LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 4, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Healthcare AI-powered Risk Adjustment technology and services company achieves significant milestones in its first year. 

Celebrating its first anniversary, RAAPID sees a bright future for its Risk Adjustment solutions based on what they have accomplished in year one.  Despite spending far more on healthcare than other nations, the US lags behind in many key health measures, including life expectancy, accessibility, and value for service. Higher cost does not equate to higher quality and acceptance and adoption of sustainable, unique, and customized AI-driven solutions for Medicare Advantage Organizations, and healthcare providers continue to grow, and RAAPID is at the forefront of building new and dynamic solutions for their customers around the globe.

About RAAPID

Launched in February 2022, RAAPID, the personalized AI assistant for risk capture, is providing healthcare payers, medical coding service organizations, providers, and facilitators across the United States with access to the most powerful risk adjustment platform on the market.   RAAPID's solutions give payers, providers, coders, and hospital executives the opportunity to accurately structure key data points to effectively determine patient risk scores and calculate premium totals.

Raapid.ai has developed its state-of-the-art NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology that runs on top of Deep Learning algorithms. RAAPID 's patented technology has been trained across millions of real clinical charts and delivers accurate outcomes. This AI-powered Risk Adjustment Software ensures you don't miss out on HCC codes or RAF scoring opportunities while ensuring compliance by removing unsubstantiated codes. RAAPID combines the latest advances in machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data science, and data engineering with deep clinical and biomedical expertise.

Talking about the long history of the foundation of RAAPID:

RAAPID is Chetan Parikh's latest venture, a modern natural language processing (NLP) powered, AI-driven risk adjustment solution.

"Our mission at RAAPID is to support the healthcare ecosystem so that doctors and clinicians can provide the highest level of care to their patients. We are committed to developing and deploying advanced healthcare AI technologies that empower healthcare workers to deliver affordable care with empathy and make a positive impact on their lives. Our goal is to make human activities more meaningful" Affirms Chetan.

Reminiscing on the Past

"There are lessons to be learned from the past and I think for RAAPID, it comes down to two things. First, dream big! We had big dreams when we started RAAPID. We made these dreams come true by turning them into goals and actionable strategies. What we have achieved is far beyond the wildest dreams we had at the start of this journey. 

Second, believe in your dreams passionately, show resilience, learn from your mistakes, and get back up when you get knocked down: the power of passion and perseverance!" recalls Chetan

Casting the Future:

This year, RAAPID is entering a new phase with AI-Driven personalized solutions for healthcare providers. We are creating new technology innovations transforming our engineering and product lines to improve customer experience with a commitment to continuing to deliver value with speed and accuracy.

Through leveraging its innovative deep Knowledge Graph-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, RAAPID reads charts just like any human coder would do, and automatically suggests risk adjustment-relevant codes, eliminating inefficiencies and inaccuracies in the process. By streamlining manual coding workflows through the platform, users can expect significant improvements in hierarchical condition category (HCC) Coding and risk adjustment factor (RAF) scores, RAAPID offers the most efficient risk adjustment workflow automation capabilities available today.

The Way Forward

RAAPID's vision is to become the world's leading technology provider of customizable risk adjustment products for value-based healthcare organizations. The goal of the organization for the next five years is to make its SaaS and API offerings accessible to all healthcare payers, providers, and medical coders for better data accuracy, proper on-time risk score derivation, and most importantly, achieve value-based care. 

Keynote by the President - Chetan Parikh

"RAAPID, today is a burgeoning organization in the Risk Adjustment space. Our esteemed customers recognize the differentiated value we bring to them in terms of superior service delivery, innovative solutions, and responsiveness to their needs. They also recognize our contribution to the healthcare industry. 

We need to continue to build on their trust and demonstrate clear actions. The overall market will continue to get more competitive, and we absolutely need to continuously improve to stay ahead of the competition and achieve our goals. We have established an incredibly talented group of SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), Engineers, Data Scientists, Medical Coders, and Advisors to ensure we are at the right speed in terms of technology adoption and implementation.

Saying that, our core values - Integrity, commitment, and transparency remain the guiding principles for everything we do, and I would like to continue with this as the major driving force for RAAPID as an organization."

Dr. Hanby and His Team
Northwest Arkansas' First Robotic Total Knee Arthroplasty in an ASC Performed by C. Kris Hanby, M.D., of Ozark Orthopaedics.

