came down on Epics side in this instance.
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Interesting events unfolding here, Health systems versus Tech giants and data accessibility, raising concerns over patient’s Privacy, often wondered it this is really the case?
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