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Dog bites gorilla: Telehealth company admits to patient data scheme

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The lawsuit alleges that nearly 300,000 patient records were accessed.

A telehealth company has admitted to falsely representing itself as a healthcare provider to obtain information from electronic health records (EHR) to pass on to law firms, according to a lawsuit brought by Epic Systems and other healthcare provider plaintiffs.

The admission by GuardDog Telehealth was made as part of