News &amp; Insights

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 20, 2023 — firsthand, a value-based healthcare company focused on individuals struggling with serious mental illness (SMI), has selected Ursa Studio, the analytics development...

April 11, 2023 Sandy Bielawa

ViVE 2023 recap

Thanks to our friends at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, we were able to join other local innovators as part of the Friends of Project Healthcare Pavilion at ViVE 2023, held the last week of...

February 23, 2023 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Andria Muscatiello

What is your role, and what do you do? I am the senior director of customer success. Starting at Ursa, I jumped in as a technical customer success manager, or TCSM, so I've been playing that role and...

November 29, 2022 Ursa Health

Matter Health adopts Ursa Studio to advance value-based care

NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 29, 2022 — Matter Health, a value-based primary care provider group based in Nashville, has selected the analytics development platform from Ursa Health, the healthcare...

November 18, 2022 Ursa Health

Ursa Health announces support for ACO REACH

NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 18, 2022 — Ursa Health has introduced new capabilities to Ursa Studio, its ground-breaking healthcare analytics development platform, to help organizations meet the...

October 28, 2022 Ursa Health

Two new security milestones for Ursa Health

NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 28, 2022 — Ursa Health, a leading provider of data analytics software to the healthcare industry, today announced the Ursa Cloud (residing at Amazon Web Services and...

August 8, 2022 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Mike Siffermann

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? My title is senior director of client delivery. When I first talked with Ursa Health about a role here, we discussed what the best fit might be,...

July 15, 2022 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Dan Rosen

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I’m vice president of customer success, responsible for leading our technical customer success managers, technical services team, and...

July 7, 2022 Ryan O'Connell

Welcoming the Ursa Studio Knowledge Base

Company, Product

Ursa Health launched the Ursa Studio Knowledge Base this past May to provide users with a 24/7, self-service option for learning about the features and content in our analytics development platform....

June 27, 2022 Ursa Health

Valtruis enters strategic partnership with Ursa Health

NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Valtruis, a WCAS company, has entered a strategic partnership with Ursa Health, a healthcare data analytics company that brings a paradigm-breaking approach to how...

March 7, 2022 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Santhosh Raj

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I’m a principal healthcare data architect, which involves integrating, transforming, and modeling complex datasets to generate business insights...

December 22, 2021 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Katie Sylvester

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I’m a technical customer success manager, which means I help our clients utilize Ursa Studio, our analytics development platform, to its fullest...

November 12, 2021 Ursa Health

Ursa Health Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Assessment

NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 12, 2021—Ursa Health, the healthcare data analytics innovator, has successfully completed another System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 audit process. The SOC 2® Type II...

September 9, 2021 Ursa Health

Ursa Studio 5.0 transforms value-based partnerships with logic interoperability

Company, Product

NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 9, 2021—Ursa Health has released version 5.0 of Ursa Studio, its ground-breaking analytics development platform. Technical advancement of the platform to ease the process...

November 24, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

Meet the founders: Dr. Robin Clarke

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I am CEO and also a cofounder. Day to day, I lead the team from an organizational standpoint, focusing on operations, finance, business...

October 29, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

Carving out a great culture

Company

When I got my first work-from-home gig some years ago, I really wasn’t sure it was for me. How would I get to know my colleagues? What would I miss if I wasn’t in the office? Would my contributions...

October 16, 2020 Ursa Health

A new solution for participants in CMS's Primary Cares Initiative

NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 16, 2020—In response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announcement of its new Primary Cares Initiative, Ursa Health has released a version of Ursa Studio, its...

October 12, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

Physician-defined measurement reduces SNF readmissions

Ursa Health recently worked with an integrated delivery system to reduce readmissions from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The geriatrician charged with leading the effort had summary data from...

September 16, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Ryan O'Connell

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I serve as Ursa Health’s senior director of knowledge, which is a role that involves wearing several hats. Primarily, I am responsible for...

September 9, 2020 Ursa Health

Ursa Health takes a top spot in AHRQ challenge

Company

NASHVILLE, TENN., SEPTEMBER 9, 2020—Predictive analytics can drive healthcare performance improvement and program innovation by anticipating areas of need, helping organizations determine where to...

August 26, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

Meet the founders: Andy Hackbarth

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? My position is chief product officer. My primary responsibility is to oversee development of the software platform, to think strategically about...

June 10, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

A new look for Ursa Health

Company

We’re always busy here at Ursa Health, but over the last few months we’ve been engaged in a special project: reinventing Ursa Health's brand identity.

June 10, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

Meet the founders: Steve Hackbarth

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? As chief technology officer, I primarily manage development of our application, Ursa Studio, as well as the technical infrastructure surrounding...

March 27, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Caroline Sullivan

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I recently joined Ursa Health as chief administrative officer. In my role, I support Ursa Health's general operations and maintain the smooth...

March 16, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Rob Viola

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? As a senior manager of DevOps, my role is pretty diverse—I do a little bit of everything. Half my time is consulting with clients on things like...

February 27, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet John Toher

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I am director of technical services, which means I am a technical resource for clients during their implementation of the Ursa Health Platform....

February 24, 2020 Aaron Mock

Tired of long implementations? We were, too.

Too often, introducing a new data model and analytics platform to your organization requires a massive time and resource investment before a team is able to create anything of value. We’ve been there...

January 16, 2020 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Dr. Colin Beam

What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do? I’m responsible for advanced analytics at Ursa Health, which covers any method we use to discover information in the data, such as visualizations,...

December 23, 2019 Sandy Bielawa

The pain of real values

Early in my career, I was thinking of getting an MBA and attended an introductory lecture at Boston University. I don’t remember which professor gave it, but I’ve thought of his words often over the...

December 13, 2019 Sandy Bielawa

We are Ursa Health: meet Aaron Mock