[marcinzm]

Hospitals are liable for data breaches and leaks, they have a direct incentive in making data as hard to access as possible.

[FireBeyond]

Eh, as someone who deals with EPIC, ESO, and a few others... that's not the real motivation.

Epic will _happily_ interconnect with other systems for data sharing.

I mean Epic will happily _sell_ you interconnects with other systems, and will generally bill you on top a per patient, per export fee.