Sep 28 2010
HealthWyse, a leading provider of home health and hospice agency automation software, announced today that it has secured a patent for its Remote Personnel Tracking program to help homecare agencies keep track of their employees and prevent Medicare fraud. HealthWyse will showcase its Remote Personnel Tracking Program at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) 29th Annual Meeting & Exposition, held October 2 - 6 in Dallas, Texas. HealthWyse will be exhibiting at Booth 1307 and invites attendees to "get spoofed" and learn more about the importance of having a succinct personnel tracking program for field based employees.
“The development and patent protection of this program is a significant milestone for HealthWyse”
HealthWyse customers using the program have reported increased patient satisfaction, a reduction in fraudulent activity and an overall better workflow. The Northeast Clinical Services, Inc. in Danvers, Mass. has eliminated fraudulent activity through the Remote Personnel Tracking Program.
"We made an investment in HealthWyse's CallWyse and Remote Personnel Tracking Program in order to establish clear and specific documentation of employee time spent caring for our patients," said Robert Wilson, Chief Operating Officer Of Northeast Clinical Services, Inc. "Our services are largely paid for by the Medicare and Medicaid programs and we wanted to be certain that our rapid growth would not erode the integrity of our services. We needed to find a unique time and attendance system that would also give us the employee location and tracking capability. The CallWyse system does just that and has provided the company, patients and families we serve with excellent protection against possible claims of fraud and abuse."
The Remote Personnel Tracking program, which is available through CallWyse, uses location verification via SecurID. To implement the program, homecare agencies place a security token in the patient's home and optionally assign a token to each field based employee. Upon arrival, the employee must call in and enter the six digit code generated every 60 seconds by the security token in the patient's home to identify the location of the employee. If the employee is assigned a token, they will be prompted to enter the six digit code generated by their own security token to identify themselves.
"Medicare fraud and abuse costs the government millions of dollars each year," said Dr. Mike Kramer, CEO of HealthWyse. "HealthWyse is proud to offer its clients a unique service to help prevent fraud and abuse. Our remote personnel tracking program provides our clients with greater control over their field based employees and ensures that patients receive the care promised by the homecare agency."
"The development and patent protection of this program is a significant milestone for HealthWyse," said Andy Braunstein, three-time MIT graduate and Chief Technology Officer of HealthWyse. "Our Remote Personnel Tracking program is far superior to other methods of tracking field based employees which include using GPS and caller ID from the patient's home. Both methods are unreliable, and do not take the measures needed to prevent Medicare fraud and abuse."
HealthWyse holds two patents in location verification technology. Home health and hospice organizations interested in receiving additional information about the personnel tracking programs can contact HealthWyse at (877) 777-9973 or by visiting www.healthwyse.com.
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