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Building Healthcare Technology with Healthcare Leaders: The Gallion Health and Yale New Haven Health Partnership

By August 26th, 2026No Comments

How Gallion Health and Yale New Haven Health are collaborating to shape the future of bill-only and supply chain innovation.

Building the Future of Healthcare Technology Together

Healthcare technology has no shortage of ambitious promises. Every year, new platforms claim they can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and simplify operations.

But the reality is that meaningful innovation in healthcare requires more than great technology. It requires a deep understanding of the complex workflows, constraints, and decisions that healthcare teams navigate every day.

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Yale New Haven Health has joined Gallion Health as both a development partner and investor.

Why Yale New Haven Health Chose Gallion as their Bill-Only Solution

Yale New Haven Health selected Gallion because of our focused approach to solving one of healthcare’s most complex operational challenges: bill-only management. While many solutions address only portions of the workflow, Gallion provides a true end-to-end platform that connects vendors, perioperative teams, supply chain, finance, and ERP and electronic health record (EHR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems within a single, integrated experience. Gallion digitizes and standardizes bill-only processes from bill sheet creation through requisition generation and purchase order and invoice reconciliation, eliminating manual handoffs, reducing errors, and improving transparency across every stakeholder group.

What differentiates Gallion is its ability to validate bill-only activity in real time through integrations with both the EHR and ERP systems. This enables bill sheets to be created and validated by the end of a procedure, supports automated reconciliation, and helps ensure contracted pricing and purchasing compliance before a requisition is generated. Rather than identifying issues weeks later during invoice reconciliation, Gallion helps organizations resolve discrepancies at the source.

Gallion also provides unmatched visibility into bill-only operations. Every transaction is fully auditable, allowing health systems to trace an item from bill sheet to purchase order to paid invoice. Combined with robust operational, financial, and clinical analytics, organizations gain the insights needed to improve efficiency, strengthen vendor management, monitor contract compliance, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Additionally, Gallion’s benchmarking capabilities leverage pricing and utilization data across peer organizations to help health systems make more informed purchasing decisions.

Perhaps most importantly, Gallion was built by healthcare professionals who experienced these challenges firsthand. Developed within a large health system and informed by years of operational and clinical expertise, the platform was designed around the real-world workflows of health systems rather than forcing teams to adapt to generic software. Yale New Haven Health recognized not only the value Gallion delivers today, but also the opportunity to help shape the future of bill-only and healthcare supply chain innovation through this development partnership.

Why This Partnership Matters

Healthcare supply chain and financial operations are among the most challenging areas to modernize. Many processes remain highly manual, fragmented across systems, and dependent on significant administrative effort.

Bill-only sits at the intersection of many of healthcare’s most persistent operational and financial challenges.

Addressing these challenges effectively requires more than software development conducted in isolation. It requires close collaboration with the people responsible for managing supply chain operations, financial performance, and clinical support every day.

Through this partnership, Gallion Health’s engineering, product, and data science teams will work directly alongside Yale New Haven Health’s leaders across supply chain, operations, and finance.

Together, we’re creating a development process grounded in real-world challenges, practical feedback, and measurable outcomes.

A New Model for Healthcare Innovation

Too often, healthcare technology is developed based on assumptions about how processes work.

We believe there’s a better approach.

The most impactful solutions emerge when healthcare organizations are active participants in product design, development, and testing.

As a development partner, Yale New Haven Health will help us:

  • Validate new ideas and capabilities
  • Refine workflows based on operational realities
  • Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency
  • Shape product priorities that deliver tangible value
  • Accelerate adoption through practical, user-centered design

This level of collaboration helps ensure that every enhancement is aligned with the needs of health systems and the teams who use these tools every day.

The Role of AI in Healthcare Operations

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to generate significant interest across healthcare. While much attention focuses on clinical applications, we believe some of the greatest opportunities exist within operational and administrative workflows.

By combining Gallion Health’s technology expertise with Yale New Haven Health’s operational leadership, we’ll explore AI-enabled capabilities that can help organizations:

  • Reduce manual data entry and reconciliation work
  • Improve visibility into supply chain activity
  • Identify operational inefficiencies
  • Support faster and more informed decision-making
  • Streamline complex financial workflows

The goal isn’t simply to introduce AI. The goal is to apply AI where it can create meaningful operational improvements and measurable business value.

The Beginning of Something Bigger

This partnership represents more than a milestone for Gallion Health.

It reflects our belief that the future of healthcare technology will be built through close collaboration between innovators and healthcare providers.

By bringing together product teams, data scientists, supply chain professionals, and finance leaders, we can create solutions that address real challenges and drive meaningful impact across health systems.

We’re proud to welcome Yale New Haven Health to our product development journey and excited about what we’ll build together.

Transformative healthcare solutions emerge from deep collaboration between technology innovators and healthcare leaders.

Learn more about the partnership in the full announcement: https://www.pr.com/press-release/976766

Sam McDougall

Director of Commercial Operations & Product Manager