Telehealth company admits to sharing medical records with law firms as Epic’s lawsuit heats up

Epic campus sculpture art. Photo by Dave Fornell

Sculpture art at the campus of Epic Systems. Photo by Dave Fornell.

GuardDog admitted to accessing medical histories from patients stored on Epic’s platform, selling some of them to law firms engaged in unrelated civil litigation. The primary defendant in Epic’s lawsuit, Health Gorilla, maintains it did nothing wrong and accuses Epic of stifling interoperability.