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 AI can execute and defend.
Category: Industry
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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 experts.
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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 our experience so far in integrating AI tooling into our workflow.
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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.
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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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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 even more powerful when supplemented with clinical and other data sources). Trusted analytics, in turn, are the first step toward optimal operations and outcomes, as well as the financial reconciliation between partners that value-based contracts require.
“With everything else involved in launching or expanding a new business, specialty care providers (SCPs) may be tempted to put data and analytics planning on the back burner. Those that delay too long, however, could find themselves scrambling to get new partnerships off the ground or to keep up with an ever-changing landscape. In the best-case scenario, late-night heroics save the day but inordinately stress the team. In the worst, lack of planning leads to lost sales, crumbling partnerships, and dwindling rather than growing healthcare impact.”
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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.
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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 Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model, the ACO REACH Model seeks to further the goals of value-based healthcare transformation based on feedback from earlier Direct Contracting initiatives, with a specific focus on health equity.
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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 Centers, have earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
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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?