What is HealthKey?
HealthKey is an AI-powered patient identification platform for clinical trial sites. It connects to electronic health record systems such as Epic and Athena, prescreens patients against each trial's eligibility criteria, and presents matches with supporting evidence from the chart. It is HIPAA-focused and charges success fees per patient rather than upfront costs.
Enrollment is one of the slowest parts of a clinical trial, and coordinators often review charts by hand to find eligible patients. HealthKey encodes the protocol's criteria and runs them across the site's EHR records automatically, surfacing qualified candidates along with the evidence behind each match. Setup takes about a week, and because the site pays per patient identified, it avoids the large license fees common in research software.
Main Features
- Integrates with EHR systems including Epic, Athena, Veradigm and Allscripts.
- Encodes trial eligibility criteria and prescreens patient records with AI.
- Shows each qualified candidate with supporting evidence from the medical record.
- Processes thousands of records in minutes to reduce manual chart review.
- Supports FHIR standards and follows a HIPAA-compliant, security-first approach.
- Delivers matched patients into a dashboard within days of setup.
How to Get Started with HealthKey
- Contact HealthKey through gethealthkey.com to set up your research site.
- Connect your EHR system and share the protocols you want to recruit for.
- Complete setup, which HealthKey says takes about a week.
- Review qualified patients and their supporting evidence in the dashboard, then begin outreach.
HealthKey Pricing
HealthKey charges success fees per patient with no upfront cost. A promotion running through July 31, 2026 waived implementation, protocol setup for five trials and premium support for new sites.
Who Should Use It?
- Clinical research coordinators prescreening patients
- Research sites trying to speed trial enrollment
- Principal investigators reducing screen failures
- Health systems running multiple trials on Epic or Athena
HealthKey Alternatives
- Medeloop AI: links and analyzes large health datasets for research
- Hippocratic AI: safety-focused generative AI for patient-facing tasks
- Lunit AI: AI for cancer detection in imaging rather than recruitment
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does HealthKey cost?
HealthKey uses success-based pricing: sites pay a fee per patient identified, with no upfront license. It has run promotions that waive implementation and protocol setup costs for a limited number of new sites each quarter.
Which EHR systems does HealthKey support?
It lists Epic, Athena, Veradigm and Allscripts among more than a dozen supported EHR systems, and it supports FHIR standards for data exchange, so most research sites can connect without replacing their records system.
Is HealthKey HIPAA compliant?
HealthKey describes a security-first, HIPAA-compliant approach to handling patient data. Sites should still review its business associate terms with their compliance team before connecting records.