Medblocks vs Health Gorilla
How Medblocks compares to Health Gorilla and the treatment-use network platforms, across reach, fidelity, and pricing.
Health Gorilla reaches records across organizations through the national networks, as a designated TEFCA QHIN. It sits in the treatment-use network circle of the healthcare integration landscape, alongside CommonWell, Particle Health, Zus Health, and Metriport.
Quick verdict
Choose a network platform if treatment-use network access is the core need, or if you need real-time ADT event feeds, which Medblocks does not offer yet. As a QHIN with reach across CommonWell and Carequality, Health Gorilla is strong at pulling a longitudinal record under a treatment relationship. If document-level network data is enough, these platforms do that well.
Choose Medblocks if you need more than the network. You get treatment-use HIE alongside patient access, clinician workflow, and backend, paired with higher-fidelity direct EHR integration, on your own credentials. The data arrives deduplicated and normalized into queryable models, not network-grade documents you parse yourself.
Side by side
| Medblocks | Health Gorilla | CommonWell | Particle Health | Zus Health | Metriport | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient access ? | ✓ | ~1 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~2 |
| Your branding ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Brokered org access ? | ✗3 | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wearable & mobile ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| SMART EHR embed ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ |
| CDS Hooks ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EHR backend ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FHIR bulk ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| HL7v2 interfacing ? | ~4 | ~5 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Treatment-use HIE ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Patient deduplication ? | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Clinical data models ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ | ~6 |
| Export to FHIR CDR ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ~7 |
| Export to warehouse ? | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model ? | Flat subscription | Per query | Annual membership | Per query | Per patient | OSS / Custom |
| Pricing ? | $60,000/year | Undisclosed | $25,000/year + $10k setup8 | starts at $60,000/year9 | Undisclosed | Undisclosed10 |
✓ native · ~ partial · ✗ not supported
- Health Gorilla patient access: TEFCA Individual Access Services only, with data quality still poor today. Even after identity proofing through ID.me or CLEAR, patients with records in major EHRs like Epic must sign in to the EHR directly anyway.
- Metriport patient access: TEFCA Individual Access Services only, with the same limitations as Health Gorilla: identity proofing, and patients with records in major EHRs may still have to sign in directly.
- Medblocks brokered access: we provide extensive written guidance and one-to-one support on contracting with an organization and getting your own credentials installed. We don't do it on your behalf with our credentials.
- Medblocks HL7v2 interfacing: supported over HTTP with SMART Backend authentication, which major EHRs like Epic support natively.
- Health Gorilla HL7v2 interfacing: limited to ADT and lab-result feeds from hospitals and labs already in its network. You cannot connect a new feed to a source of your choosing.
- Metriport clinical data models: limited to a fixed set of analytics tables, not user-defined models.
- Export to FHIR CDR (b.well, Flexpa, Fasten Connect, Metriport): they expose FHIR APIs to read the data, but you build the pipeline to push it into your own FHIR server.
- CommonWell pricing: scales with your revenue. The figure shown is the Service Adopter tier for organizations under $5M/year in revenue: $25,000 per year for all available use cases, plus a one-time $10,000 implementation fee.
- Particle Health pricing: the $1-per-query rate is publicly documented. The roughly $60,000/year usage minimum is an estimate from multiple public sources and industry interviews.
- Metriport pricing: the open-source version is free to self-host, but you procure CommonWell and Carequality access yourself, roughly $60,000/year in network subscriptions. Enterprise pricing is undisclosed.
See the full capability matrix for every row and the sources behind each rating.
What the network platforms do well
They are strong at network exchange. Under a treatment relationship, they reach a patient’s records across the organizations on the national networks, far more than you would connect to one by one. For a longitudinal record pulled through TEFCA, CommonWell, or Carequality, that breadth is real.
Each has its own emphasis. Health Gorilla and CommonWell are QHINs with broad network reach, Particle and Metriport wrap that access in a developer API, and Zus layers a curated patient record and EHR-embedded components on top.
They also run real-time ADT feeds. If you need to know the moment a patient is admitted, discharged, or transferred, these feeds surface it across organizations, which a direct EHR integration cannot, since it only sees events inside the organizations you connect to. Medblocks does not offer notification networks like this yet.
Where Medblocks goes further
The networks are one surface, and a network-only tool stops there. Access usually requires a treatment relationship, so patient-mediated, clinician-workflow, and direct backend surfaces are out of reach. Medblocks treats the network as one surface among several and adds the others.
Fidelity is the second gap. Network data arrives as documents, often lower fidelity than a direct EHR integration, and reconciling it is left to you. Medblocks pairs the network with direct integration where you need higher-fidelity data, then deduplicates and normalizes every source into queryable models.
Pricing
Network pricing ranges widely: CommonWell is about $25,000 per year for the under-$5M tier plus a one-time setup fee, Particle runs roughly $60,000 per year plus per-query fees, and Health Gorilla does not publish rates. Medblocks is a flat $60,000 per year that also covers the other surfaces and the data layer, and includes CommonWell and Carequality access on your own credentials, not the network alone.
Using them together
The network is a surface Medblocks already connects to, on your own CommonWell credentials and included in the platform fee, so for most teams there is nothing extra to buy. Once an organization has sent its documents back to the network, Medblocks can pull those records from anywhere. If you already hold a separate network contract, you can keep pulling through it and feed that data into Medblocks, where it is deduplicated and normalized alongside your other sources into one record.
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