Six thousand patient records from people living in Wisconsin are among a trove of medical files Verona-based health tech giant Epic Systems says were fraudulently accessed and sold by a group of health information companies.
Epic, along with four other health groups, filed a lawsuit Jan. 13 with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in which they allege a health information network, 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. This is happening without patient knowledge or permission, the lawsuit says.
The 90-page complaint did not identify the affected patients or their specific providers…