Right‑to‑Repair Settlement Shows Interoperability Beats Antitrust Breakups
Interoperability wins come in all shapes and sizes. This week's shape is... tractor? John Deere just agreed to a $99 million right-to-repair settlement that includes a 10-year court-supervised mandate to open its diagnostic tooling to farmers and independent repair shops. The antitrust theory: a dominant manufacturer used control over a software layer to monopolize a downstream service market and foreclose competition from independents. Swap "manufacturer" for "EHR vendor" and "diagnostic software" for "integration APIs" and you're reading about health IT. New Daily Ping on why right-to-repair is an interoperability mandate, why voluntary commitments don't work, and why antitrust in software doesn't end in breakups. It ends in interoperability.
DTC Affiliate Marketing Shifts to GLP‑1s Amid Pharma Proxy War
Look, I'd be lying if I said this was the first (or second or fiftieth) MEDVi article. But this is about more than MEDVi or even all the spam, grey zone marketing, and Succession-level drama of business partners acquired by...
AI Agents Challenge Vendor Control Over Software Use
We’re about to spend the next decade in tech arguing about something that used to feel settled: who actually gets to decide how software is used once it’s deployed. For most of the last 30 years, the answer was straightforward. The...
FTC Launches Healthcare Task Force to Curb Epic’s Dominance
This administration let Hewlett Packard Enterprise keep Juniper Networks, settled with Ticketmaster, and let Google keep Chrome. But healthcare keeps being the exception. The Federal Trade Commission's new Healthcare Task Force looks like the beginning of a coordinated enforcement apparatus...
FHIR Interoperability Accelerates with New APIs and Docs
It's important to celebrate the interoperability wins just as often as leaning in on all the drama. To that extent, let's start the clap as @eClinicalWorks just dropped 9 new FHIR APIs, including full CRUD on Coverage and e-prescribing data...
Pro Se Lawsuit Targets Epic to Circumvent Texas Malpractice Rules
A pro se plaintiff just sued @HeyEpic in federal court, arguing its EHR architecture is a defective product. But sneakily, I don’t think it’s about Epic at all: it's a discovery pathway around the Texas malpractice rules that froze her...
Beyond the Hype: Subtle HIMSS Wins over Flashy Demos
HIMSS had a cat pit, a robot hand on someone's head, and an AI announcement from basically every vendor alive. But we liked other subtler stories: @HeyEpic soft-launching a pharmacy network product that perhaps could eventually take on @Surescripts, a...
Epic's Lawsuit Becomes Evidence in New Data Breach Cases
Three new data breach class actions against @HeyEpic landed Friday in the Western District of Wisconsin, all claiming data breach against the company and a variety of its health system customers. The twist: the complaints cite Epic's own lawsuit against...
Judge Denies Epic's Dismissal Motion, Loss Expected
Another big Epic litigation update, as Judge Fillmore denied Epic's Motion to Dismiss in full in Texas v. Epic. It’s a loss, but somewhat of an expected one, as the state specific 91a pleading standard is a low bar. https://t.co/S9eI9qwFOV
Epic Partnerships Shrink, Garden Plot Expansion Leads 2026
@HeyEpic's Workshop category is down to 3 vendors, as @PressGaney just got moved to Toolbox, and the rest are likely to follow. So what does it actually look like to partner with Epic in 2026? I mapped it out (from...