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 over time of key internal controls, such as security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
Category: Company
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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 they work together to improve clinical and financial outcomes.
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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
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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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 ground-breaking analytics development platform, that will make it easier for organizations to meet the initiative’s goals. The Primary Cares Initiative is designed to spur value-based transformation in primary care by reducing administrative burdens, which will in turn accelerate innovations that improve both outcomes and the healthcare experience for Medicare beneficiaries.
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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 the CMS QIO about the hospital’s readmission rates, but these did not help her to identify specific changes or to engage her colleagues, the hospitals, and the SNFs.
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Ursa Health takes a top spot in AHRQ challenge
NASHVILLE, TENN., SEPTEMBER 9, 2020—Predictive analytics can drive healthcare performance improvement and program innovation by anticipating areas of need, helping organizations determine where to direct resources to optimize care outcomes. To build momentum and advance the science in this important area, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently fielded a new challenge competition, “Bringing Predictive Analytics to Healthcare,” designed to assess the reliability and validity of varying predictive models. Ursa Health, a data analytics software and professional services company, ranked third in the competition.
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Meet the founders: Andy Hackbarth
What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do?
My position is chief product officer. My primary responsibility is to oversee development of the software platform, to think strategically about the direction in which the software should go in consultation with others in the organization, and to consider what features would be most valuable for our users. I also work with clients that need data architectural guidance, whether that’s setting up their data warehouse, helping them answer tough analytic questions, or considering how the different data that are available could be used to answer those questions. So my role is a mix of product development and scrubbing in with the professional services team.
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A new look for Ursa Health
We’re always busy here at Ursa Health, but over the last few months we’ve been engaged in a special project: reinventing Ursa Health’s brand identity.
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Meet the founders: Steve Hackbarth
What’s your role at Ursa Health, and what do you do?
As chief technology officer, I primarily manage development of our application, Ursa Studio, as well as the technical infrastructure surrounding it.