11 AM EST

Keynote Speaker Sam Hester
SPONSORED BY OPTUM RX
Visual Storytelling Humanizes Healthcare 
Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Her illustrations are one example of how advocating for improving the connection between a patient and the healthcare system can deliver better treatment and outcomes. Hester shares how illustrating small details of her mother's medical story as she struggled with mysterious symptoms alongside her Parkinson's and dementia led to more empathy, understanding, communication and peace of mind.

Keynote Speaker Drew Mendelow
SPONSORED BY OPTUM RX
Type 1 From Day 1
When Drew Mendelow was diagnosed with diabetes, he was overwhelmed by the “math class” involved in managing his condition. Calculating insulin, counting carbs and tracking food was complicated for the teenager. He was inspired to design the app T1D1 (which stands for Type 1 from Day 1) with a specific goal in mind: to simplify diabetes management by helping people keep track of their blood glucose levels, insulin injections, and carbohydrate intake. To make sure that the app was meeting people’s needs, Drew gathered feedback from healthcare professionals, people in the diabetes online community, and a group of over 70 online app testers. To date, T1D1 has approximately 41,000 downloads in over 50 countries.

12:05 PM EST

Break / Visit Virtual Sponsor Booths

12:20 PM EST

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

SESSION 1 – The Missing Link: Mental Health in the Workplace

Leslie Hammer, Ph.D, Co-Director, Oregon Healthy Workforce Center; Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Hammer’s talk will explore mental health, its impact on employee health, wellbeing, and the workplace. The talk will emphasize evidence-based and practical strategies that can be taken to protect and support employees’ mental health and well-being. She will focus on ways in which an organization can help reduce work and family stress by facilitating both formal and informal workplace supports.

SESSION 2 – Collaboration: What Really Creates Health?

Steve Batchelor, MS, Regional Director of Community Health & Wellness, WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital; Alice Yoder, RN, MSN,Executive Director of Community Health, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Daily, employees face a myriad of barriers preventing them from reaching maximum productivity. These barriers are an obstacle for employers. Learn through a case study how two health systems came together with the intention of impacting these barriers and lowering health disparities by expanding their work in social determinants of health. These health systems realized they were unable to see real outcomes alone, but through partnership, including employers, were able to see these outcomes in food insecurity, transportation, housing, education and financial health. They will talk about their partnership, their relationships with like-minded partners and the results they are achieving.

Joining this presentation is a seasoned labor lawyer to advise employers on ways to communicate better with their employees.

12:30 PM EST

Registration
SPONSORED BY BLUEPRINT MEDICINES

1:00 PM EST

Opening Remarks

1:05 PM EST

Keynote Speaker Dr. Sampson Davis
SPONSORED BY CVS HEALTH
The Pact
Dr. Sampson Davis was born in Newark, New Jersey, the fifth of six children. Things were not easy for Davis growing up. He lived in an area of high crime and poverty, surrounded by drug use and gangs. Davis, along with his friends Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins, decided they wanted something more from life and set out to become doctors. They succeeded in their shared dream  - they are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors. This is a story about the power of friendship. Of joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most…together.

2:05 PM EST

Networking Break
SPONSORED BY COLOR HEALTH

2:20 PM EST

General Session - Building Resiliency
SPONSORED BY EMBOLD HEALTH

Part 1: Panel Discussion
Lydia Coutre, Reporter, Crains Cleveland Business
Resilience is a key characteristic that helps employees tackle stress, a competitive job market, workplace conflicts, and address challenges on the job. More resilient employees are able to withstand adversity and bounce back and grow despite life’s downturns and challenges. Building a more resilient workforce is key to offsetting uncertainty, reducing stress and adapting to change. But how to you build resilience?
Panelists: Dr. Stephen Pratt, Senior Medical Director, Magellan Health, Heidi Peterson from Headspace, and Dr. Andreas Michaelides, Chief of Psychology, Noom

The panel will present on these subtopics, bringing many areas of resiliency together:
• Leadership – Learn how employers can lead by example and set appropriate goals and expectations for employees, check in frequently, create more proactive communication, offer valuable feedback, and track employee progress.
• Authenticity & Intentionality – Learn how active listening, empathy, showing gratitude and support, and realistic optimism are important traits for organizations to model for their staff.
• Environment– Learn how to encourage employee expression; discover what triggers employees and how those triggers can be avoided; focus employees on the here and now and teach staff to concentrate on both autonomy and flexibility.

The panel will also answer audience questions.

Part 2: Resilience Through Self Trust
Featured Speaker: Katie Goodman
Being able to be professional, think on your feet, be flexible and cool under pressure are both characteristics of improv comedians and a resilient workforce. By learning techniques that improv comedians use to hone their craft, today’s employers can help create a more creative, courageous, and confident workforce.

