Advancing health equity through trust – The core of Cozeva’s 5th Annual UGM

Advancing health equity through trust – The core of Cozeva’s 5th Annual UGM

October 19-21, 2022 – Applied Research Works, Inc. hosted its 5th annual User Group Meeting in San Diego at the Pendry Hotel. This year’s conference theme was trust; more specifically how trust advances health equity. Throughout the conference, attendees learned about how our company is earning your trust, how we build trust with you, and how we are building trust with each other, and at the center of it all is the patient.

The User Group was kicked off with Yin Ling Leung, former CEO and Chair, acknowledging how much we’ve grown in the last 10 years and will continue to grow as Yin and Shaibal step down and pass the baton (metaphorically and literally) to ARW’s new CEO, Khanh Nguyen.

This year’s conference had three keynote speakers to start each day off. Day 2’s keynote speaker was Dr. Lauren Taylor (faculty member of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and expert in trust in US Healthcare). She spoke on how to “Build and Sustain Trust” in healthcare.

The session took the audience through an arc of:

  • What is it that people are reacting to that is making them take action to rebuild trust? What does the data look like in this trust crisis in the US
  • Sharing a synthesis of her research on what’s been done on trust in healthcare specifically over the past 50 years, and ended with
  • 7 suggestions and best practices for building and sustaining trust.

Another favorite session of the conference was a client showcase given by Lina de La Rosa (Senior Director of the Quality Improvement Department) and Glad Jaranilla (Sr. Project Manager, Quality Improvement) from Optum about their provider rollout and the different functionalities and tools they use within Cozeva to engage their users.

Our 3-day conference was full of other client showcases, industry leader presentations, breakout sessions, and Cozeva feature highlights sprinkled throughout the days. Despite the packed agenda, there were many opportunities to network and build community with one another during our networking reception, strolling dinner, and in-between session breaks.

Thank you to all who attended this year’s User Group! We are so glad you could join us to learn about trust and build relationships with one another as we build out this Cozeva ecosystem together. We hope you enjoyed hearing from all the presenters and will join us next year for another amazing User Group.

"What did you enjoy most about the conference?"

Client Testimonies (From Survey):

“The ability to network with peers and learn how others are using Cozeva and how we could do something similar in the future.”

“Everything! But if I had to choose: 1.) speakers were worth their chops – very engaging topics and compelling presentations 2.) networking, networking, networking 3.) meeting the Cozeva team and founder, celebrating Khanh, and confirming this tool is such a no brainer for provider groups taking on risk.”

“The energy. The group thinks outside the box about new approaches. Most of all Cozeva’s ongoing receptiveness…they truly value user opinions, priorities, etc. Genuine people who care about success and work hard for all of us!”

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The Creator of Cozeva Announces New Executive Leadership

The Creator of Cozeva Announces New Executive Leadership

Applied Research Works, Inc. Appoints New Chief Executive Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Customer Officer. October 6, 2022

Fremont, CA, Oct. 6, 2022 – Applied Research Works (ARW), the creator of Cozeva, a real-time data integration and analytics platform for supporting value-based care, appoints Khanh Nguyen, Pharm.D., as Chief Executive Officer, Nikki Asao as Chief Revenue Officer, and David Meyer as Chief Customer Officer. These appointments are in preparation for Applied Research Works’ ambitious growth strategy. Outgoing CEOs and Co-founders Shaibal Roy and Yin Ling Leung will remain as Chair and board members of ARW.

 

Roy and Leung made this joint statement, “Our organically-grown company has reached its 10th anniversary, and our next growth spurt is underway. Cozeva already supports many provider organizations and health plans to succeed in the most sophisticated pay-for-quality programs in the nation. With this new leadership team, we are excited to see Cozeva succeed in many more sectors and geographies.”

 

“With Khanh and David, we have two powerhouse experts from the complex worlds of quality and risk. They have deep experience with value-based, shared-risk programs between provider organizations and health plans. As for ARW’s sales success, Nikki has been driving the incredible growth of Cozeva for the past eight years and this promotion to CRO is a recognition of her leadership in both our sales and customer success.”

 

As the new CEO, Ms. Nguyen holds a Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of California San Francisco and brings a deep provider focused track record to ARW. She has built and led high-functioning teams delivering creative payer-provider collaborations and successful population health programs. Her leadership around care innovations, health disparities, patient engagement, system integrations for enhanced point-of-care solutions, and provider incentive programs broke new ground in the sophisticated managed-care environment. Ms. Nguyen is active in multiple industry organizations, including serving on the Technical Payment Committee for many years, and currently as a board member, with Integrated Healthcare Association.

