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 healthcare organizations use their data to learn, make decisions, and innovate. Valtruis portfolio companies Cricket Health and Wayspring are already experiencing quantifiable advances in their data analysis and management capabilities through both […]
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 Catalyst. The article highlights cost and quality insights into the commercially insured population of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) resulting […]
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 impressive, right? But what does it all actually mean? Some argue these terms have strayed far from their original definitions, while others have criticized their misguided or […]
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 holes of effort and morale.
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 examination was conducted in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Type II evaluation tests the design and operating effectiveness […]
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 care physician or clinic has been managing a patient’s health to properly assign the rewards when that patient has a good outcome (e.g., good medication […]
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 scenarios. This uncertainty is compounded in healthcare, where the characteristics of a typical data analytic exercise don’t usually conform to the “big data,” aggregation-oriented use cases around which […]
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 analytics, most organizations still struggle to bring their data to bear on even their most important decisions.
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 time.
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 with Virsys12 founder and CEO Tammy Hawes and her co-host, Clark Buckner, to discuss the importance of healthcare data analytics to the innovation process, […]