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There might be some fear of competition. Google is offering healthcare solutions some of which seem to be angled at "owning" the healthcare data. I'm only vaguely familiar with Epic's offerings but a lot of these solutions that Google offers seem to encroach in that territory:

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/healthcare-life-sciences/

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/modernize-legacy-apps/

https://cloud.google.com/healthcare/

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Epic doesn’t “own” any of the EHR data in their customer’s databases. Not sure when “competition “ you refer to can be considered to come from.

Sorry - by "own" I meant that it's in their system, a "walled garden". Any other vendor system looking to integrate has to sign business deals with Epic in addition to whatever institution is using it. I did not mean that Epic gets access to see and use that data as what seems to be a separate concern people have of Google.

Google is now building an EHR as direct competition to Epic. It's definitely related to this move. Fwiw I welcome Google's entrance to this market because Epic's EHR and business practices are equally aweful.

Do you mean that Epic's EHR and business practices are equally awful to each other, or to Google's EHR and business practices (is Google's EHR in the state that its awfulness can be proclaimed?)

Epic's is significantly worse than Google's.

Google's EHR, are you referring to this youtube video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3SYqcPXqNk

Because it (atleast the demo) looks like readonly-data aggregation application (that has somesort note functionality that is not directly linked to actual ehr data)

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