Common Themes from Medical Device Manufacturers

As the healthcare industry moves toward value-based care, payers are increasingly concerned with clinical outcomes. Health plans are finding that they need to leverage all clinical and administrative data, in addition to claims data, to improve member health and optimize reimbursement within value-based payment models. Harmonizing data across the healthcare continuum presents a significant challenge due to the variety of disconnected data elements that must be connected to get a true 360-degree view of member health. Before healthcare organizations can effectively benefit from the data’s value, the data itself needs to be normalized to achieve semantic interoperability.

Strong evidence has shown that Safe Patient Handling and Mobility reduces patient-handling related injuries among healthcare workers. Research also suggests SPHM promotes early mobilization and helps reduce preventable hospital-acquired complications among intensive care unit patients.

1 in 5 small businesses will suffer a cyber breach this year.81% of all breaches happen to small and medium sized businesses.97% of breaches could have been prevented with today’s technology.35% report ransomware attack on cloud-based applications, including Google Apps, Office 365 and Dropbox. 63% report a ransomware attack lead to business-threatening downtime or closure. More and more, ransomware has emerged as a major threat to healthcare. Watch this brief 30 minute educational webinar, presented by Fernando Sosa, Managing Partner & HIPAA-certified technology consultant at HaonTech.com, LLC WorryFreeMD, to learn everything you need to know to keep your practice safe from hackers.

Employee health benefit options are always changing and evolving. Make sure you are up to speed and providing the highest quality and cost-effective health benefits. This on-demand webinar will take you through many of the hot topics that are being discussed in employee benefits. We will give you a brief summary in each area, highlighting the most import pros and cons of each topic.