MedTech Roundup

A global healthcare organization had multiple nationwide recalls with over 1.8 million units in 2,500 facilities. Facing internal bandwidth constraints, Novasyte was hired as the partner-of-choice to manage the recall execution.

Novasyte is proud to welcome its newest member of the corporate team, Sam Elbaz, who officially started in her role of Marketing Content Specialist on Monday, November 6.

Learn more about Sam with her Q&A session below.

Novasyte is proud to welcome its newest member of the corporate team, Kenny Parks, who officially started in his role of Accounting Manager on Monday, October 30.

Learn more about Kenny with his Q&A session below.

In honor of Veterans Day, Novasyte is partnering with MVPvets to conduct a Veteran Re-careering Event in Carlsbad on Thursday, November 30 from 9am - noon.

The event brings veterans and transitioning military together with mentors from the med-tech industry. Attendees will participate in active one-on-one mentoring, industry-specific training, eLearning enrollment, and personal engagement with hiring managers and human resource professionals.

Novasyte is proud to welcome its newest member of the corporate team, Alexis Diaz, who officially started in her role of Payroll Specialist on Monday, October 23.

Learn more about Alexis with her Q&A session below.

Novasyte was recently selected as the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce's 2017 Small Business Awards winner for Excellence in Professional Services. 

This award is given to a service organization that has been in business for 10 years, currently has less than 100 full-time employees, and whose ethical business practices or business model provides outstanding service to the Carlsbad business community.

At Novasyte, we are always looking for ways to connect with our hard working consultants throughout the US and Canada. It was a pleasure reading all of the stories and unique experiences shared over the past month. 

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit their stories, and congratulations to our September Consultant Story Spotlight winner, Janice Freel.

Janice has been with Novasyte for nearly two years and it's easy to say that the team was moved by her story. Learn more about her inspirational experience below.

There has been a historical trend in the med-tech industry for organizations to explore avenues to hire temporary staff (specifically their clinical teams) under the 1099 model, leading to misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

Despite this serving as a potential entry-point into the established medical device or diagnostic markets, it is evident that misclassifying workers as independent contractors is a bad idea for business. This problem is often motivated by organizations attempting to keep costs down while unknowingly adopting an unnecessary amount of risk and liability.

This risk and liability extends beyond the walls of their organization to their partner organizations. It's important to have visibility into and assess the potential risk and liability when hiring 1099 clinical teams or when initiating a new partnership with one of these employers. With the U.S. Department of Labor more strictly enforcing the classification of employees, med-tech companies must critically evaluate the risks they are exposed to should charges be filed, an accident happen on-site, or if there's a violation of overtime laws, among other independent contractor risks.

We are pleased to announce that Novasyte and MVPvets, a nonprofit organization that empowers veterans and transitioning military to find careers in the life science industry, officially announced their partnership for 2017 and 2018.

MVPvets serves as a bridge between men and women transitioning out of the military and into life science companies by helping veterans build their knowledge of the industry and improve their job-seeking skills. They partner with select organizations in the life sciences industry to re-engage veterans into new and exciting career opportunities.

We continue to think about the Greater Houston Area, the Caribbean and Florida during this difficult time. At Novasyte, we are proud to say that one of our team members, Marissa Murphy, was on site with her search and rescue team supporting the much needed relief efforts in the most crucial 72 hours following the storm. We sat down with Marissa and interviewed her on her experience visiting the Greater Houston Area last week.