Webinar Platform

 

EHFCN Webinars provide you with useful information, advice, insights, inspiration, and networking opportunities to help you improve health and care services for your organization in order to prevent and counter healthcare fraud and corruption

List of Webinars 2024

Friday 27th of September 2024 | 14:00-15:30

FBI overview of the Healthcare System and Healthcare Fraud Schemes in the United States

The FBI will present an overview of the United States healthcare system, the main healthcare fraud schemes against public and private healthcare programs, and FBI initiatives to detect and mitigate healthcare fraud.

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Friday 28th of June 2024 | 14:00-15:00

Cyprus: detecting and investigating a healthcare fraud case of a Pharmacist

Presentation of a detected fraud case of a Pharmacist claiming for dispensing drugs and consumables to beneficiaries of General Healthcare System.

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Friday 31th of May 2024 | 13:00-14:00

AI, Data and Healthcare. Impact of digitisation

Digitisation in healthcare requires digitisation in data. Data are required as a material for the development and use of AI-driven healthcare solutions. However, as a material, how different is it from other types of materials? Can it be raw, or should it be processed? Can data be considered a commodity and what are the rules for delving?

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Friday 29th of March 2024 | 14:00-15:00

How to decrease fraud in the healthcare sector: presentation of a game-changing and innovative tool in Estonia

Providing healthcare services in Estonia means you must be as transparent as possible. In Estonian Health Insurance Fund, they have built a system for healthcare providers where they can see all the services for example an hospital has provided and what was the cost of it. The system has a catch – everybody can see this data. This has made the system transparent and reduced the likelihood of fraud as we have two layers of protection – we are watching and your neighbour as well.

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Thursday 29th of February 2024 | 10:00-11:00

Current cybersecurity threat: top threats, major trends, threat actors and attack techniques

In 2023, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed a significant increase in both the variety and quantity of cyberattacks and their consequences. Maria Papaphilippou, Cybersecurity Officer at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), will comment for us the ENISA Threat Landscape report: she will explain us the current state of cybersecurity mainly within the European Union (EU). She will provide insights into emerging trends in terms of cybersecurity threats, threat actors’ activities as well as vulnerabilities and cybersecurity incidents.

 

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Friday 24th of November 2023 | 14:00-15:00

OLAF: missions & activities

The European Union budget finances a wide range of programmes and projects which improve the lives of citizens across the EU.The European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, investigates fraud against the EU budget, corruption and serious misconduct within the European institutions, and develops anti-fraud policy for the European Commission. Our speaker will explain us the missions and the activities of OLAF and will detail investigation matters.

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Thursday 29th of June 2023 | 14:00-15:00

Detection and beyond: making use of vast amounts of data in prevention of fraud in the Polish health sector

The Polish health sector has become a huge source of data in recent years, much of which is available in real time. That opens new possibilities in a field of fraud detection and prevention. Polish public health institutions have successfully employed various techniques to that data making fraud detection much more effective. However, ability to easily spot fishy activity creates problems of its own.

 

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Friday 23th of June 2023 | 14:00-15:00

European Artificial Intelligence Act: legal and ethical impact of AI, its challenges and risks

The European Union is proposing the first-ever legal framework on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which addresses the risks of AI and positions Europe to play a leading role in the world. This Webinar will provide a general overview of AI in Europe, its challenges and its fears.

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Thursday 25th of May 2023 | 14:00-15:00

Corruption during Covid-19: Trends, drivers, and lessons learned for reducing corruption in health emergencies

Based on a report from CHR. MICHELSEN INSTITUTE (independent development research institute in Norway), her author, Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado, will recount how corruption materialised during Covid-19, what drove it and how it impacted people.

 

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Friday 31th of March 2023 | 14:00-15:00

Fraud alerts: spotlight on fraud cases in Europe

This Webinar will present you 2 concrete current European fraud case examples. They are relevant to state and private medical cost coverage. These current fraud cases will certainly shed light on the new fraud methods used by fraudsters. We will also help you to better understand how to discover, analyze and solve these fraud cases.

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Tuesday 28th of February 2023 | 14:00-15:00

The effect of privacy legislation on making court rulings public: a different interpretation between Belgium and the Netherlands

Each country has a rather broad interpretation of the European privacy legislation. For example, some practices are prohibited in one country, while in another they are permitted.

In the Netherlands, as soon as a case of fraud by a service provider is proven, the public is entitled to be informed. This is not the case in Belgium. Why is that?

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Friday 27th of January 2023 | 14:00-15:00

2D Matrix in billing data: a fraud case in pharmacy

The aim of the Falsified Medicines European Directive regulation is to do everything possible to establish a system of unique identification, on the basis of which each medicine can be traced from production to the patient. This unique identification calls 2D Matrix. You will discover a pharmacy fraud case targeting 2D Matrix.

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Friday 16th of December 2022 | 14:00-15:00

Forecasting and prevention of fraud and fraud-trends: the importance of regular fraud alerts

This Webinar will present a 2022 show-case, revealing opportunities of prediction, prevention and benefits of fraud alerts. You will find out how fraud alerts can help predict and prevent fraud with a concrete fraud case example.

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Thursday 08th of December 2022 | 14:00-15:00

Conflicts of interest in medicine: the German perspective

What is a conflict of interest (COI)? Funding of medical research in Germany, role of pharmaceutical companies,
political influence, laws, publications, peer-review, guidelines, international comparisons.

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Friday 25th of November 2022 | 14:00-15:00

Portuguese new anti-corruption legislation: why is this regulation so innovative?

The goal of this webinar is to explain the new anti-corruption mechanisms enforced by the Portuguese government, in particular the whistleblowing channel, the whistleblower protection and the risk management, corruption and related offenses prevention plan. 

