Touchstone Match

The Health Catalyst Touchstone Match™ suite puts a new source of diverse, research-grade clinical data at your fingertips. Touchstone Match includes:

• Touchstone^®: Transforms existing data from a network of healthcare systems into high-quality, research-grade data to support clinical research, biopharmaceutical, and contract research organization (CRO) use cases.
• Health Catalyst Pop Analyzer™: Takes data from Touchstone and other sources and enables quick, transparent development of patient cohorts for clinical studies and real-world data.

Additional add-on services and products include:

• Twistle^® Patient Engagement by Health Catalyst: Increases clinical trial recruitment effectiveness (integration with Touchstone Match coming soon).
• Health Catalyst Research Network™ (HCRN): Facilitates connections and collaborations between healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and CROs through a carefully curated, national data ecosystem for thought leadership and mutual knowledge exchange.
• AI™ Expert Services: Access a team of data science experts who can guide the effective use of augmented intelligence (AI) in research use cases. Data scientists and subject matter experts (SMEs) can also support query review, consult on underlying data, and complete feasibility assessments.

Using the data from Touchstone, quickly develop patient cohorts for clinical studies based on research-grade data.

The problem

Pharmaceutical companies and CROs seek to expedite research timelines and patient engagement—but face several barriers to success:

• Lack of diverse and representative patient data that capture more of the patient's journey—they need a new source of data, outside of the traditional academic medical center (AMC) data available to the industry.
• Ongoing issues with accurate site feasibility counts and budgeting—sites often guess the number of patients who may be eligible for a trial.
• A slow recruitment process for clinical trials—CROs often reach out to a patient seven or more times before they reach the patient to discuss the clinical trial.

Combining the right mix of technology, expertise, and data can drive increased clinical trial participation and better patient outcomes.

Our approach

Health Catalyst Touchstone Match is an AI-powered, real-world data solution that puts a new source of diverse, research-grade clinical data at your fingertips, improving decision-making and accelerating the success of the clinical research lifecycle. Within moments, you can develop a highly curated list of patients.

As a trusted partner of health systems, Health Catalyst facilitates secure, broad, and continuous access to data sources. We collaborate interactively to find and curate unique, tailored, or missing data to identify the right patient at the right time.

Benefits and features

• Identify more diverse patients through a new source of research-grade data. The patient-level data in Touchstone Match includes data from 30% of US healthcare organizations and goes far beyond traditional AMC sources to include healthcare organizations and community hospitals. This greater diversity of sources enables better representation in clinical research and trials, leading to better health equity and patient outcomes.
• Find more qualified patients with deeper, AI-driven insights into patient cohorts. Touchstone Match provides patient-level views, longitudinal data, and novel insights paired with advanced AI capabilities, resulting in rare and unstructured insights.
• Faster time to value for research activities. Touchstone Match is one solution for feasibility research, real-world data, and trial startup for research-naïve sites.
• Easy, self-service, downloadable analytics at the patient level. Pop Analyzer, our market-leading query and analytics tool, gives you iterative data access to rapidly tailor your analytics to fit your needs. With no SQL or other database experience, you can identify and download a curated list of patients in seconds.
• Flexible, interactive, health-system-based approach. Collaborative healthcare system relationships enable us to find and curate data based on unique needs.
• Range of additional products and services to improve outcomes. Establish new industry connections (HCRN), tap into a team of data scientists and SMEs (Healthcare.AI Expert Services), and engage and recruit patients (Twistle Patient Engagement—integration with Touchstone coming soon).

Use cases

• A biopharma company is starting a clinical trial for a new hemophilia medication but is struggling to find patients for the study. Health Catalyst experts use Touchstone Match to perform a feasibility assessment and determine that they need to extend the search beyond the immediate area to find enough trial participants. They run analytics on patients within a network of healthcare systems. The pharmaceutical company engages healthcare systems throughout the region to participate in the trial.
• A feasibility lead inputs inclusion and exclusion criteria into Touchstone Match to quickly generate a list of patients appropriate for a study. The lead exports the list and provides them to the feasibility and patient education teams to begin outreach.