Ursa Health

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  • Valtruis enters strategic partnership with Ursa Health

    Valtruis enters strategic partnership with Ursa Health

    NEW YORK — () — 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 the Ursa Studio no-code analytics development platform and the unusually productive training, support, and consultative relationships they have formed with Ursa Health’s team of healthcare IT and data analytics experts.

    “Building on the investments made in our first year — with Cricket Health, Wayspring, U.S. Medical Management (USMM) and Oncology Care Partners — we are moving quickly and strategically to realize our foundational commitment,” said Valtruis Managing Director Karey Witty. “That commitment is to accelerate the adoption of value-based care through investments in and collaboration with companies and entrepreneurs that share the vision, talent, and innovative strategies to make value-based care a reality. Ursa Health is one of those companies.”

    “We bring scalable innovation to healthcare,” said Ursa Health CEO and Co-Founder Robin Clarke, MD. “Companies driving toward meaningful strategic innovation need their data to provide richer, more nuanced answers than healthcare as an industry has historically delivered — and they need these insights at the speed of business. Ursa Studio is a technology that unlocks a fresh approach to developing trusted information. On the technical level, the platform shifts IT team time from the labor of debugging code and managing data plumbing, opening up their capacity to answer additional business questions. On the human level, the platform enables rapid iteration and collaboration between the producers and consumers of analytics, bringing teams to a successful endpoint more quickly. As a result, organizations gain the self-service capacity to fill their information gaps and guide their innovations more efficiently and effectively.”

    Early-phase successes from Valtruis’ partner companies attest to the value, intelligence, and flexibility of the Ursa Health technology and analytics approach.

    Adam Dunning, Chief Information and Analytics Officer at Wayspring, stated: “We needed a solution to fast-track the development of our SUD Home offering. Working with Ursa Studio, allowed us to accelerate the building of foundational data analytics structures. Our clients and staff will see notable returns as we continue to master the technology offering developed by Ursa Health.”

    About Valtruis

    Valtruis, a WCAS company, provides a unique platform that invests in and partners with disruptive leaders whose mission is to align, and transform healthcare through what is truly value-based care. Founded on a commitment to accelerate meaningful change, Valtruis brings the functional expertise, access to capital, and an expansive network that advance our partners’ evolution from early-stage development to industry-leading enterprises. Together, Valtruis and its partner companies will break through the systemic barriers in the healthcare industry to reduce costs, expand access, increase quality, and radically improve the patient experience. Learn more at valtruis.com.

    About Ursa Health

    Ursa Health is transforming analytics so innovators can transform healthcare. Our analytics development platform, Ursa Studio, combines no-code technology with healthcare-specific content, enabling health plans, providers, digital health companies, and others to take a Buy Your Build™ approach to their analytics infrastructure. With the structured adaptability of Ursa Studio, organizations can make full use of their rich data resources to accelerate growth. To learn more, visit www.ursahealth.com.

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  • NEJM Catalyst: analysis of healthcare disparities for health insurer

    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 from Blue Cross NC’s collaboration with Ursa Health.

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  • Making sense of advanced analytics terminology

    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 cynical application.

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  • Hierarchical data models: a modern approach to organizing EDW data

    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.

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  • Ursa Health Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Assessment

    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 over time of key internal controls, such as security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

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  • Patient attribution 101: tips for setting up a dynamic model

    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 adherence, or lower-than-expected spending over some period) or the responsibility for a bad outcome (e.g., a readmission, or a preventable emergency room visit).

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  • Report: 2021 Database Benchmark for Healthcare Analytics

    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 the latest generation of columnar DBMSs were developed.

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  • A healthcare data analytics manifesto

    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.

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  • How to track patient features over time for pop health analytics

    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. 

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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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