Maternity care administration platform Dorsata filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts Superior Court docket yesterday in opposition to healthcare expertise firm athenahealth and nationwide girls’s well being firm Unified Women’s Healthcare, alleging 11 counts in opposition to the suppliers, together with theft of commerce secrets and techniques, unjust enrichment, breach of contract and tortious interference with present prospects.
Dorsata gives a software designed to assist stop variations in medical care throughout maternity and reduce the speed of preventable issues utilizing point-of-care expertise and medical information.
Within the complaint, Dorsata claims that in 2021 Unified bought Ladies’s Well being USA, an current shopper of Dorsata. After the acquistion, athena approached Dorsata proposing the 2 entities work collectively to pursue a broader relationship with Unified by creating an built-in resolution to pitch to the corporate.
Based on Dorsata, after signing a non-disclosure settlement and amid discussions of athena’s potential acquisition of the EHR participant, Dorsata supplied commerce secrets and techniques to athena and oral agreements had been made to method Unified as a three way partnership.
Dorsata subsequently developed a software program product dubbed vU that it and athena would collectively pitch to Unified.
The Virginia-based girls’s well being EHR participant alleges athena in the meantime was creating its personal model of vU unbeknownst to Dorsata to pitch to Unified. It concurrently satisfied the EHR participant to signal a promissory word with an exclusivity clause, which means Dorsata was prevented from conducting enterprise with athena rivals.
Dorsata additionally wanted a money infusion for its enterprise, and athena supplied $6 million to the corporate, the phrases of which had been addressed within the promissory word.
Dorsata says Unified aided and abetted athena’s actions, and the 2 corporations reduce Dorsata out of the deal, leading to, amongst different incurrences, a problem for Dorsata to pay again its $6 million on account of athena by 2025.
The corporate additionally alleges athena is eliciting enter from Dorsata’s current prospects, requesting firm’s evaluate its uVA product to Dorsata’s and gaining suggestions on easy methods to improve its providing.
Dorsata introduced 9 causes of motion in opposition to athena, together with unfair and misleading acts and practices, breach of oral contract, breach of fiduciary responsibility, frequent legislation fraud, unjust enrichment, theft of commerce secrets and techniques, tortious interference with present prospects, breach of non-disclosure settlement and business disparagement.
The corporate introduced two counts in opposition to Unified, together with aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary responsibility and breach of contract.
Dorsata is looking for damages incurred from lack of anticipated income, worth of harm to repute, lack of firm valuation, worth of future misplaced enterprise and damages for unlawfully gained business/market benefit.
It is usually requesting the courtroom discover the promissory word was “a fraudulent artifice meant to stop Dorsata from competing within the market” and, subsequently, stop athena from looking for to gather the $6 million.
“We’ve been severely broken, and we hope the courtroom will rectify the scenario,” David Fairbrothers, cofounder and CEO of Dorsata, instructed MobiHealthNews in an e-mail,
In an e-mail to MobiHealthNews, athenahealth mentioned it does not touch upon pending litigation.
