Aaron Neiderhiser, Product Manager at Health Catalyst is pleased to introduce Touchstone, benchmarking software that turns average users into world-class data analysts. Using artificial intelligence to identify opportunities hidden within an organization's clinical, cost accounting, and claims data, Touchstone proactively identifies where it is performing well and recommends areas of underperformance across the full continuum of care to users.

1. The Next Generation in AI-powered Benchmarking
Introducing Health Catalyst®
Touchstone™

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What does your organization need in order to get better
at opportunity analysis and strategic planning?
Opening Question
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What is Touchstone™?
Touchstone (>200M Possible Patient Records)
Customer Enterprise Data Warehouses
Allina KUHA MultiCare Partners
External
Data
Sources
Benchmarks
Machine
Learning
Platform
Clinical
Decision
Support
(‘patients like
this’)
Third Party
Application
Ecosystem
Patient Portal
(‘patients like
me’)
Research
Initial Focus
…What else?
...etc.
● CAFE is now Touchstone
● Touchstone aggregates data from across health systems and payers to harness the massive
untapped value that can be delivered on top of a very large and detailed healthcare dataset
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Importance of Benchmarking
*Results from survey conducted by Health Catalyst in Nov 2016 with responses from >125 healthcare executives
• Benchmarks play a central role in the healthcare analytics
industry
• 88% of respondents report benchmarks as very or extremely
important to outcomes improvement prioritization process*
• Benchmarks 2nd most important factor in driving outcomes
improvement prioritization (after regulatory)*
(UHC)
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Poll Question #1
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Problems with Existing Benchmarking Products
Awkward user-interfaces
Users manually search
through hundreds of
benchmarks
Very difficult to understand ‘the
why’ behind an opportunity
Narrow focus areas (e.g.
Inpatient-only)
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Manual monthly or quarterly
data feeds

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Poll Question #2
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Touchstone’s Approach
Intuitive user-interface
Recommendation Engine
automatically surfaces
opportunities
Algorithms and user-interface automate
quick, iterative hypothesis testing
Datasets across the care
continuum (e.g. clinical,
claims, cost accounting,
patient satisfaction)
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Automated data feeds
(no human involvement)

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Modules and Datasets
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Touchstone
Inpatient
Population
Health
Regulatory
(coming soon)
Cost Insights
(coming soon)
Modules
Datasets
• Clinical (EMR)
• Cost
Accounting
• Claims • Claims
• Clinical (EMR)
• Clinical (EMR)
• CORUS
(Activity-based
Costing)

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Recommendations
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Prioritize
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Explore
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Patient-level Detail
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Risk Model Interpretability

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- Proprietary machine learning models
- e.g. Random Forest and Deep Neural Networks
- Feature Engineering
- Administrative (e.g. Elective, ER, Transfer)
- Clinical (e.g. DRGs, Elixhauser, HCC)
- Demographic (e.g. Gender, Age)
- Model output (i.e. expected values) routed back to your EDW for
consumption in any application
Risk-adjusted Benchmarks
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Data Volume:
• Patients: 125M
• Patient Visits: 641M
• Patient Facts: 307B
3rd Party Datasets:
• HCUP: 20% sample nationwide all-payer hospital visits
• Medicare Claims: 100% part A claims
• Utah APCD
Touchstone Data
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• Touchstone Public
• Touchstone Public is a limited edition version of the software running on
public datasets, available to all Health Catalyst clients
• Touchstone
• Full version of the software running on client data
Touchstone Public vs. Touchstone
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Two Main Focus Areas:
• 1H 2018: The What - Improve our Recommendation Engine
• 2H 2018: The Why – Improve quick, iterative hypothesis testing
Roadmap in 2018
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• Can Touchstone help your organization with benchmarking or
opportunity analysis?
• Have feedback?
• E-mail me: Aaron.Neiderhiser@healthcatalyst.com
Closing Comments
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Upcoming Webinar:
How to Achieve the Competencies of Successful Value-Based
Contracting Delivery Systems
Bobbi Brown, Senior Vice President, Professional Services, Health Catalyst and
Jonas Varnum, Population Health Management Consultant, Health Catalyst
Wednesday, March 14
1:00-2:00 PM EST
Join us at HIMSS March 5-9 in Las Vegas, NV - Booth 1332
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