Part 3: Ursa Compass: Empowerment Over Automation
In Part 1 of our series, we introduced the eager intern model: a strategy for harnessing the power of AI while firmly anchoring it in a loop of human verification. In Part 2, we described how we’ve formalized hard-won institutional knowledge into a living checklist, letting us encode what senior engineers know into prompts that […]
Part 2: The Living Checklist: When Gawande Meets Karpathy’s Software 3.0
Atul Gawande made a deceptively simple argument in The Checklist Manifesto: avoidable failures are common not because we lack knowledge, but because we fail to apply what we already know — consistently, correctly, and at the right time. The humble checklist, he argued, offers a lightweight way to encode and enforce best practices, even among […]
Part 1: The Eager Intern Model and Karpathy’s Verification Loop
A key part of Andrej Karpathy’s recent talk at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School involved the challenges and opportunities of building software in the context of powerful but inherently flawed large language models. Karpathy’s advice — that AI works best when its output is limited in scope and rapidly reviewed by humans — tracks with […]
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 platform from Ursa Health, to support its mission of changing the way this historically underserved, stigmatized, and deprioritized population engages with the healthcare ecosystem.
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. It was a beautiful time for everyone from colder climes to visit our fair city, and the event did not […]
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. Although lacking some clinical context, clean, well-organized claims data is vital for creating longitudinal patient views and the main fuel for analytics (which of course become […]
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 data analytics innovator, to inform, refine, and expedite its unique brand of value-based care delivery.
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 requirements of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ACO REACH (Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) Model. A redesign and rebrand of the Global […]
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 Microsoft Azure) and Ursa Hybrid Cloud (residing at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure), in addition to its Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Data […]
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. But is there evidence that AI and predictive analytics have begun to deliver real value?