Seasoned healthcare and tech leaders join pioneering QHIN to drive nationwide interoperabilityCORAL GABLES, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Gorilla, the nation's most complete healthcare data network, announced today that it has appointed a distinguished group of healthcare industry veterans to its executive leadership team.This group of proven leaders brings decades of experience across healthcare, technology, and high-growth startups, positioning the company to lead the next era of healthcare interoperability as a pioneering Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN).Since being appointed Executive Chairperson and CEO in November 2024, Bob Watson has prioritized assembling a powerhouse team to guide Health Gorilla through its next phase of growth."The first and most important priority was to find the right team — leaders with a deep understanding of healthcare, strong technical acumen, and the proven ability to scale," said Bob Watson, Executive Chairperson and CEO, Health Gorilla. "We've united experts from every corner of the ecosystem to build a QHIN that isn't just compliant, but transformative. With this team, Health Gorilla is poised to lead the interoperability movement."The company's newly appointed executive leadership team includes:Together, this team will lead Health Gorilla's charge as the QHIN partner of choice for electronic health record providers, while also enabling value-based care organizations and other innovators to power data-driven healthcare workflows—expanding its market presence and scaling its delivery of artificial-intelligence-ready, workflow-relevant health data.As a provider integrated into all five major healthcare subnetworks and one of the first designated QHINs, Health Gorilla is transforming how health data is exchanged at scale with its artificial-intelligence-ready, workflow-relevant data. The company connects over 220 million patients, 750,000 clinicians, and 147,000 care sites through its unified platform that solves the data fragmentation problem at scale.With strategic governance woven into its DNA and major investments into regulatory compliance and trust frameworks, Health Gorilla simplifies participation in complex health data exchange networks — becoming the "Easy Button" for organizations.About Health GorillaHealth Gorilla is a secure health data-sharing platform, designated as both a national Qualified Health Information Network™ and a California state Qualified Health Information Organization, powering national and regional health information exchange while protecting patient data privacy and security. Health Gorilla is uniquely positioned to enable organizations to seamlessly participate in both TEFCA℠ and the California Data Exchange Framework. Health Gorilla provides real-time access to the broadest possible network of healthcare data sources in the US, making it easy for authorized users to get the most complete view of a patient's relevant health information

In 2023, Amwell partnered with Health Gorilla to offer a new lab feature in its virtual care offering, Converge.

FRANKLIN, TN / ACCESSWIRE / July 24, 2024 / MEDHOST, a leading EHR and healthcare IT solutions provider, has announced a partnership with Health Gorilla to enhance its customers' ability to access, exchange, and integrate comprehensive clinical data.Health Gorilla, the nation's only dual-designated Qualified Health Information Network™ (QHIN™) and Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO), provides secure and compliant access to various national networks and frameworks through a simple-to-implement API. With 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 give MEDHOST facilities access to the broadest network of clinical data sources and an actionable view of their patients, allowing care teams to implement proactive and personalized treatment plans.To ensure its customers have a seamless onboarding experience with Health Gorilla, MEDHOST will connect to the networks above in a phased approach beginning with customer migrations and later plans to offer options to participate in TEFCA.As a participant of Health Gorilla's QHIN, MEDHOST customers can seamlessly exchange data with growing networks of organizations under the 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 leverage Health Gorilla's Patient360, Master Patient Index (MPI) and Record Locator Service (RLS) services to not only connect their users to the existing national data exchange networks, but also enhance the quality of their data and the insights they can derive from it. The first series of connections will provide access to a network encompassing over 220 million patients, 750 thousand clinicians, and over 147 thousand care sites nationwide."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."About Health GorillaHealth Gorilla provides a secure health data-sharing network and platform, designated as both a national Qualified Health Information Network and a California state Qualified Health Information Organization, powering national and regional health information exchange while protecting patient data privacy and security