“This program reduces our customers’ burden with HEDIS reporting,” says Nikki Asao, Chief Customer Officer, Applied Research Works. “With this DAV certification, ARW’s clients, both health plans and provider groups, can concentrate on providing quality care and less on chasing missing data.”

The validation applies to EHR data from COZEVA’s client provider organizations and COZEVA’s direct EHR integration implementations with individual practices and providers. Data streams that earn validation undergo a rigorous, end-to-end look at the quality and integrity of data and the procedures used to manage and safeguard it. This certification process verifies Applied Research Works adherence to NCQA’s rigorous standards from ingestion at primary sources through the transmission to end-users.

Validation makes aggregated clinical data streams more valuable. Leveraging the consensus-based Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) audit process to validate clinical data flows prospectively, validation promotes trust in aggregated clinical data assets and insights drawn from these data sources. It boosts value-based contracting and, combined with new federal technology standards, makes many of its core features genuinely routine.

Seen as a vital, early step in achieving NCQA’s vision of a digital measurement ecosystem, validated data flows also improve the efficiency of today’s quality measurement processes. Uniquely accepted as standard supplemental data in HEDIS® audits, no primary source verification (PSV) is required for HEDIS reporting when health plans report data from Data Aggregator Validation validated sources.

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