Nowak Dental Supplies announced that Matt Moran will be joining its team as National Director of Digital Sales.
Moran comes to the Nowak Dental team with more than 20 years in the dental industry.
"He will be creating the best team this industry has ever seen," Nowak Dental President Shawn Nowak says, "and we are excited about the future."
Now more than ever, burnout amongst healthcare providers is on the rise. Last year, in a study, The Physician’s Foundation found that nearly 80 percent of physicians are “sometimes, often or always” feeling burned out. Turnover in healthcare is also at an all-time high. Statistics show the healthcare space in the U.S. has the second-highest turnover rate at 20.6 percent, which is right behind the hospitality industry. Among some of the reasons cited for the high staffing turnover and burnout in healthcare are job-hopping of younger generations; work/life balance causing individuals to leave; pressure on healthcare system profitability limiting wage growth; and inflexibility of schedules to name a few. These factors are part of what is leading to the projected 2.3 million healthcare worker shortage that the U.S. could be facing by 2025.
Seeing a need for a solution, Boon was created. Boon is a proprietary marketplace app that connects licensed healthcare professionals to contract work opportunities on-demand. With the click of a button, a healthcare practice can hire a temporary worker knowing that they have been thoroughly screened, licenses are validated and background checks are conducted. Matches are created via a sophisticated algorithm that connects providers to practices based on factors such as technology utilization, past experience and personality traits.
“Healthcare providers entered their profession to care for others. They have invested time and money into earning their degrees to provide quality patient care,” Ryan Vet, the founder of Boon explains. “However, due to the rising demands and pressures in healthcare as well as the changes in the working environment of the United States as a whole, many providers are hanging up their white coats. Our goal is to change that.”
What is Boon?
Boon brings temporary healthcare staffing into the gig-economy. The gig-economy has most notably accelerated in spaces like ride-hailing as well as food and package delivery. Due to the complexities of an on-demand, vetted healthcare workforce, few companies have innovated in the temporary healthcare staffing space. Nearly seven to 10 percent of healthcare work is contracted out to temporary employees every day in the United States.
With provider burnout on the rise, flexibility in work while maintaining fair pay is more important than ever. Practices are up against higher turnover than before and are faced with a heavily burdened overhead when it comes to bringing in new temporary team members. In an effort to solve both the problems that providers and practices face, Boon has created a marketplace for licensed healthcare providers to work on their own schedule and for practices to hire providers with the click of a button via their web or mobile app. The simplicity of Boon’s platform helps to promote fair pay to providers, reduced overhead for hiring practices and unlock unprecedented flexibility for both practices and providers. With many traditional temporary staffing agencies, there are hidden fees, high multiples on hourly labor or subscriptions costs. Boon provides clear and transparent pricing for practices and competitive pay for providers at the time of the placement. This eliminates the need for lengthy negotiations between parties and a fast match.
Why Boon is Different Than Many Other Gig-Economy Platforms
Studies on compensation of those working in the gig-economy find that many workers are not able to make living wages. Boon is focused on promoting fair pay for providers while also lowering the cost to a hiring practice by utilizing technology to make the placement process more efficient. Additionally, Boon offers providers with several incentives, including opportunities for complementary continuing education credits, travel gift cards to take a much-needed vacation and even paid time off for volunteering, to name just a few.
Temporary Healthcare Staffing with Patient Care on the Forefront
Boon aims to encourage high-quality patient care through provider and practice accountability. All licensed professionals go through a thorough, third-party, background check in addition to license/credential verification. To continually attract and maintain high-quality providers, Boon has an in-depth rating system that is designed to ensure that the individuals on the platform continually strive to be the best providers they can be. This is in line with Boon’s motto of “practicing good.”
Access to the Boon Platform
Boon has officially launched its platform and it is available for immediate sign-ups of both practices and providers. Initially, Boon will be focused on the dental industry. In early 2020, Boon will move into both the veterinary and medical spaces. Boon will open individual cities and markets in the United States based on the demand in a given area. There is no cost to the practice or the provider to sign up. The only cost is incurred when a practice hires a provider.
Zahn Dental, the US laboratory business of Henry Schein, Inc., today announced that it will host its second educational expo from October 17-19, 2019. The three-day event, to be held at Hilton West Palm Beach in Florida, offers four unique educational tracks designed to teach laboratory technicians how to optimize business efficiency, learn more about removable and fixed prosthetics, and design for success. The event will also feature two keynote speakers, Rella Christensen RDH, PhD, Director, TRAC Research, who will address the future of zirconia, and Joseph Saburn, Esq., Managing Partner, Saburn Law Group, LLC, who will discuss how to manage the change imperative in the laboratory industry. Attendees will have ample opportunities to network with these and other speakers, as well as leading professionals in dentistry, including technicians, sales consultants, and fellow industry peers.
The four tracks are designed to help meet individual needs across the dental laboratory.
· Business Development Track – Topics include: Change Management—The Impact to You and Your Team; TurboCharge Your Lab with Content Marketing; Find out Who is Controlling the Sales Conversation; How to Hire, Motivate, Develop, and Maintain a Great Dental Laboratory Team; Human Resources: Best Practices and Tools from the Fortune 500; Getting Through the Door and Opening New Accounts; and Found Money: Creating New Revenue Streams Through Your Current Digital Outfit
· Removable Prosthetics Track – Topics include: Deep Dive: Printing Digital Dentures on the Kulzer cara Print 4.0; Post-Processing Techniques for Printed Dima Dentures; Lucitone 199: More Powerful Than Ever; Milled vs. Printed: A Comparative Review of Outsourced Digitally Fabricated Dentures; Adding Digital Partial Production to your Lab: Featuring Duraflex CAD and VisiClear CAD; Developing Advanced Digital Dental Materials Demanded by Dental Professionals; Milling Reinvented: Increase Profitability of Your Lab with vhf; and Digital Dentures—a viable alternative for saving time and money in your laboratory
· Fixed Prosthetics Track – Topics include: Understanding Milling Tools: The "Business End" of your Digital Workflow; The Cutting Edge with Noritake Katana; Zirlux 16+: Superior Results for Your Laboratory with Minimal Effort; Improving Your Workflow Efficiency with Amann Girrbach; Prosthodontic Protocols for the Modern Dental Technician; The Sky's the Limit with the Skeleton Build-up Technique; Simple Keys to Sintering Success; and MillBox 2019: Next-Generation CAM Has Arrived
· Design for Success Track – Topics include: Dental Systems 2019; TriLor Restorative Metal-Free Solutions; Surgical Execution with 3Shape Implant Studio; Aligning Yourself with 3Shape Ortho; Digital Denture Design Workshop; and EnvisionTEC presents the Future of Digital Dentistry: Implementing the 3D Printer into the Dental Workflows
In addition to each track’s unique courses and speakers, the Forum will also feature a golf outing to be held on October 17, followed by cocktail receptions on the evening of October 18 and October 19. An exhibit area will also be available throughout the show featuring top suppliers in the industry who will demonstrate new products and innovative solutions.
“At Zahn, we recognize the importance of quality education from industry experts to help our customers navigate rapid changes in the dental laboratory industry,” said Rita Acquafredda, President, Global Laboratory Business, Zahn Dental. “By attending the expo, technicians can rely on us to deliver best-in-class industry expertise and a variety of solutions and educational resources to help them grow and succeed.”
To register for this event and other educational offerings from Zahn Dental, please visit www.zahndigital.com/expo.
