MultiCare partners with Tuva Health for data insights

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MultiCare Connected Care has partnered with Tuva Health for claims and other data insights on more than 375,000 patients.

MultiCare Connected Care is an independent accountable care organization of the nonprofit and physician-led MultiCare Health System that operates in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

Tuva Health is an open-source healthcare data transformation platform that has a library of open-source algorithms. It will build, operate and manage MCC’s enterprise healthcare data platform. MCC’s internal data team will operate on Tuva’s platform.

WHY THIS MATTERS

By partnering, MCC will be able to analyze and derive insights from the claims and clinical data of over 375,000 patients across Washington State. This is expected to accelerate and enhance care decisions.

The partnership highlights a growing demand among healthcare systems for greater ownership, transparency, and flexibility in managing their data, Tuva said.

“We’re experiencing a shift away from traditional data management in which health systems send their data to expensive vendors that restrict the capabilities of their internal data teams,” said Aaron Neiderhiser, CEO and cofounder of Tuva Health. 

THE LARGER TREND

Tuva Health launched last year with $5 million in funding led by Virtue, with participation from Box Group and Y Combinator and other tech investors. It was founded by Aaron Neiderhiser and Coco Zuloaga, former senior executives from Health Catalyst and Strive Health, Tuva’s total funding raised is now $6 million.

The company encompasses a network of more than 30 partners across providers, payers, life sciences companies and research institutions, including Oscar Health and CareAbout Health. 

ON THE RECORD

“With prior data platforms, our teams lacked transparency, which inhibited our ability to reconcile and validate external sources of truth, and customizing other platforms for our specific needs proved difficult,” said Anna Taylor, associate vice president of Population Health and Value-based Care at MultiCare. “We thought we needed to build our own platform to address this.”

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