The Denver-based health IT company HealthTrio has filed a software patent infringement lawsuit against Aeta and two of its technology subsidiaries.
Filed in the U.S. Court District of Colorado, the lawsuit alleges that Active Health Management's personal health record and administrative software and Medicity's health information exchange software both use "methods and systems" that HealthTrio has patented.
HealthTrio is claiming infringement of 10 patents. The most recent was granted on November 27 and covers "A computer system that extracts health care data from one or more health care payors to identify meaningful relationships or patterns in treatments to compare the effectiveness of various treatment of specific diseases."
HealthTrio CEO Malik Hasan, MD, a neurologist who founded the company in 2005, is the main inventor for most of the patents. Hasan said in a media release that "HealthTrio's ultimate goal is to create a patient-centric electronic healthcare record that is comprehensive in its scope and that facilitates information-sharing among all health care participants – patients, hospitals, health care providers, and health insurance companies."
"We have been innovators and market-leaders in the field of healthcare information technology dating back to the founding of our company," he said.
HealthTrio is being represented by attorneys from the Dallas-based Skiermont Puckett and the Denver-based Sheridan Ross, and is seeking unspecified monetary damages.
Aetna says it's reviewing the lawsuit.
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