 

Regarding her appointment as CEO, Ms. Nguyen shared a few reflections. “I am excited and humbled to assume the position of CEO at ARW. Cozeva’s innovative and collaborative approach to product development coupled with the leadership’s collective managed care expertise allows us to anticipate and deliver integrated, scalable solutions for our client’s most challenging healthcare needs. As CEO, I am thrilled to grow the company’s footprint across new markets and drive the expansion of Cozeva’s ecosystem with transformative capabilities that support digitizing quality, operationalizing health equity, improving patient-centered health outcomes, enhancing the care experience, and actionability at the population level and point-of-care.”

 

Incoming Chief Customer Officer, David Meyer will lead the customer experience work and ensure that Cozeva maintains its lead in integrating quality, risk adjustment and health equity. Mr. Meyer is a much-recognized expert in healthcare informatics, satisfaction, quality program design and measurement, and revenue management / risk adjustment. He has been a frequent speaker at RISE, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and Strategic Solutions Network (SSN) conferences for over 15 years. Recent prior leadership roles for Mr. Meyer include Vice President for Informatics at SCAN Health Plan, Corporate Vice President for Operations with Avita (now InnovaCare Health), and Vice President of Business Operations at Cigna.

 

Reflecting on his decision to Join ARW, Mr. Meyer stated, “It is a privilege to join the leadership team at ARW. The Cozeva product is uniquely positioned within the healthcare technology space to deliver truly integrated and appropriately incentivized population health management to other vendors, physicians, medical groups, and health plans.”

 

Nikki Asao, newly named the Chief Revenue Officer at ARW, has been a member of the leadership team with the company since 2014 during which she has led sales and marketing, as well as customer operations. Over the past decade, Nikki has focused her career on transforming healthcare and has driven tremendous growth for ARW since its founding. While growing the company, Nikki has steadfastly focused on growing Cozeva’s value to the customer and ensuring their success.

 

“I have had the opportunity to sit at the table with leaders from our current and prospective customer base over the years and listen to their shared challenges. I’m honored and humbled to now get to work alongside two of the most visionary of them all, Dave and Khanh. At ARW, we are committed to finding innovative solutions so that our customers can focus on the more meaningful work of delivering care to their members and patients,” said Asao. “There is a lot of misalignment in healthcare. I believe our product Cozeva and the people behind it can empower healthcare organizations to thrive as the industry transforms from volume to value.”

 

About Applied Research Works – Cozeva:

Cozeva is THE operating system for value-based care. We work on perfecting our real-time data integration tech and growing our ecosystem, so our customer’s quality and risk programs work seamlessly on one platform. Cozeva was among the first to build true population health by bringing together quality and risk adjustment completeness for both health management and clinicians at the point of care.

 

Cozeva is the one-stop-shop population health solution for Clinical Quality Performance (HEDIS, AMP, CMS Stars), Risk Adjustment, and Total Cost of Care management, empowering providers and health plans to achieve equitable outcomes through high-quality, affordable, person-centered care.

 

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Taylor Diniz
Business Development Manager
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MY2022 AMP Measure Certification

MY 2022 AMP Measure Certification

ARW-Cozeva has completed MY 2022 AMP measure certification. We ensure that our clients’ AMP submissions are made with the most up-to-date measure logic.

 

We have successfully reported AMP program performance to IHA for eight years running. We support over 75 CA physician organization entities, caring for over 3 million Californians enrolled in Commercial and Medicare HMO, POS, and Commercial PPO products.

 

Congratulations to Team Cozeva for their effort in accomplishing this.

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Cozeva joins the Allscripts Developer Program to Make New App Available for EHR Users

Cozeva joins the Allscripts Developer Program to Make New App Available for EHR Users

Cozeva is a certified HEDIS engine that provides point-of-care solutions for quality care gap closure, risk adjustment coding, and Case Management. Through this integration, Cozeva will retrieve clinical information from Allscripts Professional EHR to automatically close care gaps and improve risk adjustment workflows.

Fremont, CA, August 26, 2022 – Applied Research Works, Inc. announced today that Allscripts has certified Cozeva as part of the Allscripts Developer Program. Cozeva is an innovative solution that enables Allscripts Professional EHR™ users to retrieve clinical information from the EHR to automatically close quality (HEDIS) and risk care gaps within Cozeva. Cozeva also works with other EHRs, visit the Allscripts App Expo for a list of certified integrations.

