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Critics say Epic’s noncompete agreements needlessly restrict former employees from earning a living and seriously retard the growth of health-information technology firms spurred by Epic’s extraordinary success.

RSS Print × Expand Dynae Allice Photography Cassy Smithies, former employee of Epic Systems. Cassy Smithies: ‘I would have absolutely loved to stay in healthcare.’ After graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2020, Cassy Smithies took a job at Epic Systems, joining thousands of other young brainiacs who work for the hugely successful medical software company in Verona. Her job, in a nutshell, was to make Epic software more intuitive and less head-scratching for patients and medical staff alike. 
 
 “The job had its good parts,” she says, including the interplay with h

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