A former Epic Systems employee has sued the EHR vendor alleging its noncompete agreement and related policies violate California law.
Andrea Hull filed the lawsuit July 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Ms. Hull lives in Concord, Calif. She worked for Epic and its staffing subsidiary, Boost, for about 11 1/2 years before leaving in March to join Abbott Diabetes Care as an EHR implementation manager.
Boost is an internal consulting and staff augmentation division of Epic. It provides project management and technical staff augmentation to Epic customers rolling out or upgrading systems.
Here are four things to know about the lawsuit:
- The lawsuit names Epic and Boost as defendants, according to the complaint reviewed by Becker’s. It alleges the companies’ employment agreement includes a one-year noncompete clause, along with related nonsolicitation and confidentiality provisions, that are void under California Business and Professions Code sections 16600, 16600.1 and 16600.5. Those statutes bar noncompete agreements against California employees regardless of where a contract was signed, according to the complaint.
- Ms. Hull alleges that after she joined Abbott, Epic denied her application for UserWeb credentials, which are used for conference registration, technical documentation and certification maintenance. Epic cited a one-year “cooling off” period for former employees. According to the complaint, an Abbott program manager wrote in an email that Abbott had been told former Epic employees “should not be working on Epic direct, related work for 12 months.” Abbott subsequently removed Ms. Hull from customer trips, an industry conference and other meetings tied to Epic, the complaint states.
- The complaint also challenges no-hire and no-poach provisions Ms. Hull alleges are included in Epic’s contracts with its customers. She argues those provisions restrain former employees’ job mobility even though the employees are not parties to those contracts.
- Ms. Hull is not seeking monetary damages. She is asking the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, including an order barring Epic and Boost from enforcing the noncompete and related provisions against her and other California-based former employees, along with attorneys’ fees.
The lawsuit adds to a string of legal challenges over Epic’s employment practices. Veeva Systems is appealing the April dismissal of its own Wisconsin lawsuit over Epic’s noncompete agreements, and the state of Texas sued Epic in December 2025 alleging its noncompete and no-hire agreements restrict employee mobility.
Becker’s reached out to Epic for comment and will update the story if more information is received.
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