How Health Gorilla is advancing interoperability as a TEFCA QHIN

The healthcare industry continues to make slow but fixed progress towards the goal that it has long passed through the ability to operate, but much of this progress was not equal. For example, small hospitals fall behind their large counterparts in the ability to operate, as well as independent hospitals against the regime companies, as well as rural hospitals compared to urban and suburban hospitals.
Qualified health information networks, or Qhins, are networks of networks – stood under federalism A reliable exchange framework and a joint agreementTEFCA – Healthcare institutions join the participation of information with other healthcare entities. They appear as a major method of progress in inter -operational ability.
Constant data challenge solution
Pob Watson, CEO of Heelf Gorilla, said that at a very high level, Qhins is designed to solve the constant challenge of fragmented health data. It is, along with many other organizations, Qhin.
“For a very long time, the patient’s information was widespread through various systems, which hinders the coordination of care and increased administrative burdens,” he explained. “This deficiency in the inter -employment has led to inefficiency, potential errors, and the patient’s experience is less than perfect.
“Qhins works by creating a secure and unified framework to exchange health information,” and continued. “They work as a reliable medium, linking various health information networks and enabling the smooth flow of data between them. This allows a network of networks where adopted entities can safely access the patient’s information for purposes such as treatment, payment and public health.”
Within the architecture in force in TEFCA, Qhins are the slopes that all participants must use to participate in exchanging health care data at the country level. Similar to the national networks in force and quality -based framework, participants can contact the TEFCA frame directly through QHIN or as a sub -participant for another participant.
Additional data exchange purposes
TEFCA itself is designed and implemented to expand healthy information exchanging more than the purpose of exchange exchange. As TEFCA progresses forward, there will be a gradual use of additional exchange purposes including individual access services (IAS), public health exchange, health care, payment, defining general advantages and possible research.
“The process of becoming Qhin includes meeting strict requirements set by the federal government and showing the ability to exchange health information safely and reliable,” Watson explained. It includes a strict application and review process, which guarantees only approval of qualified institutions with strong technical and security capabilities.
“We are proud to be among the first organizations that were approved on board as the QHIN request submitted, which talks about our commitment to the safety of data and the interview of inter -employment,” he added.
Health Gorilla depends on a safe infrastructure based on a group of crescents to run its network. This infrastructure is closely and closely monitored, and is dynamic to accommodate the high traffic it sees daily.
FHIR and HL7 pay a hand
“In addition, we offer an inter -operating layer that offers a wide range of application programming facades to the outside world,” Watson explained. “This FHIR is supported – generally how our participants interact with us – and HL7 V3 XCA – in general how Qhins interact with each other. These applications programming facades are secured by using a strong authentication and license to protect the sensitive electronic information that is exchanged.
“The interior of our platform, we built the main record record and the patient’s record to increase our ability to find the appropriate patient information and reduce the opportunity to find the wrong patient data.” “We also have data, processing, processing and storage capabilities that allow our system to manage millions of queries across thousands of sources and processing all the information that has been recovered in comprehensive summaries centered on patients about individual patients.”
So, what does someone do in the hospital that begins a call to this QHIN to collect data, and how does the data come back to them? Watson satire.
“Let’s divide how the data request may work in a model hospital environment,” he said. “Imagine that the patient has just arrived at the hospital’s emergency department. First, the hospital’s electronic health registry starts to obtain the patient’s records on behalf of the provider. This request is often operated when the patient is registered for the first time in the hospital.
“EHR, the hospital seller in this scenario, then uses safe API calls to communicate with our QHIN platform.” “These application programming facades are unified, ensuring properly and safe order coordination.”
Communicate with other Qhins
After that, the Qhin platform receives this request. He checks the application’s delegation, then sends the request to each QHIN connected, with his MPI review to see if this patient has data with any of the QHIN participants in Gorilla’s health.
This connected qhins achieve whether the participants keep data about the patient concerned, and if they do so, they provide gorilla with any available information.
Watson noted that “we usually recall all available information within minutes or even seconds to provide an overview of the most comprehensive patient.” “Once we collect all the necessary information, we assemble it in a safe, unified and sufficient format.
“Finally, we send this uniform data back to the EHR original hospital system via safe application programming facades.” “Service providers can then access the full patient’s record within the familiar EHR interface, allowing them to provide the best possible care. In short, it is a safe flow from EHR in the hospital, through our QHIN platform, to other TEFCA participation organizations, and return again.”
Confident indicators
Gorilla Health received the name QHIN in December 2023 and went directly in the first quarter of 2024. While it is still in the early stages of QHIN operations, the Health Gorilla already sees some encouraging indicators.
“Since it happened directly, we have seen a growth in the volume of inquiries by more than 21 % per month, as it grows from about 200,000 to more than 66 million in March 2025,” Watson said. “One of the main measures we follow is the number of successful data exchanges that have been facilitated through our basic system. We are witnessing a steady increase in these exchanges, which indicates increasing communication and confidence within our network.
“There is another important procedure, which is the low time that health care providers takes to access the patient’s information.” “Historically, this process may take hours or even days, including phone calls, intercourse and manual data. With our Qhin, we are witnessing a significant decrease at this time, and the retrieval often descends into minutes, or even seconds. This translates directly into the fastest decision and improve patient care.”
It is also important to note that healthy gorilla sees concrete results in terms of customer notes.
Watson concluded that “customers report significant discounts in manual work burdens, less errors related to lost data, and improve automation to retrieve data.” “This anecdotal evidence, along with the quantitative measures we follow, draws a clear picture of the positive impact of our Qhin to solve the challenge of the inter -operation.”
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