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Friday 21th of October 2022 | 14:00-15:00

Using AI to enhance data quality of paper billing by caregivers: a business case

A business case of how we implemented Artificial Intelligence to enhance the treatment of paper billing.
Description of the project.

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Friday 30th of September 2022 | 14:00-15:00

Corruption: what’s happening around the world?

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) from Transparency International ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Check out the latest corruption wins, scandals and predictions for each region of the world. 

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Friday 17th of June 2022 | 14:00-15:00

The Anti-counterfeiting Technology Guide of the EUIPO: an overview of the existing anti-counterfeiting technologies in the market

The Anti-counterfeiting Technology Guide was made by the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to explain to all types of stakeholders, in a clear and simple language, which technologies exist to protect goods against counterfeiting.

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Friday 29th of April 2022 | 14:00-15:30

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: tools, algorithms & concrete cases

The National Health Organization of Greece for health care provisions (EOPYY) and the National Health Fund (CNS ‘d’Gesondheetskeess’), 2 EHFCN-Members, show the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence in the fight against fraud in the healthcare sector, with very concrete applications and tools.

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Tuesday 29th of March 2022 | 13:15-14:00

How to enhance integrity in the health sector in changing societies: integrity at work

Muel will present different approaches of defining, understanding and managing integrity at work and finish with some takeaways.

He will focus on how (people in) organizations can understand/manage the integrity of their organizations/work (so he will not focus on fraud and corruption of consumers).

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Wednesday 30th of March 2022 | 10:00-11:00

How to enhance integrity in the health sector in changing societies: watching with patients’ eyes. Patients’ expectations and profitable moral hazards

Fraud and corruption risk analysts, in the field of health services, often work in de-contextualized scenarios, where relationship between doctors and patients lies in the background of organizational vulnerabilities and lack of rules. The webinar will offer insights and concrete suggestions on how to strengthen role perception on both sides and build ecological relationships.

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Friday 28th of January 2022 | 14:00-15:00

How does the IKZ (Information Hub Healthcare Fraud) work in the Netherlands?

Introduction of of the Informatie Knooppunt Zorgfraude (IKZ), an organisation that helps nine organisations in the Netherlands to combat healthcare fraud.
The IKZ has two goals: enrich signals of healthcare fraud and report trends and phenomena.

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Friday 10th of December 2021 | 14:00-15:00

Widespread corruption is weakening COVID-19 response: how can we deal with it?

Since its inception in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International has become the leading global indicator of public sector corruption. Their report reveals that persistent corruption is undermining health care systems and contributing to democratic backsliding amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Explanations & recommendations.

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Friday 24th of September 2021 | 12:30-14:00

Cybersecurity in Healthcare, GDPR and health rights

The first part of the Webinar will introduce ENISA, the EU agency for Cybersecurity, and will present a situational analysis of cybersecurity in healthcare, and will give an overview of the EU policy and regulatory framework. The second part of the Webinar will focus on GDPR and its impacts on health rights.

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Friday 25th of June 2021 | 14:00-15:00

Issues and challenges associated with Data Sharing: show-case and future development

This Webinar will present a number of challenges associated with the sharing of data, including obstacles to
releasing data, privacy and confidentiality problems, and informed-consent issues. 

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Friday 28th of May 2021 | 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: our future?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered. The benefits of AI are many. But questions have been raised about its potential impact on the health care sector due to the use of personal data, issues around ethics and data integrity concerns. What is true and what is false? We will discuss the current and future applications of AI in healthcare.

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Wednesday 17th of March 2021 | 10:00-11:00

Tips and tricks to stimulate appropriate care

Studies on waste in health care have shown that the largest share lies in the inappropriate use of health services. Our inspection services invest a lot in checking the reality and conformity of healthcare services, on the basis of well-established regulations. Tackling ‘inappropriate care’ however requires a different frame of reference, scientific evidence or indicators of good practice to carry out actions aimed at stimulating proper use of health services.

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Friday 19th of February 2021 | 14:00-15:00

Integrity and resilience of the health systems following the covid-19 pandemic

We attend all participants to be aware for the importance to have and develop integrity programmes on their organizations, and will explain how they can do it, particularly with reference to public procurement and its linked data treatment and processing, according to OECD recommendation (OECD 2020). We will demonstrate how we audit the integrity framework of the healthcare providers.

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Friday 22th of January 2021 | 10:00-11:30

The importance of early data access to combat fraud

The detection and prevention of healthcare fraud crucially depends on the availability of the necessary data. Delays and constraints inherent in long-standing and only partially digitalized health insurance systems can pose significant challenges to the fight against fraud, whereas more modern systems or digital transformation provide opportunities to increase the efficiency of our inspection efforts.

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Friday 4th of December 2020 | 14:00-15:00

Methodological approach to quantify and understand the healthcare fraud

The identified amounts of healthcare fraud increase each year. Fraud is by nature hidden and therefore difficult to assess. However, social protection organizations have to engage in a better estimate of their risk of fraud.

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Friday 27th of November 2020 | 14:00-15:00

Opioid abuse (and fraud)

This webinar gives an insight in the (ab)use of opioids in Belgium and France highlighting the specific case of Tramadol. Different fraud and abuse schemes will be disclosed with an assessment of available actions to tackle this issue.

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Friday 23th of October 2020 | 13:30-14:30

Assessing the impact of prevented infringements

Inspection services tackling errors, abuse and fraud in healthcare use a wide range of possible actions. Some as group communication or structural control measures are mainly implemented to prevent infringements. A question is raised on how to estimate the impact of these actions for the future. The gathered experience suggests that these deferred effects are still marginalized by third parties and underreported.

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