ARW’s Contribution to COVID-19 Relief in India

ARW’s Contribution to COVID-19 Relief in India

India’s COVID-19 cases are reaching new devastating heights everyday with over 3 million active cases. We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis we have seen in our lifetimes. As a global community, it’s time we join hands to contribute and stop this crisis.

 

ARW is participating in a volunteer effort power by Pathcheck Foundation – whose mission is devoted to containing COVID-19 and providing relief to India. A team of dedicated volunteers from all around the world are coming together to address poor resource allocation and gaps in data that can be fatal if neglected when fighting a pandemic.

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Pathcheck Foundation and Karuna web app

The team is launching a decentralized web app, Karuna, for crowdsourcing information and providing real time updates of beds, oxygen and hospital supplies in India. Currently, the pilot version of Karuna is live.

 

The efforts from this project include

  • Crowdsourcing patient recovery and treatment plan in a privacy preserving manner for COVID-19 recovered patients.
  • Have access to hospitals’ integrated oxygen and inventory mapping
  • Early detection and risk stratification
  • Variant tracker and super spreader tracking of the new variant
  • Ending misinformation about COVID-19
  • Modeling, prediction and analysis of COVID-19 cases

To know more about this project and how you can contribute, visit https://www.pathcheck.org/india.

Let’s do our part and fight this global crisis as one.

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Applied Research Works, Inc. Announces COZEVA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Measure is Live!

Applied Research Works, Inc. announces COZEVA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Measure is Live!

Fremont, CA — May 4, 2021 — Applied Research Works, Inc. (cozeva.com) announced that clients can now track COVID-19 vaccine administration in COZEVA.

 

The COVID-19 vaccine measure is a custom measure designed by COZEVA with input from the COZEVA client community. The measure has been offered to clients free of charge and incorporates multiple data sources to determine vaccine completion, such as immunization and claims data.

Via this measure, COZEVA clients can:

  • Track each patient’s vaccination status
  • Stratify patients by age
  • Generate targeted patient lists for outreach
  • Utilize geomapping functionality to identify high-need areas.

If you are an existing COZEVA client and have not enabled this measure, contact us today to get started. 

New to COZEVA? Contact us at info@cozeva.com to schedule a demo. Learn how we are tackling healthcare’s data problem and providing robust, easy-to-use tools to monitor quality and risk performance

 

About Applied Research Works

Applied Research Works, Inc. (ARW) is a health information technology and services company, it’s flagship product COZEVA is a platform that combines cloud-based data analytics, a real-time metrics engine, submission services, provider dashboards that directly engage patients and caregivers, collaborative health records for AMP, HEDIS, and Risk Adjustment. It is the first product that is certified by NCQA, DirectTrust, EHNAC, ONC, PQA, Drummond, and IHA simultaneously.

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The Power of Cozeva Analytics

The Power of Cozeva Analytics

We hope you and your families are staying safe during this unprecedented time. At COZEVA, we are supporting our customers’ workflow and helping them track high risk patients who may require additional care and outreach during this COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the ways of doing this is through COZEVA Analytics to identify your target population. You can slice and dice this data by groups who are at high risk, specific chronic conditions, number of chronic conditions, and recent hospitalizations. You can also track patients you are doing outreach to using the power of COZEVA analytics.

If you have any questions about this workbook or how COZEVA can help during this time, please reach out to info@cozeva.com. Additionally, if there are other workflows that you would like to share, we would love to hear from you!

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SaaS Everywhere: ARW’s Customer Success Strategy in this time of COVID-19

SaaS Everywhere

ARW’s Customer Success Strategy in this time of COVID-19

As COVID-19 has created a new normal with the stay-at-home orders, I sat down virtually with our CTO, Amitava Maulik, and asked him some questions about how our company is continuing to support our clients, our team, and what we have learned from this pandemic.

How do you continue to support your customers during this time?

At ARW, our work transitioned quite smoothly to this new reality. ARW has always taken advantage of software and infrastructure offered as a service. Internally, we already use cloud-based platforms for numerous internal functions from software development, product deployment, sales, employee benefit management, accounting, human resources, marketing, documentation and training. Luckily, ARW’s business and our own platform, Cozeva, has been unhampered just like consumer cloud services most of us use everyday, like Google or Amazon.

How are you maintaining high-performance teamwork?

To help maintain performance, ARW has encouraged its staff to make their home office as private, comfortable and well-equipped as possible. Because we have a distributed team and a flexible work-from-home policy, with remote work and web conferencing firmly established in our workflow, we were able to transition quickly. We also hold daily team huddles and open forum discussions with our teams to ensure that everyone is supported and stays connected. During our weekly All-Hands, different team members are paired up to discuss their ongoing projects and also share their struggles and challenges. Our ongoing challenge is to help our hardworking team members to take enough breaks to keep their bodies moving and healthy while staying safe.

How will this pandemic affect ARW and Cozeva’s development and growth?

Cozeva product architecture decisions when we were first founded, have helped us to weather the pandemic without any hiccups and has avoided many of the challenges of on-premise installed software products.  Here are a few ways the pandemic has opened up new opportunities to be of deeper service to our customers:

  • First, Cozeva helps with proactive outreach to patients most vulnerable to COVID-19. The science is still evolving, but so far the evidence points to underlying comorbidities as potential signifiers that the patient is at higher complication risk if they are exposed to COVID-19. Cozeva has already been helping our customers to run analytics to identify those patient cohorts and conduct proactive outreach and monitoring.
  • Secondly, Cozeva is helping practices stay productive despite stay-at-home orders. As in-person office visits go to zero, telehealth visits are the new norm because of the need for physical distancing. Many practices have taken this time to close these care gaps via telehealth outreach so that when their offices open up again there will be less of a backlog. Fortunately, because of Cozeva’s cloud infrastructure, doctors and their staff are able to securely login from their homes as needed. This work to catch curable diseases at an early stage or to make sure patients with chronic diseases are trending in the right direction, must still happen even as everyone copes with the isolation of COVID-19.
  • Finally, Cozeva will be there for the future of COVID-19. When COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are lifted, the virus will still be circulating around the world until a good vaccine is approved a year or more from now and the clinical trials of treatments are final. Cozeva already helps track the annual flu vaccines and we track many comorbidities (smoking, diabetes, heart conditions) that make certain patients more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications. Cozeva will be there to help analyze, stratify and do the best case management for those who need to take extra precaution and get special support. In this time of COVID-19, best-in-class population health is needed by health systems and medical groups more than ever and Cozeva will be there all the way.

For questions or comments, please contact us at info@cozeva.com.

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Telehealth Risk Adjustment During COVID-19 Pandemic

Telehealth Risk Adjustment During COVID-19 Pandemic

Can a diagnosis made during a telehealth visit be counted for risk adjustment? That has been the big question surrounding the Risk Adjustment community as our government and top healthcare officials continue to battle COVID-19.

The answer is yes!

From the Department of Health & Human Services on April 10, 2020:

“CMS is stating that Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations and other organizations that submit diagnosis for risk adjusted payment are able to submit diagnosis for risk adjustment that are from telehealth visits when those visits meet all criteria for risk adjustment eligibility, which include being from an allowable inpatient, outpatient, or professional service, and from a face-to-face encounter. This use of diagnosis from telehealth services applies both to submissions to the Risk Adjustment Processing System (RAPS), and those submitted to the Encounter Data System (EDS). In order to report services to the EDS that have been provided via telehealth, use place of service code “02” for telehealth or use the CPT telehealth modifier “95” with any place of service.”

The full letter can be found on the CMS website.

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