Cozeva Completes HITRUST Interim Assessment through the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission

As Cozeva's approved HITRUST CSF® Assessor, DirectTrust® evaluated the company in areas of security and compliance measures

SAN RAMON, Calif., June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cozeva, a leading healthcare technology platform for risk, quality, and value-based care, today announced that after being evaluated by DirectTrust®, an approved HITRUST CSF® Assessor, it has completed the HITRUST Interim Assessment. Required to maintain HITRUST CSF® Certified status, an Interim Assessment is performed one year from the date of the organization's initial HITRUST Certification. With the completion of this assessment, Cozeva has demonstrated that it continues to meet all the requirements in upholding healthcare's information security and privacy standards.

The HITRUST CSF® Certification rationalizes relevant regulations and standards into a single overarching security and privacy framework. The HITRUST CSF® addresses a multitude of security, privacy and regulatory challenges facing healthcare organizations to comply with healthcare (HIPAA, HITECH), third-party (PCI, COBIT) and government (NIST, FTC) regulations and standards. Through HITRUST's assessments via DirectTrust, Cozeva was evaluated in areas of security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and rights management.

"As a HITRUST CSF® Assessor, it's our duty to streamline the security and compliance assurances of the healthcare industry through more leadership and efficiency, and less complexity, redundancy and costs," said Scott Stuewe, President and CEO of DirectTrust. "Cozeva has demonstrated its continued commitment to providing the highest level of privacy and security for its customers and for patients by completing this important assessment. We commend Cozeva for their dedication and deserved success by achieving this certified status."

Cozeva platforms provide a single source of truth, where payers, providers and practices can guide, monitor and manage their daily progress towards quality, cost and access goals seamlessly to improve patient outcomes. Cozeva's comprehensive suite of solutions supports all population health and value-based care initiatives, including risk stratification, quality measurement, cost and utilization analysis, provider and payer engagement, and care management.

"Completing the HITRUST interim assessment demonstrates our ongoing commitment to maintaining the highest security and privacy standards for patient healthcare data," said Khanh Nguyen, CEO of Cozeva. "Our continued certification gives our clients confidence when selecting a trusted partner for value-based care and population health initiatives."

About Cozeva
Cozeva is a healthcare technology company delivering a single, unified platform for value-based care. Built to serve both payers and providers, Cozeva integrates real-time data exchange, quality performance, and risk adjustment into everyday clinical workflows. The platform is NCQA-certified, HITRUST-certified, 2025 Best in KLAS recognized, and designed for interoperability, equity, and regulatory readiness. Cozeva is an Applied Research Works, Inc. company. Learn more at www.cozeva.com.

About DirectTrust®
DirectTrust® is a non-profit, vendor-neutral alliance dedicated to establishing trust in a connected world. The organization serves as a forum for a consensus-driven community focused on health communication and cybersecurity, an ANSI standards development organization, an accreditation and certification body governed by EHNAC, and a developer of technical trust frameworks and supportive services for secure information exchange like Direct Secure Messaging and identity-verified credentials.

The goal of DirectTrust is to develop, promote, and, as necessary, help enforce the rules and best practices necessary to maintain privacy, security, and trust for stakeholders across and beyond healthcare. In addition, DirectTrust is committed to fostering widespread public confidence in the interoperable exchange of health information while promoting quality service, innovation, cooperation, and open competition in healthcare. To learn more, visit: DirectTrust.org.

The DirectTrust Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is a voluntary, standards development organization (SDO) established to develop standard criteria and accredit organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data. These entities include accountable care organizations, data registries, electronic health networks, EPCS vendors, e-prescribing solution providers, financial services firms, health information exchanges, health information service providers, management service organizations, medical billers, outsourced service providers, payers, practice management system vendors, third-party administrators and trusted networks. DirectTrust is an authorized HITRUST External Assessor, making it the only organization able to provide both DirectTrust Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission accreditation as well as to conduct HITRUST CSF assessment services. 

Guided by peer evaluation, the DirectTrust accreditation process promotes quality service, innovation, cooperation and open competition in healthcare. To learn more, visit www.DirectTrust.org , contact [email protected], or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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SOURCE Applied Research Works, Inc.