Remote Monitoring Resources for Employees
To keep you, your colleagues, and your families safe during the coronavirus pandemic, a mobile health program offered through Occupational Health will remotely monitor and support employees. Use of the emocha Health app will allow Occupational Health Services (OHS) to support you in tracking any symptoms you may experience during this time, and ensure timely notification for consideration of medical evaluation and/or COVID-19 testing. Participation in this program is strongly encouraged. Please join us in keeping our community healthy and safe.
Instructional Videos
How to download the app
How to set up a PIN
How to submit a check-in
(with symptoms)
How to submit a check-in
(without symptoms)
General Questions
emocha provides a HIPAA-secure 2-way chat so that you can ask questions. emocha can respond to FAQs submitted through this chat. Many hospitals will also provide resources prior to enrollment, including print materials with additional details.
emocha provides a HIPAA-secure 2-way chat so that you can ask questions. emocha can respond to FAQs submitted through this chat. Many hospitals will also provide resources prior to enrollment, including print materials with additional details.
Check with your hospital’s Occupational Health Department for your specific policy on using emocha. Even if participation is not required, emocha is strongly recommended to help track symptoms in one system. emocha is designed to do this in a streamlined, simplified way for you and for your colleagues.
To confirm emocha’s legitimacy, employees can verify partnerships with their hospital’s Occupational Health departments. emocha can also share concerns and ask someone to reach out.
The monitoring period is typically 14 days. emocha will let users know when their monitoring period is complete.
emocha does not offer any information regarding testing results. To access results, please contact your hospital’s Occupational Health department.
You should dial 911 in case of emergency.
You should download the emocha asynchronous video DOT application.
Technical Questions
For technical support from emocha or assistance downloading the app, please contact emocha Health directly at 410-220-5655 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week.
emocha runs on the most basic types of smartphones. As long as the phone includes a front-facing camera, the emocha mobile app will work. In terms of iPhones and Androids, emocha is designed to support iPhones iOS version 10 and up, and Androids version 4.1 and up.
The app is easy to use and only involves a few steps. All you need to do is click the link sent to you via SMS to download the emocha app, and use the username provided in the SMS. You will be taken through a simple password reset workflow to log into the app. emocha will provide instructions to ensure you can easily log in.
emocha’s app is fully HIPAA compliant, with end-to-end data encryption. Everything on the app, including submitting a video, is private and secure. It will only be accessed by emocha’s Patient Solutions team.
When you submit your daily check-in, you will be asked if you are experiencing any symptoms. If yes, you will be asked to record a short video of yourself taking your temperature and stating how you are feeling. For this feature, we need access to your phone’s microphone and video capabilities. This data is automatically encrypted on your phone and securely transferred to the emocha web portal. Only authorized users will have access to your data.
Notifications are used to send you daily check-in reminders. You may also receive notifications that you have unread messages.
Please ensure that you have the latest version of the app downloaded. To update your app, visit the App Store or Google Play store and tap “Update.” If you are still having trouble, contact our team at helpdesk@emocha.com
Daily Check-ins
A check-in is a daily log-in to the emocha app in which you answer the questions displayed on the screen. If you take a video (for those with symptoms), please be sure to display your temperature reading and state your temperature reading out loud.
If you are receiving reminders to check-in that say “Please remember your emocha check-in!” (SMS and/or PUSH notifications) you can change these in the Profile section of the app. These are automatically generated reminders that you can add/modify/delete as you need.
If you miss the previous day’s check-in, emocha’s team will follow up with you to help support you in completing the check-in.
You must check in at least once per day. emocha’s team reviews check-ins between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Those received after 8 p.m. will be reviewed the following day.
Every check-in is reviewed by members of emocha’s Patient Services Team. This team will review submissions within 4 hours, if received between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. The team will escalate critical symptoms to Occupational Health in accordance with your hospital’s policy.
No, your videos are immediately sent to our servers. If you do not have connectivity, we store videos in a locked and encrypted manner to protect your privacy. Once you submit a video, only emocha’s team has access to them. emocha’s care team may share information about your videos with Occupational Health and Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control.
You can select “No” in the app, but use the in-app chat feature to let the team know about these symptoms. Occupational Health will review and reach out to you if needed.
If you don’t have a thermometer, you can contact Occupational Health and see if they can provide you one. We still ask that you submit videos in which you track your symptoms.
You should receive a text message and/or email with instructions on how to download emocha and log in for the first time. Watch the first video above for step-by-step directions.
Yes, you will receive text reminders to sign up 3x/day at 8am, 12pm, and 7pm ET.
After you sign up, you will receive text messages to remind you to check in at 8am and 8pm. Important: these can be adjusted. Tap the menu icon in the top right of your app and navigate to your “Profile.” Scroll down to check-in reminders and adjust both SMS reminders and push notifications.
User Guide
Click here to download the User Guide
Technical Support
For technical support, please contact us at helpdesk@emocha.com or call us at 410-220-5655 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week.