ROGERS, Ark., February 4, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Ozark Orthopaedics surgeon C. Kris Hanby, M.D., has officially performed the first robot-assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Northwest Arkansas ASC with the Zimmer Biomet ROSA® Knee System. 

The procedure was performed Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at Precision Surgical Center of Northwest Arkansas.

"I'm excited about our ability to perform this procedure in an ASC setting. We're the first to do it in Northwest Arkansas," stated C. Kris Hanby, M.D., a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and joint reconstruction specialist at Ozark Orthopaedics. "For many patients, ASCs offer an efficient and affordable outpatient experience with the same state-of-the-art technology and safety standards as a typical hospital setting."

The surgery is now offered in the ASC by all of Ozark Orthopaedics' joint replacement specialists. Dr. Jonathan D. Creech of Ozark Orthopaedics performed the surgery Thursday, Jan. 26, and Dr. Matthew J. Coker will perform the surgery in the coming weeks.

This procedure may be appropriate for anyone suffering from severe knee pain or stiffness resulting from noninflammatory degenerative joint disease (including osteoarthritis, traumatic arthritis, or avascular necrosis), rheumatoid arthritis, or post-traumatic arthritis and for whom conservative treatment options, like bracing, medication or joint fluid supplements, have not provided relief.

For more information, please visit Ozark-Ortho.com/contact-us.

ABOUT OZARK ORTHOPAEDICS 

Ozark Orthopaedics has been setting the standards for total orthopaedic care in Northwest Arkansas for 75 years. Our expert physicians and physical therapists treat injuries and problems of the spine, hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, knee, hip, foot and ankle, as well as sports medicine concerns. For more information, visit Ozark-Ortho.com.  

ABOUT PRECISION SURGICAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 

The Precision Surgical Center of Northwest Arkansas, LLC was established in 2018 by hospital and clinical personnel to offer safe, high-quality surgical care. The center specializes in outpatient surgery, providing patients with personalized service and excellent medical care. The center meets the highest industry standards for top-quality healthcare and is accredited by The Joint Commission. For more information, visit PrecisionNWA.com.

OpenBots Partnerships with Hexaware and Simply Automate
OpenBots Partnerships with Hexaware and Simply Automate in the Global Digital Summit 2023

MIAMI, February 3, 2023 (Newswire.com) - OpenBots is proud to assist companies in carrying out automation workflow solutions that successfully mimic human behavior and interactions on computers, connect disparate systems, process documents, and perform repetitive tasks with 100% accuracy. The platform provides businesses with a limitless team of bots and enterprise automation utilities without bot licensing fees.

A car auction company that carries out sales around the country previously conducted manual auction searches, which involved sending out requests manually, searching for vehicles, and other time-consuming, repetitive, and error-prone tasks. With the help of the OpenBots Platform, businesses have automated aspects of the car auction process that eliminate 80% of labor costs and save over 280 hours a week of manual searching. OpenBots partner, Simply Automate, is expected to save this client almost a quarter of a million dollars annually.    

"Jumpstarting this client's automation program not only means more freedom," says Wilton Rogers, CEO of Simply Automate, "but it also means more flexibility and opportunity to place more time into initiatives that bring in more value, such as building relationships with the brokers. It makes work a lot easier and so much more productive." 

OpenBots has announced a partnership with Hexaware, a global technology and business process services company. As part of its automation suite of solutions, Hexaware has automated the insurance claim status process, improving the current processing times manyfold. Claims status is an inquiry and response communication between a Payer and Policy Holder. A Policy Holder can send a request to a Payer to know the status of their claim, which then gets forwarded to a centralized portal system that confirms multiple Payers' status requests. Digital workers access this centralized portal, process the status request, and provide status responses to the Policy Holder - decreasing the average handling time from 15 minutes to one minute.  

"Intelligent automation such as this not only streamlines business processes to ensure accuracy and improve employee satisfaction, but it also reduces operational costs and provides improved trackability and reporting," says Chandru Ramaswamy, Head of Intelligent Automation Services and Banking Operations at Hexaware. 

"There's been a huge growth of automation solution providers in just under a decade, which proves that many more enterprises are beginning to embrace such technologies to their own benefits, reducing their dependency on human employees and time." 

CMO of OpenBots, Gilberto Marcano, says, "We do our best to ensure business owners, companies, and clients can complete mundane or everyday tasks far more effectively, in an automated way."  

