According to a Cap Times report, six thousand Wisconsin patient records were fraudulently accessed and sold by the health information network, Health Gorilla.
Epic and four other health groups filed a lawsuit on Jan. 13 with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging that Health Gorilla allowed companies that Epic called “organized syndicates” to access and market nearly 300,000 patient records for those whose medical data is stored by Epic.
Epic also said this happens without patient knowledge or permission.
“At stake are both the protection of medical records that contain some of a person’s most sensitive data, such as genetic, mental wellbeing and reproductive information, and the ability of physicians to keep their promises to patients that their information will be kept private,” the lawsuit reads.
