Epic said Particle should call on Carequality to publicly release the results of the dispute between the two companies.

Healthcare software giant Epic Systems was hit with a lawsuit on Monday by a startup accusing it of unlawfully controlling the market for U.S. medical records, harming patient care and causing health plans to pay higher costs.

Health data startup Particle Health sued electronic health records giant Epic Systems for federal antitrust violations on Monday, charging it uses its control over troves of patient records to stifle competition.

Particle Health, a startup that helps providers and health technology companies aggregate and share data, filed a suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging Epic is using its market power to prevent products that would compete with the EHR company's payer platform .

Particle Health filed a federal antitrust lawsuit on Monday against Epic Systems Corporation. The suit alleged that the privately held software company is using its monopoly power over electronic health records (EHRs) to bar Particle from the platform market.

A health data company has sued Epic Systems, alleging that the EHR software vendor has used its market dominance to thwart competition.