Contact Tracing

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Contact Tracing Employee Service Management

    The ServiceNow® Contact Tracing application assists organizations in minimizing the transmission of infectious diseases within the workplace by tracking users who may have been in contact with an infected individual. It consolidates data from badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs to identify potentially exposed users and provides updates on reported cases or symptoms at specific locations.

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    Key Features

    • Identifies on-site users in contact with potentially infected individuals.
    • Aggregates data from various sources to enhance exposure detection.
    • Correlates Wi-Fi access data to track interactions among users.
    • Employs integration options for Wi-Fi access data and risk score reports from external systems like Zebra and Devvio.
    • Facilitates the creation of outreach cases for follow-ups with affected users.
    • Maintains user privacy through consent management and data retention settings.
    • Integrates with other Safe Workplace suite applications for enhanced functionality.

    Key Outcomes

    By leveraging the Contact Tracing application, organizations can effectively monitor employee health, manage potential exposures, and ensure a safer workplace environment. This solution enables real-time tracking and reporting, facilitating timely interventions and supporting regulatory compliance related to health and safety protocols.

    The ServiceNow® Contact Tracing application helps organizations reduce workplace transmission of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, by identifying any on-site users who might have been in contact with an affected user. The user receives updates about the number of reported cases or symptoms in the location. A list of potentially exposed users is created from various data inputs, such as badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs.

    Features

    • Identify on-site users who may have been in contact with a potentially infected user.
    • Aggregate contact tracing information across workplace locations, work shifts and reservations, badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and self-reporting logs to enhance search criteria.
    • Identify potential user interactions with a user using the Wi-Fi access data by correlating who connected to the same Wi-Fi network using laptops, mobile devices, or Bluetooth LE devices. You can get the Wi-Fi access data by manual import or through integration with Mist Systems or Cisco DNA Spaces.

    • Get the contact tracing data of users who use handheld or wearable devices at the workplace. You can import the contact tracing report from Zebra MotionWorks Portal.
    • Monitor risk scores of users who use wearable devices at the workplace. You can import risk score reports with Devvio integration.
    • Create outreach cases and tasks for follow-up interviews with potentially impacted users.
    • Assess the status of potentially exposed contacts and their next two levels of potential exposures from within a case using visualization.
    • Maintain the data privacy of users, in the context of contact tracing by obtaining their consent.
    • Use data retention settings to determine when the data collected for contact tracing is automatically deleted from the system.
    Identify potential exposures from affected users to minimize transmission of infectious diseases at the workplace
    Use guided setup to implement Safe Workplace suite apps
    The Safe Workplace guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications on your ServiceNow instance. To open the Safe Workplace guided setup, navigate to Guided Setup > Safe Workplace Guided Setup. For more information about using the guided setup interface, see Using guided setup.

    Use with other ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite and applications

    The Contact Tracing application provides enhanced capabilities and additional features with other Safe Workplace suite applications.
    • Emergency Outreach: Configure and send email and mobile notifications to users requesting them to submit daily contact logs and to get responses for privacy consents.
    • Emergency Exposure Management: Run a diagnostic report on affected users to identify potentially exposed users who might have interacted with the affected user. You can use multiple data sources to broaden the coverage of finding potential exposure. Review tracing systems for data sources provided by Contact Tracing to see whether these tracing systems meet your business needs. You can modify these tracing systems or set up a new tracing system for your data source. For more information, see Set up a tracing system for an exposure data source.
    • Safe Workplace Dashboard: View the trend of active cases and potentially exposed contacts over a given time period for a campus or location. You can also get alerts to determine when the number of active cases is higher than the threshold in a particular campus or location.
    • Emergency Self Report: A case is created automatically for a user who is reported to be in quarantine if no active case exists for the user at the time of reporting.
    • Employee Readiness Core:
      • Automatically adds or updates a user's health and safety requirement status when a user is identified as a potentially exposed contact in a case. This up-to-date information helps you evaluate the readiness of your potentially exposed users to return to the workplace.
      • Automatically adds or updates a user's privacy consent requirement status when a user responds to the privacy consent request. This up-to-date information helps you ensure that your users acknowledge the privacy consent before entering the workplace to facilitate contact tracing as desired.
    • Vaccination Status: Review a potentially exposed contact's vaccination status in the contact tracing visualization.

    Domain separation for the Contact Tracing application

    The Contact Tracing application supports domain separation at the Standard* level. For more information, see Domain separation and Contact Tracing. For a deeper understanding of the support levels, see Application support for domain separation.