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April 20, 2023 Ursa Health
firsthand adopts Ursa Studio to support individuals with serious mental illness
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...
March 20, 2023 Tyler Johnson
HIStalk: 4 ways specialty care providers can prepare for claims data
"Companies that are bringing new specialty care models to market face a big early hurdle when partnering with plans, full-risk provider groups, or self-insured employers: working with claims data....
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...
September 23, 2022 Colin Beam, PhD
Do predictive analytics work in healthcare?
Artificial intelligence has been touted as a healthcare analytics cure-all that will impose order on massive data streams, extract essential insights, and generate predictions with pinpoint accuracy....
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...
June 16, 2022 Colin Beam, PhD
NEJM Catalyst: analysis of healthcare disparities for health insurer
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 16, 2022 — Ursa Health’s analytics development platform, Ursa Studio, enabled an analysis of healthcare inequities in utilization and spending published on June 2 in NEJM...
March 21, 2022 Colin Beam, PhD
Making sense of advanced analytics terminology
For years, we’ve been reading headlines touting the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, such as deep learning, to transform big data into actionable insights. Sounds...
January 18, 2022 Andy Hackbarth
Hierarchical data models: a modern approach to organizing EDW data
An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is the beating heart of a healthcare organization’s analytic capabilities. Successful EDWs can provide hugely valuable insights. Unsuccessful EDWs become black...
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 3, 2021 Andy Hackbarth
Patient attribution 101: tips for setting up a dynamic model
Many healthcare analyses involve the concept of “patient attribution”—in other words, linking a patient to the provider responsible for their care. For example, you might want to know which primary...
August 16, 2021 Andy Hackbarth and Steve Hackbarth
Report: 2021 Database Benchmark for Healthcare Analytics
New cloud-based database management systems (DBMSs) are powerful and scalable, but it’s hard to know which technology will best serve your organization’s needs under realistic data processing...
July 19, 2021 Ursa Health
A healthcare data analytics manifesto
Healthcare organizations have access to unprecedented levels of data and processing power, and urgent and complex questions to answer. But despite the industry’s enormous investments in data and...
June 9, 2021 Andy Hackbarth
How to track patient features over time for pop health analytics
In improvement work, tracking performance over time is a core idea. However, it’s often quite hard, technically, to work with “dynamic” data — data that reflects the changing state of the world over...
May 25, 2021 Sandy Bielawa
Turning data into innovation: Robin Clarke joins the Virsys12 podcast
Virsys12 offers products and services to help transform the business of healthcare. This week, in the company's podcast series "How I Transformed This," Ursa Health's CEO Dr. Robin Clarke sat down...
May 10, 2021 Sandy Bielawa
The state of advanced analytics in healthcare: panel summary
The healthcare industry is on the cusp of a data and analytics golden age. We are moving steadily from a volume-based system to one that seeks to answer the overarching question, “Are we delivering...
April 19, 2021 Colin Beam, PhD
Why causality is central to questions of algorithmic bias
Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on algorithms to guide decisions regarding patient care. If bias exists in the algorithms, organizations run the risk of treating patients unfairly....
April 15, 2021 Steve Hackbarth
The specter of failure and the specter of success
The disastrous launch It’s been a warm winter, but the palm trees are nonetheless shrink-wrapped up and down Atlantic Avenue. Virginia is not their native environment, and their winter discomfort is...
March 2, 2021 Ryan O'Connell
Making the most of run charts for healthcare performance improvement
The run chart is a classic tool of quality improvement work. Depicted as a line graph, it provides insight into changes in a specific performance measure over time. The chart's x axis presents...
January 7, 2021 Naveen Raja, DO, and Colin Beam, PhD
UCLA Health: overcoming racial bias in predictive algorithms
Algorithmic bias—what it is, who it impacts, what it causes, and how it is best overcome—is a topic of increasing interest in healthcare.
November 18, 2020 Colin Beam, PhD
When better is better than best: predictive model development
The field of machine learning (ML), a subset of artificial intelligence in which computer algorithms use statistics to find patterns in data that can predict future outcomes, is undergoing rapid...
November 10, 2020 Ryan O'Connell
Mastering change: the Behavioral Change Stairway Model
The imperative to collaborate to achieve common goals has long defined human interactions. Initially, this imperative was rooted in survival, but working in partnership is no less important today...
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...
February 26, 2020 Steve Hackbarth
Working with dates and timezones in JavaScript: a survival guide
Many JavaScript developers approach dealing with dates and timezone issues with apprehension. And indeed, it’s easy to get turned in a knot as you’re trying to get times working sensibly for all your...
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...
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...
October 22, 2019 Ryan O'Connell
Resources for healthcare improvement
Improvement science, like many quality-related disciplines, is rooted in the work of W. Edwards Deming, the 20th century management expert famous for his 14-point management philosophy and...Follow us
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