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What is EVV?

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What is Electronic Visit Verification?

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) is a method used to verify home healthcare visits in the United States.

Part of the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016, EVV has been introduced to reduce fraudulently documented home visits while ensuring people receive the documented care they need. In turn, this helps verify that the services billed for are actual visits made.

All US states are required to implement EVV for home care agencies that provide personal care services (PCS) by January 1, 2020, and home health services on January 1, 2023, or risk having their medical claims denied. Many states already have EVV implemented.

How to Comply with EVV Legislation?

The federal government has suggested several possible methods to comply with EVV legislation. One of the most popular methods that ensure home care agencies adhere to EVV is through using a Lone Worker tracking app that uses location services on the caregiver’s cell phone. Most states are opting for mobile solutions because people no longer have landline phones and fixed devices are more costly and burdensome to implement than mobile apps.

The Vismo Lone Worker Solution

The Vismo Lone Worker Solution uses GPS technology to locate caregivers using their smartphone or device, as they travel between jobs and at patients’ homes. When arriving at a patient’s home, caregivers can check-in using the Vismo App. This will verify the date, time and place that they started their home healthcare visit. Once they have completed their visit, the caregiver can check-out from within the Vismo Lone Worker App, which will record the information about the job in compliance with EVV and store it on the Vismo Secure Portal.

The Vismo Lone Worker App features an integrated Panic Button to aid with monitoring caregiver’s safety if they face an emergency or a duress situation. Once the Panic Button is activated, monitoring teams are automatically notified of the situation. Vismo then covertly records audio which is available for playback to help monitoring teams to further understand the situation and follow the required escalation process.

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Features of the Lone Worker App:

  • Yellow Alert with Timed Check-ins
  • Panic Alert with Covert Audio Recording
  • GPS Tracking with Location History
  • Two-way Encrypted Messaging
  • Mass Notifications
  • Geo-Fencing
  • Assignments
  • Personalized Interface

 

The deployment of the Vismo Lone Worker App on a caregiver’s smartphone will allow Home Care Agencies to meet the EVV mandate and in addition improve communications, enhance business process and most importantly, improve the safety of their caregivers as part of their organizational duty of care.

Ready to start protecting your employees?

Email: enquires@vismo.com
Call: +1 866 815 9128 (USA) or +44 (0) 1904 616666 (UK and RoW).

Monitoring COVID-19 and Employees with Vismo

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Vismo has integrated COVID-19 data into its tracking solution enabling clients to actively monitor employees in relation to outbreaks.

Vismo has integrated the latest COVID-19 data from Johns Hopkins University into the Vismo Secure Portal, as a Point of Interest (POI) layer. This information is available to all Vismo clients free of charge.

Johns Hopkins University is actively monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic, updating the information in real-time on the number of cases, deaths and recovered patients, in affected countries and by States in the US.

By incorporating this data into the Vismo Secure Portal, it enables organisations to display the exact location of an employee with the latest COVID-19 statistics overlaid on their position.  In addition, having the ability to track an employee who may have become infected, and then the potential to trace any contact with another colleague could be helpful in isolating the spread of the virus.

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Whilst a third of the world’s population is currently in lockdown, and the start of international business travel unlikely in the immediate future, keeping a track of virus numbers in countries when travel restrictions are lifted may influence a decision to allow an employee to travel or not.

Johns Hopkins University

The COVID-19 dashboard map was built by Professor Lauren Gardner at Johns Hopkins University back in January when the outbreak was primarily in China, to track the spread of the disease as it unfolds from transparent data sources.

Collecting information from a variety of sources including the World Health Organisation (WHO), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, enables Johns Hopkins University to effectively relay the latest information in real-time.

Actively monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University are reporting on a range of information including the number of cases, active cases, deaths and recovered patients, in affected countries and by States in the US.

Integrating the latest COVID-19 data from Johns Hopkins University into the Vismo Secure Portal enables clients to visualise cases and monitor employees’ locations relative to the outbreak.

For more information about the integration of COVID-19 data into Vismo, contact a member of the Vismo team.

Email: enquires@vismo.com Call: +44 (0) 1904 616666 (UK and RoW) or +1 866 815 9128 (USA).