With the integration, Cozeva will retrieve the patient’s clinical data (CCDA) upon encounter sign off. Cozeva will ingest and utilize the EHR data to report the most up-to-date evidence-based clinical guidelines pertaining to quality and risk. This solution accelerates decision-making and helps providers minimize administrative burden to identify gaps in their medical charts. Similar integrations resulted in an >8% performance increase for HEDIS measures such as HbA1c control, childhood immunizations, and controlling blood pressure.

Cozeva Features:

  • Integration is compatible with Allscripts Professional EHR™ version 19.4 and above as well as other EHRs
  • 2-3 week integration timeline
  • Next app release will provide point-of-care visibility, enabling users to launch Cozeva from within the EHR

“Joining the Allscripts Developer Program will enable us to help Allscripts clients by eliminating double documentation,” 

said Kelli Glynn, Director of Product & Partner Strategy at Applied Research Works, Inc.

“Cozeva-EHR integration is a win-win for Cozeva clients and provider offices. EHR integration results in sustained metric improvement and reduces an organization’s nonstandard supplemental data burden. Our mission is to launch these integrations so our clients and providers can focus on patient care.”

The Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) offers both proprietary and FHIR® enabled APIs to connect third-party applications, devices, and other innovative healthcare technologies with Allscripts products. Find more information about Cozeva on the Allscripts App Expo. Health IT developers can create a free account at https://developer.allscripts.com to access the Allscripts Open APIs and start building or connecting new innovations for Allscripts users.

About Cozeva

Cozeva’s operating system for value-based care delivers powerful metrics meant to help providers proactively improve the care of their patients. Cozeva empowers care teams to make timely and informed decisions about their patients’ needs by transforming trusted measures from sources such as NCQA and CMS into actionable patient-level care opportunities such as those for preventive screenings, control measures, adherence measures, and so on. These care opportunities are calculated using comprehensive patient data from multiple sources (Payers, PBMs, etc.) including the data in Allscripts Professional EHR.

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Enhance workflow and improve patient diagnosis with the Cozeva NLP

Enhance workflow and improve patient diagnosis with the Cozeva NLP

Natural Language Processing or NLP is the ability of computers to decipher human speech terms and texts. Health organizations have increasingly used NLP to enhance the efficiency of provider workflows and improve patient diagnosis.

In healthcare, NLP is pivotal for improving,

  • Interactions with providers

It deciphers complex medical terms, solves EHR challenges for nurses, and is used as an alternative to handwritten notes.

  • Health knowledge and awareness

It comprehends and displays complex medical information in a way that patients can understand to make informed health decisions.

  • Care quality

NLP tools offer efficient evaluation metrics to improve care quality.  Algorithms assist healthcare organizations in identifying errors in care delivery and mitigating them.

  • Critical care needs

NLP algorithms identify and extract vital information from large databases and provide doctors and medical staff with the right tools to treat patients having complex health problems.

Now let’s look at Cozeva’s NLP technology and try to understand what makes it so unique. 

What makes the Cozeva NLP unique?

Cozeva uses NLP technology that extracts clinical information from the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) notes and feeds the extracted information along with administrative data, supplemental data, and assessments into the platform’s Predictive Analytics tool.

 

Patients associated with an evidence-based care plan who are diagnosed with, or suspected of, combinations of chronic conditions are listed on each care opportunity report. These care plans indicate when patients are due for specific assessments, diagnoses, or treatments. When there is any indication, the metrics engine generates an alert for the team of healthcare professionals to address the needs of their patients.

 

It provides predictive analytics and dynamic population health management to provide “real-time” patient information that facilitates timely diagnosis. It implements more than 300 measure sets for diverse conditions.


The technology has a significant ability to decipher contextual information and unambiguous vocabulary. It helps reduce your administrative burden and coder intervention by increasing efficiency by 5x, saving time, and minimizing iteration.

 

It collects charts and allows Natural Language Processing (NLP) to do the hard work by-

 

  • Extracting from Free Text in C-CDAs– Apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) to
    any free text in C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) documents to help close HCC gaps. Improve your accuracy over time by profiling the source of the C-CDAs.
  • Extracting from Scanned Charts– Apply deep learning techniques to extract text from scanned documents and highlight documents to quickly convert to structured data.
  • Increasing ROI– Reduce chart chases by retrieving charts automatically via Cozeva’s secure gateway and increase quality coding by listing specific codes and reducing the need for clinical chart review.

