How-to Guides

Cloning objects  1. Go to Object Workshop and open the object you would like to clone.  2. In the upper right corner of the screen, select the “Clone object” icon.  3. Select “Yes” in the confirmation pop-up window. The c...

Cloning reports  1. Go to Report Manager and open the report you would like to clone.  2. In the upper right corner of the screen, select the “Clone report” icon.  3. Select “Yes” in the confirmation pop-up window. The cl...

1. Go to Measure Workshop and open the measure you would like to clone.   2. In the upper right corner of the screen, select the “Edit measure” icon.  3. In the upper right corner of the screen, select the ...

The single stack object type enables users to join multiple objects into a single object, restrict or transform the object's output, and select columns and derived fields to publish in the resulting object. The single stack object type has many opti...

To create a new Ursa Studio user account, please follow these steps: 1. Go to the User Manager zone. 2. Click on the plus sign icon to the right of the text filter in the upper right corner of the screen.  3. In the User screen update...

Data from flat or fixed-width files can be imported into Ursa Studio using the Import object type. This object type enables users to select a file from a bucket or storage container, specify the file’s delimiter, and import the file into a database ...

Linking (or joining) a timelines object, which has an interval temporal class, to an encounter object, which has an event temporal class, is a commonly required task in Ursa Studio. The instructions outlined below assume that a timelines object is b...

Sometimes you can look at an error message, performance problem, or some unexpected result data, think about the situation for a minute, and just generate a good hypothesis for what the root cause of the problem is. But usually you can’t, in which c...

  Ursa Studio has many ways to export individual charts, aggregate measure results, and raw data from the system; however, in some instances you may be looking to export an entire data narrative that is contained within a Board in order to...

The measures that come in Ursa Studio's analytics modules typically have a large number of published fields, as can be seen by looking at the available columns in Case Review. Nonetheless, there are typically more available fields on the datamarts u...

When dealing with an unexpected SQL failure in ELT, if the error message looks something like: "CASE types character varying and integer cannot be matched" it might just be as it looks: the results of a CASE WHEN pattern are of mismatched data t...

Every data worker knows that optimizing performance can be a unpredictable fight. A query that was perfectly performant the day before now takes much longer to run. A simple join to a modestly-sized, well-indexed table blows up build time. There’s a...

Ursa Studio's design philosophy is to delegate as much computational work as is possible to the database, so understanding the ways in which Ursa Studio leverages the database is a key to understanding the performance profile of Ursa Studio as a who...

A perennial challenge in Ursa Studio, as with any other analytics software, is for users to understand what the data they’re looking at means, where it comes from, and to make sure that it represents the same interpretation of clinical concepts that...

Ursa Studio’s Case Compare feature enables users to quickly compare the current state of an object to a previous state that is stored as a backup. This comparison generates a row-by-row case analysis. To use this feature, follow the guidance below. ...

While working in Ursa Studio, you may find yourself wanting to update a single measure (or even several measures) without needing to rerun an entire report. For example, imagine you are validating a report with ten measures and discover there are tw...

If you forgot your Ursa Studio password and need to reset it, follow these steps: 1. Go to the Ursa Health login screen and select the “I forgot my password” link. 2. In the Password Reset screen, enter the email address associated with you...