Truveta Adds 3 Health Systems to Large-Scale Data Platform
In February 2021, 14 large healthcare organizations announced they had banded together to build a large-scale data platform company called Truveta. Now three more health systems have joined Truveta, and the 100-employee company says its members provide more than 15 percent of all U.S. patient care.
The three new members are Baylor Scott & White Health, MedStar Health and Texas Health Resources. They join the original 14 health systems: AdventHealth, Advocate Aurora Health, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Bon Secours Mercy Health, CommonSpirit Health, Hawaii Pacific Health, Henry Ford Health System, Memorial Hermann Health System, Northwell Health, Novant Health, Providence health system, Sentara Healthcare, Tenet Health, and Trinity Health.
The members hope the platform will provide longitudinal insights that link together underlying health conditions, treatments, and outcomes so physicians can learn how to best treat patients and share this knowledge broadly.
According to its website, the vision for Truveta began as an idea within Providence health system in 2018. They knew there were valuable needles of insights buried within the haystacks of data they managed, yet they could not access them. After working on their concept, they realized the data set needed to be much larger to statistically serve all patients and that building a data platform to make sense of the data would require significant technical expertise and investment.
Truveta is advised by a board of governors to ensure expertise is infused from a variety of perspectives for strategic stewardship. Leaders from a diverse set of health providers will provide ongoing strategic, scientific, and operational advice on areas of expertise including Ethics & Health Equity, Data Integrity, and Clinical Outcomes to help ensure Truveta operates according to its vision, the company said.
The health providers will govern Truveta’s pursuit of insights from this de-identified data set. The company said it would use artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver tools to physicians, biopharma and families with aggregate analysis of conditions, therapies, and prognosis.
In a blog post, Truveta CEO Terry Myerson said the partners have invested nearly $100 million in Truveta to date. “Their investment is enabling us to build the infrastructure and cloud computing resources required to support over 15 percent of U.S. clinical data—and to hire an amazing team,” he wrote. “Our team has grown quickly to over 100 talented people inspired by our mission. Our team is multi-disciplinary including computer scientists, data engineers, physician scientists, clinical informaticists, designers, data-visual researchers, biostatisticians, and public policy experts.”
