Tuva Health is a company on a mission to accelerate the creation of high-quality evidence and AI from healthcare data. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tuva Health CEO Aaron Neiderhiser to learn more about the company.
Aaron Neiderhiser’s Background
What is Aaron Neiderhiser’s background? Neiderhiser said:
“I began my career doing data analysis for Colorado Medicaid, focusing on various actuarial and population health analysis problems. During this time, I helped the agency develop a comprehensive data strategy.”
“From there, I went to work as the Senior Vice President of Technology for Health Catalyst, where I was responsible for Touchstone – a data warehouse with medical records and claims data on more than 150 million patients across the U.S. This is where I became acutely aware of the challenges in transforming healthcare data to enable analytics, AI, and evidence, which ultimately inspired me to start Tuva Health.”
Formation Of The Company
How did the idea for the company come together? Neiderhiser shared:
“During my time at Health Catalyst, it felt like we were reinventing the wheel on all aspects of healthcare data transformation. All of the projects hit a glass ceiling due to the lack of proper tools available in the industry to clean, normalize, and enrich the data in a usable way.”
“We founded Tuva Health, believing healthcare analytics should be open, accessible, and transparent. Using an open-source data model, Tuva Health empowers healthcare providers, payers, life sciences companies, and research institutions to take control of their healthcare data through more effective and efficient data management and transformation. With our open-source data model, we have the unique opportunity to set the standard for healthcare data transformation and unlock the true potential of data.”
Favorite Memory
What has been your favorite memory working for the company so far? Neiderhiser reflected:
“The very early days working out of my co-founder Coco’s house. He has a massive chalkboard in what is now his 5-year-old’s bedroom and we spent hours ideating about the problems we were going to solve.”
Core Products
What are the company’s core products and features? Neiderhiser explained:
“Tuva’s core offering is an open-source healthcare model that cleans and transforms healthcare data from doctors’ offices, hospitals, insurance companies, and other sources into digestible insights. Tuva also offers customers the option to purchase its pre-configured, fully implemented, and fully managed data platform built around this open-source framework.”
Significant Milestones
What have been some of the company’s most significant milestones? Neiderhiser cited:
“In the past year, we’ve achieved several significant milestones that have helped position us as a leader in the healthcare data transformation. First, we launched out of stealth with $5M in seed funding, led by Virtue, Box Group, Y Combinator, as well as notable health tech angel investors Brigham Hyde, Nikhil Krishnan, Malay Gandi, and Christine Lemke.”
“In addition to the funding, we have partnered with 30 healthcare organizations, including industry leaders like Oscar Health and CareAbout Health. We also expanded our internal team of healthcare analytics and technology experts, enhancing our ability to innovate and meet the growing needs of our partners.”
Customer Success Stories
When asking Neiderhiser about customer success stories, he highlighted:
“Oscar Health and CareAbout Health have successfully integrated Tuva Health’s data model and reduced data processing effort by 90%, enabling its teams to shift focus from time-consuming data preparation to generating actionable insights. These insights have optimized the member experience and improved patient outcomes. This illustrates the immediate, measurable impact Tuva Health delivers by reducing complexity and promoting efficiency in analytics.”
“But Tuva Health’s impact extends beyond individual organizations. Its open-source approach fosters a vibrant community of over 1,500 healthcare data and analytics practitioners who continually collaborate to refine the data model. The data model ensures consistent, high-quality analytics across diverse healthcare datasets by creating a reusable, transparent standard for data transformation. This collaboration accelerates the identification of novel treatment pathways and the development of evidence-based healthcare solutions, benefitting patients and stakeholders across the ecosystem.”
Funding
When asking Neiderhiser about the company’s funding, he revealed:
“We have 30 partners already leveraging the platform, supported by $5M in seed funding and a growing network of collaborators.”
Differentiation From The Competition
What differentiates the company from its competition? Neiderhiser concluded:
“Our free, open-source data model prioritizes transparency and collaboration. The healthcare analytics market has only offered healthcare organizations costly “black box” solutions that hinder transparency, accessibility, and control over data, slowing the ability to gather meaningful insights to improve patient care.”