 

You can get detailed insight into abstraction results. Cozeva’s NLP reviews submission results override initial NLP findings, and lets you stay in control of accepting or rejecting your records.

 

The NLP not only looks for clinical documentation entered by the provider but also looks into open care gaps the member might have. It assesses single charts as well as a percentage of charts for quality measures and risk adjustments.

What are some other features of the NLP?

Cozeva’s NLP technology,

  • boasts over 98% accuracy in risk and 99% in quality
  • improves performance in both quality and risk registries
  • helps you launch new measures in weeks
  • enables seamless switching between NLP for quality and NLP for risk 
  • allows you to print out charts with highlights
  • is competitively priced.

Our NLP uses ICD 10-CM guidelines to promote accurate coding for causal conditions. It also shows providers “missed opportunities” where documentation is lacking to promote higher specificity and more complete documentation.

Additionally, NLP results can be used to build reports (of trending errors) for provider training to help correct documenting habits at the point of care.

 

The NLP technology is a daily solution and not a project-based solution. Cozeva is presently enhancing its NLP in EHR integration where NLP results can be obtained after signing an encounter note. NLP extracts free text in C-CDAs and from scanned charts. It powers your transformation into a value-based healthcare ecosystem which in turn increases your ROI.

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Applied Research Works-COZEVA achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

Applied Research Works-COZEVA achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

Cozeva has achieved HITRUST CSF Certification, the world’s most widely adopted security and privacy framework in the healthcare industry.

News Summary:

 

  • Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW), Cozeva Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification to Further Mitigate Risk in Third-Party Privacy, Security, and Compliance
  • HITRUST CSF Certification is the industry gold standard, combining security standards set by HIPAA, NIST, PCI, and many more.

FREMONT, CA, July 15, 2022– Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW) today announced that as of 4/15/2022 Cozeva has achieved HITRUST CSF Certification, the world’s most widely adopted security and privacy framework in the healthcare industry.

 

This certification combines best-in-class standards from HIPAA, NIST, PCI, and GDPR – the toughest privacy and security law in the world, and many others. Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW) is committed to providing customers reliable and secure collaboration of protected sensitive information. Patient privacy is paramount for healthcare customers and HITRUST CSF Certification places Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW), Cozeva is an elite group of organizations worldwide that have achieved this certification.

 

“Organizations like ours are continually under pressure to meet complex compliance and privacy requirements that include technical and process elements such as NIST and ISO,” said Shaibal Roy, CEO at Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW). “We are pleased to demonstrate to our customers the highest standards for data protection and information security by achieving HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification.”

 

“In today’s ever-changing threat landscape, HITRUST is continually innovating to find new and creative approaches to address challenges,” said Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer, HITRUST. “Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW)’s HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification is evidence that they are at the forefront of industry best practices for information risk management and compliance.”

About Applied Research Works

Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW) is the creator of Cozeva, a cloud platform bridging the real-time data needs of health plans, physician organizations, and the people they serve. Cozeva is used by payers and providers to achieve high-quality care and share actuarial risks. Cozeva is also the first solution that combines a real-time certified metrics engine, advanced data analytics (artificial intelligence and natural language processing), submission services for complex managed-care programs for Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial, and a collaborative health record for care management. It is also the first product that is simultaneously certified by NCQA (HEDIS & AMP), DirectTrust, EHNAC, ONC, PQA, and Drummond.

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Cozeva, APG’s latest corporate partner, sponsors the APG Annual Conference 2022

Cozeva, APG’s latest corporate partner, sponsors the APG Annual Conference 2022

The America’s Physician Groups (APG) annual conference was held from June 1- 3, 2022, at the Marriott Marquis in San Diego, CA. The conference is an annual educational and networking event for physician groups, providers, health plans, and many other stakeholders, where the latest developments from the US healthcare industry are shared.

Cozeva is proud to be APG’s corporate partner, effective June 2022, and a platinum sponsor of the annual 2022 conference. We are grateful for the opportunity to support APG’s mission and to help bridge collaborations between providers and payers.

 

Just as important as learning about the latest healthcare innovations, the in-person connections developed at the conference were invaluable. The Cozeva-sponsored Headshot Zone, where attendees came and took professional photos, was particularly popular. We were thrilled to see so many attendees build meaningful connections while waiting for their headshot!

