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ARTICLE · 25 AUGUST 2022

Dutch Regulator Wants Better Functioning Markets For IT-healthcare

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The Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") has made several suggestions with its new draft Guidance regarding "Well-functioning markets for healthcare IT" ("Draft Guidance IT-Healthcare").

NetherlandsAntitrust/Competition Law
Pauline Kuipers
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The Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") has made several suggestions with its new draft Guidance regarding "Well-functioning markets for healthcare IT" ("Draft Guidance IT-Healthcare").1 Amongst them are no impediments for data exchange, no abuse of vendor lock-in, room for collaboration between healthcare providers in procurement and the use of standards.

The market for IT-Healthcare has featured on the ACM's agenda for a long time. The ACM started a market survey in 2021, held several meetings with companies who are active in the market for IT-healthcare and also received several signals. All of this indicated that healthcare providers are often too dependent on their IT supplier as many IT-systems can only interact with other IT systems of the same IT supplier. This results in a situation where healthcare providers cannot exchange data with each other when they don't use the same IT systems. There are also difficulties in exchanging data from one IT

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