Transforming Telehealth: Health Gorilla’s Role in Guard Dog’s Success Story
Guard Dog Telehealth is a nurse-founded, veteran-led organization focused on chronic condition management and preventive care.

Guard Dog Telehealth is a nurse-founded, veteran-led organization focused on chronic condition management and preventive care. After decades serving at the bedside level of care, co-founders Keli Heskett and Justine Hanna saw firsthand how fragmented healthcare systems left patients — including veterans — vulnerable to delays, misdiagnoses, and preventable hospitalizations. They turned to Health Gorilla to solve one of their most pressing challenges: on-demand access to comprehensive, interoperable patient records.