It was also great to meet industry leaders during the APG strolling dinner and at our very own Cozeva VIP social and networking event at Noble Experiment, a hidden San Diego gem. Lastly, we were humbled to contribute to the Clinical Quality Leadership Committee Meeting featuring the incredible Dr. Ira Byock and his work in palliative care. Cozeva sponsored this year’s session, “Palliative Care is Essential to Quality in Value-Based Care.” Dr. Byock shared key clinical, data, and systems strategies to scale palliative care and improve outcomes in ways that can accelerate the transition from volume to value in healthcare.

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Minding Mental Well-Being (With Cozeva)

Minding Mental Well-Being (With Cozeva)

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered significant increases of anxiety and depression rates, with multiple stress factors, including loneliness, fear, financial insecurity, and grief, contributing to these increased rates. Certain groups of people were more likely to be impacted, such as young people and women, and those with pre-existing physical health issues. [WHO]

COVID-19 and Mental Health

As the pandemic wore on, greater increases in poor mental health or substance abuse rates impacted young adults (compared to all adults), those experiencing job loss (compared with those who did not), children and their parents (particularly mothers, compared with men with children), those from Non-Hispanic Black adults and Hispanic or Latino adults (compared with Non-Hispanic White adults), and essential workers (compared to non-essential workers). [KFF]

Mental Health and Healthy People 2030

Healthy People 2030 organizes the social determinants of health into five domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. Within the last domain, it highlights how structural and individual discrimination harms health in various populatons, such as racial/ethnic minorities, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, older adults, and people with disabilities [Healthy People]. Its objectives for mental health and mental disorders [Healthy People], such as increasing screenings for postpartum depression, align with some of the behavioral health measures Cozeva customers can choose to include in their quality registries and Analytics workbooks.

Mental Health Back to Basics MHA

Use Cozeva to Manage Your Patients’ Mental Health Care Opportunities

As a population health management tool, Cozeva supports plan administrators, provider organizations, and their practices to easily track their patients’ behavioral health screenings and management opportunities. For example, identifying those not yet screened for depression, tracking medication adherence, or tracking those needing to be followed up after a diagnosis of a substance use disorder, can be easily done through Cozeva. For Medicare patients suspected for or past coded for mental health-related conditions, our risk engine can efficiently identify those needing confirmation of those conditions.

 

As a real-time metrics engine, Cozeva’s gap reports and powerful Analytics can better inform your organization’s efforts with these essential mental health services. With options to target patients by geographic area, by length of time from their last service, or by available race, ethnicity or language data, these efforts can improve patient compliance and engagement for better mental health outcomes.

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Boost Your Patients’ COVID-19 Immunization Rates with Cozeva!

Boost Your Patients’ COVID-19 Immunization Rates with Cozeva!

April is National Minority Health Month with the theme of Give Your Community a Boost! The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health is focusing on continued efforts to vaccinate those eligible due to COVID-19 as the third leading cause of death in 2020 (CDC). It’s also vital to examine “underlying health and social inequities that put many racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting sick, having more severe illness, and dying from COVID-19.” (CDC)

 

COVID-19 Vaccine and Health Equity Issues

A variety of factors impact vaccination access and acceptance, which commonly affect racial and ethnic minority groups. These factors include education, income, job access and working conditions, racism, health care access, transportation and neighborhood conditions, and lack of trust. (CDC).

 

Immunization rates among racial groups have been shifting with the on-going efforts to immunize those still unvaccinated or have yet to receive booster shots. The CDC data at the national level shows some significant gaps to understand who is and is not getting vaccinated. (KFF)

Use Cozeva to Manage Your Patients’ COVID-19 Immunizations and More!

As a population health management tool, Cozeva supports plan administrators, provider organizations, and their practices to easily track their patients’ COVID-19 immunization care opportunities. Outreach to those still not fully vaccinated or needing boosters is key to fighting this ongoing pandemic.

 

As a real-time metrics engine, Cozeva’s gap reports and powerful Analytics can better inform your organization’s outreach efforts. With options to target patients by geographic area, by length of time from last service/immunization, or by available race, ethnicity or language data, these efforts can improve patient compliance and engagement for improved health outcomes.

 

Furthermore, our team is working on incorporating Social Determinants of Health factors as part of a patient’s care opportunities. Stay tuned for this exciting development to address whole person care and challenges to health equity!

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