Touchstone

1. The Challenge

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2. Our Approach

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3. Benefits

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The Touchstone® application is a national repository of granular data from Health Catalyst clients and third-party data sources that enables benchmarking, advanced comparative analytics, and real-world evidence analysis. It provides a central environment to monitor and benchmark your organization’s performance against other healthcare systems—and delivers those benchmarks directly to your EDW so everything is in one place.

The Challenge

Health systems that have acquired ambulatory care practices—and independent ambulatory practices alike—face tremendous financial pressures and challenges to financial sustainability. If you’re an ambulatory care leader, you’re looking to improve the efficiency of the services you provide and find cost savings without negatively impacting patient outcomes, the community, or the integrity of the organization. Yet it can be difficult to access data that brings actionable insights to inform decisions to improve patient access, panel management, provider productivity, referral management, or quality scores.

Our Approach

The Touchstone® application is a national repository of granular data from Health Catalyst clients and third-party data sources that enables benchmarking, advanced comparative analytics, and real-world evidence analysis. It provides a central environment to monitor and benchmark your organization’s performance. Unlike traditional, siloed approaches to benchmarking and comparative analytics, Touchstone provides unprecedented access to healthcare data analytics—directly from your EDW. Gain benchmarking flexibility and access to real-world insights, all while consolidating vendors and reducing cost.

Benefits

  • Gain benchmarking flexibility. Integrate benchmarks across your entire enterprise analytics stack while benchmarking any measure with our custom benchmarking service.
  • Consolidate vendors and reduce cost. Touchstone benchmarking data products are offered as part of the technology subscription so you can eliminate the need for vendors.
  • Access real-world insights. Touchstone includes one of the largest national registries of confirmed COVID-19 patients anywhere in the world, including regulatory-grade national patient registries.
  • Access the latest data and eliminate manual work. This tool is maintained by Health Catalyst (i.e., data cleanup, extraction, ingestion) and updated more frequently than other data aggregation architectures.

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