Health Gorilla

Health Gorilla is one of the ten federally designated QHINs and also runs a consumer 'Patient Access' service that lets individuals pull their own records from national networks. In January 2026 Epic Systems and several affiliated healthcare providers sued Health Gorilla in federal court in California (C.D. Cal. No. 26-cv-00321). Epic alleges patient records were obtained through Health Gorilla's network connections for purposes other than treatment. Health Gorilla 'categorically reject[s]' the allegations. It says it suspended the connections in question, and it filed a motion to dismiss in February 2026 arguing Epic skipped the networks' required dispute processes. One connected company, GuardDog Telehealth, stipulated to a consent judgment with Epic in March 2026. Health Gorilla says that judgment has no legal effect on it and that GuardDog always represented its queries as treatment. These are unproven allegations in contested litigation. For consumers, the case shows that records on national networks can be requested by companies claiming a treatment purpose, and patients have little visibility into who asked.

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• Last verified2026-10-15

Case status. Private litigation; the legal tier of its sources has not been assigned yet.

Primary source. www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-gorilla-releases-statement-in-response-to-epic-lawsuit-302670823.html — Unverified - heuristic first draft.

Arbitration

None found. The Patient Access User Agreement is governed by California law. Website claims are governed by Delaware law.

Data sharing

QHIN routing records between payers, providers, EHR vendors, digital-health firms, labs and life insurers (its listed customer types include life insurers). Patient Access notice: identifiable data is used for record retrieval, operations including fraud detection, and product development including analytics, and is shared externally for the same purposes. Data persists after deactivation until deletion is requested. The website privacy policy says it has not sold personal information in the preceding 12 months.

Contacts

Privacy contact. support@healthgorilla.com; (844) 446-7455

Legal notice. Health Gorilla, Inc., Attn: Associate General Counsel, 121 Alhambra Plaza Suite 1000, Coral Gables, FL 33134 (per privacy policy)

Mailing address. Not recorded.