Epic Systems, the company behind the largest electronic health records system in medicine, is suing health information network Health Gorilla and several of Health Gorilla’s clients over improperly accessing nearly 300,000 patient records managed by Epic.
Epic’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in a federal court in California, alleges fraud and breach of contract by Health Gorilla’s customers who requested and accessed the health records under the guise of being health care providers, and then using the records for financial gain instead of providing treatment.
Epic, the dominant player in the U.S. health records market, has long battled accusations that it doesn’t share the health records it manages with others easily. The new lawsuit comes as Epic is embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by Particle Health, which claims that Epic used its market dominance to illegally block access to health records.
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