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On this date last year, Truveta was officially founded by four innovative health providers, Providence, Advocate Aurora Health, Tenet Health, and Trinity Health. September 22 will always be a special day for us. As I think back, I’m reminded that Truveta was born of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic began ravaging our country and … Continued
I first started thinking about our Truveta brand last summer. We weren’t officially a company yet. I didn’t even know if I would ultimately join the team. But after talking with CEO Terry Myerson for months, I was so inspired by the vision for Truveta and personally passionate about how much the world needs Truveta to exist
I will never forget when I first wrote the words Hello from Truveta. I was the first employee of a new startup imagined by several innovative healthcare leaders who believed that by working together we could achieve a compelling vision: Saving Lives with Data. What started with four health systems grew rapidly. In just a few months, … Continued
What is your role at Truveta? I’m vice president of product management. I’m responsible for building the Truveta platform with a focus on four key areas: the data ingestion into the platform, data modeling, security and compliance, and how researchers will use Truveta and the de-identified data. Truveta is enabling research on a big set … Continued
What do you focus on at Truveta? I’m a software engineer. Previously I worked mostly on our DevOps infrastructure, and now I’m beginning to spend half my time on UI/UX (user interface, user experience) work for our researcher-facing app. Front-end development is new for me, and I’m grateful that my team has been supportive of … Continued
A century ago, my Mexican great-grandfather, Ricardo Angelo Mestres, died of the Influenza of 1918 at the age of 39. Born in Tampico, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, he had lifted himself up from sweeping pool halls to support his widowed mother and five sisters. And then, some years later, he fell, alongside the … Continued
What will you focus on at Truveta? My focus at Truveta is fundamentally about partnerships; and in my role I think of focusing on four things: 1. listening to customers and partners; 2. working with members to build the Truveta platform; 3. creating opportunities for customers to use data from the Truveta platform for ethical … Continued
When the ethicists of our founding health systems convened to discuss guiding principles, we quickly found a shared belief that the use of emerging technology and artificial intelligence in health care should be driven by a commitment to preserving and advancing human dignity, justice, and the common good. We hold these values close, as our … Continued
What will you focus on at Truveta? I will help the company establish policies for how it will handle data to advance human health. How we preserve patient anonymity while enabling researchers to draw insights; how to do research in a way that reflects the ethical imperatives of our health systems; how we make healthcare … Continued
It was March 2020. I was quarantined in my home with my family, genuinely a little scared for the world at large. What is going on with this new virus? How do I protect those I love? Why are so many dying? Why don’t we have more data to help us now? That same month … Continued