Defendant GuardDog Telehealth Admits to Providing Patient Records to Law Firms

Today, GuardDog Telehealth, Epic, and healthcare provider co-plaintiffs filed a stipulated judgment. If entered by the court, judgment will be entered against GuardDog on the claims asserted by plaintiffs. GuardDog admitted that while “its goal was to provide chronic care management and remote patient monitoring for patients,” that “did not happen.” “For the duration of its existence, its business instead focused on requesting, reviewing, and summarizing medical records, and providing those medical records to law firms.” GuardDog obtained these records “by asserting a treatment purpose” through Carequality, the interoperability framework hospitals rely on to share records for patient care.

Under the terms of the stipulated judgment, GuardDog would be permanently barred from “requesting records using the TEFCA or Carequality interoperability frameworks,” required to “delete any patient health information or records obtained from the TEFCA or Carequality frameworks within one week,” and barred from “any further use or dissemination of any patient health information or records” it obtained.

You can find a copy of the publicly filed Stipulation Re: Judgment and Permanent Injunction here.

The case continues against Health Gorilla and the remaining defendants.