SEATTLE, February 3, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Guides.Vote just released a nonpartisan guide to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. The guide consolidates the candidates' experience, positions, and endorsements into one easy-to-use tool. The New York Times recently called the race "arguably the most important election in America in 2023," and given how confusing state Supreme Court races can be, our guide can help voters participate. 

Four years ago, a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat was decided by 6,000 votes, while three quarters of eligible voters stayed home. This primary could be equally close. It's possible that two conservatives or two liberals could advance to the April 4 general election, so it's important for people to vote even if they're on the fence as to who to support.

Published since 2012, Guides.Vote's rigorously researched guides increase voter turnout by improving voter knowledge and confidence. 

"In a time of widespread political cynicism, disinformation, and spin, these guides provide a concise and credible way to compare candidate stands. Partners tell us that they help people get past both widespread misinformation and the myth that it's not worth voting because candidates and political parties are all the same, all corrupt, all lying and spinning," says Paul Loeb, Guides.Vote founder. 

A  team of veteran journalists creates the guides to provide a trusted source of information for voters to compare candidates' positions on the issues including LGBTQ rights, abortion, redistricting and gerrymandering issues, and voting and gun rules. The guides help voters know what is at stake and why their voice matters. 

These guides are unique in how they're created, the information they provide, and the accessibility of their presentation. Our interactive website provides resources in English and Spanish for Wisconsin voters.

Guides.Vote has made the guide available as a public resource and is distributing them on college campuses, through civic partnerships and on social media. News outlets are encouraged to link to our Wisconsin Voter Guide, post it on their sites, and share on social channels. 

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ABOUT GUIDES.VOTE

Guides.Vote produces nonpartisan voter guides, drawing on votes and stands candidates have taken as elected officials as well as what they've said at debates, town halls and in media interviews. The guides have been created and distributed to students at community groups and hundreds of colleges since 2012. Guides.Vote is sponsored by Youth Service America. 

OpenBots announces new partner solutions
Fully Featured Intelligent Automation Platform OpenBots has officially announced three new partnerships, which are expected to help clients order, purchase, and carry out tasks more effectively through its automation services.

EDISON, N.J., February 3, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Fully Featured Intelligent Automation Platform OpenBots has officially announced three new partnerships, which are expected to help clients order, purchase, and carry out tasks more effectively through its automation services. 

The first company OpenBots has confirmed working with is NITCO Inc., which is renowned for accelerating automation with its Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Conversational AI, Chatbots, Intelligent Automation, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The company already services clients in various industries. Still, it will work with OpenBots on an exclusive automation service to allow Shipping Clerks to ship products, such as urgent PPE, promptly.   

Together, the companies have set out to change the game for Shipping Clerks - helping them to fill out U.S. Customs forms successfully, ship PPE products to the USA due to Covid when necessary, reduce U.S. Customs fines, and ensure hospitals receive the PPE swiftly and successfully. 

Chandra Yatagiri, CEO of NITCO, said, "We always want to provide great value and service to anyone working with NITCO, which is why this partnership with OpenBots is so important to us. This automation solution is for any logistics or shipping organization needing to comply with government reporting regulations for international shipments. This reduces the workload for shipping clerks, is more accurate and reduces compliance penalties for the company."   

In addition, OpenBots has partnered with Tangent Solutions to allow utility service providers to bill customers efficiently. Carrying out a regular, monthly schedule via Tangent Solutions, a robot will access the website of utility service providers whenever a payment is due before utilizing an OCR tool to extract amounts from each invoice. The robot will then log onto an SAP system to input the relevant data and take payment, ensuring a smooth and straightforward process. 

"A digital workforce for me is about having an intelligent digital assistant to assist humans in removing the mundane, tedious tasks that hinder them from completing more strategic work that will add value back to business," says Adrienne Kelly, CEO of Tangent Solutions.  

Finally, OpenBots will also launch new digital workers with Mozaiq to help consumers and mortgage lenders automatically operate loan applications. The fully automated process includes post-close audit, loan delivery process, loan auditing for corrections, and ensuring the data in the system of the record matches each loan document. 

"With more loans being consistently processed, human errors being reduced, loan throughput being increasingly higher, costs going down, automations like this sets up lenders to better absorb future increases in loan volumes," says Francesco Paola, Chief Growth Officer at Mozaiq.  

"Ensuring business owners, companies, and clients can get on with everyday tasks effectively, without fail, is imperative to our mission," says OpenBots CEO Ashish Nangla.