Auscura’s symptom surveillance technology helps companies bring employees back to the workplace.
Most people will acquire the novel coronavirus before a vaccine is available. A business that does not require screening its staff for symptoms – an essential aspect of infection control – may become a transmission hotspot. When many employees get sick at once, operations are disrupted, individuals become resentful, and wrongdoing claims increase. Offices located in urban areas are at a higher risk since public transit increases spread. The solution is daily employee health assessments, which will need to persist for a year or longer.
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Auscura leverages technology to keep COVID-19 out of the workplace. SmartContact™ is its communication platform that allows employees to relay symptoms and high-risk activities before coming to work. It eliminates human errors, creates workflow efficiencies, and complies with CDC and OSHA recommendations. Employees are linked to educational resources and company policies that address infection control.
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According to Dr. Tom Scaletta, CEO of Auscura, and a practicing emergency physician, “Daily symptom surveillance is integral to workplace safety.” He maintains, “Checking temperatures at an entrance creates bottlenecks, requires the expense of screeners, and is a clinically-flawed strategy. Even when I admit patients to the hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia, less than a third have a fever at triage. I recommend self-checks for fever using an oral thermometer, which is more accurate than infrared, forehead devices. We need to know if there are symptoms before someone leaves home, so no infection is passed along during a commute.”
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