MEDHOST, a leading EHR and healthcare IT solutions provider, has announced a partnership with Health Gorilla to improve its customers’ access to, exchange, and integration of comprehensive clinical data.
Health Gorilla, the nation’s only dual-designated Qualified Health Information Network™ (QHIN™) and Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO), offers secure and compliant access to various national networks and frameworks through a simple-to-implement API. Through this partnership, MEDHOST users will now have access to Carequality, CommonWell, and eHealth Exchange, as well as the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA℠) via the Health Gorilla QHIN and California’s Data Exchange Framework (DxF) via the Health Gorilla QHIO.
This partnership will provide MEDHOST facilities with access to the widest network of clinical data sources and an actionable view of their patients, enabling care teams to implement proactive and personalized treatment plans. To ensure a seamless onboarding experience with Health Gorilla, MEDHOST will connect to the networks above in a phased approach, starting with customer migrations, and later plans to offer options to participate in TEFCA.
As participants in Health Gorilla’s QHIN, MEDHOST customers can seamlessly exchange data with growing networks of organizations under TEFCA, take advantage of future federal and state incentives, and be among the first to query for new exchange purposes.
“We’ve always been committed to enhanced care coordination for our partner hospitals,” said Stephanie Sames, Executive Vice President of MEDHOST. “Our integration with Health Gorilla simplifies this process, benefiting both providers and patients.”
MEDHOST will use Health Gorilla’s Patient360, Master Patient Index (MPI), and Record Locator Service (RLS) to connect their users to national data exchange networks. This connection will improve the quality of their data and the insights they can gain from it. The initial connections will grant access to a network with over 220 million patients, 750 thousand clinicians, and more than 147 thousand care sites across the country.
“We’re excited to collaborate with MEDHOST and the vast network of critical access and community hospitals they’ve built over the past 40 years,” said Steve Yaskin, Co-founder and CEO of Health Gorilla. “MEDHOST’s commitment to joining TEFCA and other national networks will arm critical access and community providers with actionable data, enhancing their capacity to deliver optimal care. This is also a significant advancement toward achieving true nationwide interoperability.”
