MEDHOST Joins Health Gorilla’s Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN™) to Enhance Access to Clinical Data and Participate in TEFCA℠
24 Julio 2024 - 10:00AM
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 ensure that MEDHOST facilities have 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’s services, 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 will enable
its customers to seamlessly exchange data with a growing network 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 greatly
simplifies this process, benefiting both providers and patients.
This partnership is a significant step forward in our mission to
provide comprehensive, real-time data access and improve patient
outcomes across the board.”
MEDHOST will leverage Health Gorilla’s Patient360, Master
Patient Index (MPI), and Record Locator Service (RLS) services to
not only connect 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 Gorilla
Health 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. For more information, visit healthgorilla.com or follow
us on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter) @HealthGorilla.
About MEDHOST
MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare
facilities of all types and sizes for over 40 years. Today
healthcare facilities nationwide are partnering with MEDHOST and
enhancing their patient care and operational excellence with its
clinical and financial solutions, which include an integrated EHR
solution. Connect with MEDHOST on X (formerly Twitter)
@MEDHOSTinc, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Ryan Kelly
Health Gorilla
707-332-4979
rkelly@healthgorilla.com