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.
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 […]
Welcoming the Ursa Studio Knowledge Base
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. Gathering all the knowledge users need to get the most out of Ursa Studio into a single repository helps create an efficient learning experience […]
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 […]
Ursa Studio 5.0 transforms value-based partnerships with logic interoperability
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 of importing and exporting logic between separate instances of the software has given rise to significant benefits. Most notably, multiple organizations can share the same analytic foundation as […]
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 chronological time intervals, while the y axis presents counts or rates of the data being measured.
A closer look at Ursa Studio’s Advanced Analytics suite
The first step and arguably greatest challenge in healthcare data analysis is transforming incalculable quantities of messy raw data into an asset capable of producing measures that are timely, accurate, and clinically relevant. Successful completion of this first step will produce immediate insights from even simple descriptive statistics, such as counts, proportions, and averages.