Katie Goodman is an award-winning musical comic, actress, director, writer, author, and speaker. She is the author of Improvisation For The Spirit and uses the techniques of improvisation to lead a more creative, spontaneous and courageous life. She encourages an open mind, a willingness to deviate from your normal responses and behaviors, and an enthusiasm for the ridiculous.

4:25 PM EST

Closing Remarks

4:35 PM EST

Cocktail Hour in Exhibit Hall
SPONSORED BY INCLUDED HEALTH

7:30 AM EST

Registration
SPONSORED BY BLUEPRINT HEALTH

7:35 AM EST

Networking Breakfast
SPONSORED BY VSP

8:20 AM EST

Opening Remarks

8:35 AM EST

Keynote Speaker Connie Podesta
SPONSORED BY UNITEDHEALTHCARE
Endless Possibilities. Endless Success.
With laugh-out-loud humor, killer persuasive strategies and her amazing insights into human nature, Human Relations expert Connie Podesta will challenge and empower you with the knowledge you need to get along better with people. Connie will take you right inside the minds and personalities of the people you deal with every day - bosses, colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family so YOU can ACT, rather than REACT to whatever life throws your way. You will learn how to negotiate differences, influence behaviors, change attitudes, and overcome objections so you can create an amazing network of PEOPLE who have one common goal: to willingly help you GET THE JOB DONE in any market condition or economy! Get ready for less stress and more success!

9:45 AM EST

Networking Break
SPONSORED BY HINGE HEALTH

10:05 AM EST

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

SESSION 1 – Managing Chronic Disease
SPONSORED BY CIRRUSMD & CHC WELLBEING
Jason Parrott, SVP, Vida Health
Lisa Shah, Chief Medical Officer at Twin Health
We’re already in the midst of a chronic disease crisis in the US as nearly 40% of the country has 2 or more chronic physical and mental health conditions. Add to that the rising costs of staying healthy — things like healthy food, preventive care, and medications and you’ve got a perfect storm brewing. Is there time to prevent it before system-wide healthcare costs skyrocket even more? This presentation will detail how: economic downturns make social determinants even worse; financial insecurity contributes to mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, and stress, leading to negative health behaviors; and well-trained, human providers can adapt healthy patterns to any budget.

SESSION 2 - Responsive Benefit Strategies
SPONSORED BY EYEMED & INCLUDED HEALTH
This presentation brings together approaches to maintaining and advancing benefits strategies using data.

Part 1 - Data-driven Employee Health Trends for 2023
Jennifer Jones, Population Health Practice Leader, Springbuk
Learn how shifts in a workforce’s needs and resources shape the ever-changing landscape of healthcare. By understanding the health trends that can shape benefits plans, employers are empowered to design the most cost-effective healthcare strategies, plan for future cost drivers, and understand the trends related to benefit offerings. This session will reveal four trends identified through data that impact future benefit designs.

Part 2 – Beating the Claim: Cost-containment strategies
Codi Gill, Vice President, Client Services, TouchCare
With employee healthcare spending rising year over year, we will explore what organizations can do to reduce claims and keep their population healthy. Solutions range from evaluating new strategies for cost containment; utilizing a personalized approach to care; and providing employees with healthier options & outcomes.

SESSION 3 – Primary Care Enhances Outcomes

SPONSORED BY ASTELLAS & COLOR HEALTH
Evidence shows that primary care translates to healthier, happier employees and lowers overall healthcare cost.

Part 1 - Why is Primary Care all the Rage?
Bruce Hochstadt, Executive Vice President Growth & Strategy, Marathon Health
Healthcare providers in the US would agree that the goal of healthcare is to create positive health outcomes for the patient. But the bridge between healthcare services and the goal of patient wellbeing remains elusive. Traditional US healthcare does not reliably deliver wellbeing or value. It’s not personal, and it doesn’t address what people truly and deeply care about. This session will define the value of an advanced primary care model, how employers can drive engagement to net better health outcomes and savings and, what employers should look for when looking to partner with a primary care vendor.

Part 2 - Retention+Healthcare+Cost = Value?
Dr. Donna Baldwin, Chief Quality and Innovation Officer, and Jeff Voss, Vice President, Employer Markets, CirrusMD
Through a study conducted by CirrusMD, learn that employees who use their virtual primary care benefit stay with the employer at a higher rate than those who don’t. But it gets even better: the employee group with the greatest retention rate is the uninsured worker group -- the employees receiving a telemedicine benefit for free, who otherwise would not have health insurance coverage. This study explains the usage, value, employee response, and types of care being delivered. Discover how employers can fund a healthcare model so that fairness and equity live in harmony with fiscal responsibility.

11:05 AM EST

Networking Break
SPONSORED BY HINGE HEALTH