Ursa Health

Author: Sandy Bielawa

  • We are Ursa Health: meet Liz Costa

    We are Ursa Health: meet Liz Costa

    What is your role, and what do you do?

    I am a senior director of analytics engineering. Basically, I build stuff. While I’m stepping into some of the shoes worn by Andy Hackbarth (founder and chief product officer), I’m also helping to define the role a bit for the company. Industry wide, analytics engineering—like data science before it—means different things to different people. For me, it predominantly means that you’re trying to take source data and transform it in such a way that it becomes reusable for many different types of analyses, and you’re trying to find ways to simplify it for the end user so they know exactly what the data is trying to tell them.

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  • ViVE 2023 recap

    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 disappoint.

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  • We are Ursa Health: meet Andria Muscatiello

    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 understand what’s involved. Recently I’ve started overseeing the team of TCSMs and am now thinking more broadly about what the future of the team looks like and how we can best support our clients. I’m excited to work on developing our team culture.

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  • We are Ursa Health: meet Mike Siffermann

    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, and client delivery made sense given my experience with consulting. I like interpreting results, staying a step ahead of clients, and leading them to the answers that they’re looking for.

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  • We are Ursa Health: meet Santhosh Raj

    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 and value for Ursa Health’s clients. This falls into two broad categories:

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  • We are Ursa Health: meet Katie Sylvester

    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 potential so they gain the most value from its use. I serve as a conduit to all the groups at Ursa that make that happen, keep things organized, and shepherd projects through all their stages.

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  • Turning data into innovation: Robin Clarke joins the Virsys12 podcast

    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, and how organizations get past the hype to real value. 

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  • The state of advanced analytics in healthcare: panel summary

    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 value?” on a daily basis. Enterprise electronic medical record systems are ubiquitous, generating rich clinical and operational datasets. New technologies now provide access to cheap, unlimited data storage and processing power—good news, as the volume of healthcare data grew nearly 900% from 2016 to 2018 . Breakthroughs in methods and tooling have brought machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and other advanced analytic techniques to the forefront. Interoperability standards continue to advance.

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  • Meet the founders: Dr. Robin Clarke

    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 development, and product vision. And then longer term, I guide the company’s business strategy and am responsible for the forward-looking evolution of the company’s products and services.

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  • Carving out a great culture

    Carving out a great culture

    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 be seen and recognized? I expressed my concerns to a very wise friend, who scolded, “What are you complaining about? You have a great job and the flexibility to come and go as you please.”

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