Chicago-based Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, an electronic medical record provider, has sued New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. after the public hospital operator awarded a contract to competitor Epic, according to a Bloomberg report.
Allscripts filed suit in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claiming its bid represented "savings of up to $535 million in comparison to Epic's proposal," according to the report. It called the contract award to Epic "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and [lacking] a rational basis," according to the report.
New York City Health and Hospitals has said it will defend its decision and that "Allscripts' claim that it underbid Epic by more than half a billion dollars is absurd and strikes us as an ill-fated attempt to reassure investors and inflate its sagging stock price," according to the report.
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Allscripts filed suit in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claiming its bid represented "savings of up to $535 million in comparison to Epic's proposal," according to the report. It called the contract award to Epic "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and [lacking] a rational basis," according to the report.
New York City Health and Hospitals has said it will defend its decision and that "Allscripts' claim that it underbid Epic by more than half a billion dollars is absurd and strikes us as an ill-fated attempt to reassure investors and inflate its sagging stock price," according to the report.
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