2021 Agenda

[Workshop] Virtual Communication Mastery for Professionals

Leading communication expert and five-time TED speaker Julian Treasure reveals the tips and tricks of making a great impression in virtual communication, especially if selling, presenting to groups or delivering webinars. Unmissable for anyone who uses videoconferencing.

Introductory Opening Remarks

Opening remarks from Jonathan Edelheit, JD, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Healthcare Resources, HEALTHCARE ЯEVOLUTION®

[KEYNOTE] The Three M’s of EX: An Employee Experience Strategy That Delivers a Healthy Culture and Improved Performance

Culture expert and EX strategist Shane Green will provide insights into understanding the dynamics of culture, how to build the right employee strategy for your organization, and some meaningful action steps you can undertake in 2021 to improve your culture and elevate performance.

What Should be Keeping you up at Night? Legal and Compliance Nightmares

Many employers are not even aware of legal pitfalls, compliance issues, regulations and potential fines. Our leading experts will share with you: rules, regulations, compliance and potential fines that you should be focusing on but are not even aware of.

Family Benefits & Empowering Women in the Workplace: Women & Family Focused Healthcare and Benefits

Learn about new, innovative solutions and offerings that solve the challenges around caregiving, fertility, childcare, and more that organizations are rolling out to support women and families.

Virtual Coffee Break

Creating a Comprehensive Well-Being Strategy for Your Organization

Learn how you can assess your current well-being culture and offer actionable tips and real-life examples so you can design a strategy to build a positive well-being culture.

Onsite, Near Site, and Shared Clinics – the Future of Healthcare Delivery

Learn how you can create trust with employees and plan members and truly create behavior change, while using the onsite, near-site, and shared clinics to roll out transformational and innovative solutions with high utilization and engagement and better outcomes.

Virtual Lunch Break

[KEYNOTE] Return to Work like United and Delta Opened the Skies

Get insight into what the rest of the year and 2022 will actually look like and what will be required of employers and let our experts provide you with the turnkey strategies that will save you months of stress and anxiety!

Centers of Excellence | Cutting Costs and Unnecessary Procedures: Gaining Amazing Results and Outcomes - A Global Healthcare Accreditation Summit

Learn how leading organizations and healthcare providers are breaking down state and country borders, and disrupting the traditional surgical delivery model.

COVID Angst – Stress and Resilience

Learn what employers are doing to fight stress and infuse their employees, the lifeblood of the company with resilience.

Diversity and Inclusion – Rebooting your Culture

Learn how the most cutting-edge companies are shaking things up and reimagining how they approach diversity and inclusion.

Transforming the Misaligned Incentives that Drive Waste, Overuse & Misuse in Healthcare

This expert panel will share recent examples that have resulted in eliminating wasteful spending for employers.

Key Strategies to Implement for Long-Term Viability of Your Medical Plan

Find out how a self-funded group of 26 private Florida education employers uses key strategies to provide long-term, high quality, cost-effective healthcare benefits to their employees.

Introductory Opening Remarks

Introductory and opening remarks from Jonathan Edelheit, JD, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Healthcare Resources, HEALTHCARE ЯEVOLUTION®

[KEYNOTE] Wellness Lessons from Counter-Terrorism (Yes, Really)

Leveraging his expertise from years in counter-terrorism, Daniel will share insightful lessons and data on the importance of social support networks in influencing and changing behavior, the critical importance of who the messenger is, and then how those principles can be applied to wellness programs.

[Q&A] An Interview with Peter Hames, Co-founder & CEO of Big Health

Tune in and hear how Big Health has helped many employers such as Amerigas, Hartford, Boston Medical Center, and others to create happier, more engaged, and productive employees through helping them sleep better and addressing mental health.

[Q&A] An Interview with Erik Fielbrandt, Head of Total Rewards at Covenant Healthcare

Tune in to learn how precision nutrition, technology, and engagement can change behavior and provide amazing results for employees with metabolic disease and diabetes. Powered by: DayTwo

[Q&A] An interview with Lihan Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of MiRXES

Tune in to learn how MiRXES, helped solve Singapore’s COVID crisis, made Singapore one of the fastest recovering countries returning to a new normal, and their future outlook on COVID testing and diagnostics.

[Q&A] An Interview with Patrick Pakan, Founder & CEO of AKLOS Health

Tune in to learn more about MSK, and a new revolutionary remote solution that has a greater impact and results than existing MSK solutions in the marketplace.

The Ultimate Engagement Tool

Such a tool exists. And that's what this session is all about. Bring your toughest questions because this tool is so elegant that it will only take about 15 minutes for you to totally understand it and even download it yourself right on the spot.

[Q&A] Interview with Chris Bijou, Founder and CEO of Internet of Everything Corp

Learn from Chris Bijou why the Cloud doesn’t work for healthcare technology.

Virtual Coffee Break

Employer-Driven Models in Pharmacy Benefits & Specialty Drugs

Hear from leading employers that have taken bold steps to disrupt the current business models.

Self-Funding: The innovation and Transformation Roadmap

Learn how now is the time to reject the status quo, and go all in on big impact and cost reductions.

Virtual Lunch Break

[KEYNOTE] Improving Outcomes: A Path to Metabolic Disease Remission with Precision Nutrition

With COVID-19 shining a light on the inequality in healthcare, Employers must move to address this in their benefits programs; from increasing the effectiveness of their metabolic disease interventions to supporting vulnerable employees through better care. Precision nutrition which uses gut microbiome sequencing and machine learning to create individual Food Prescriptions™ meets employees where they are and takes into account cultural eating preferences. This innovation is changing the paradigm when it comes to engagement and outcomes for diabetes and metabolic disease care.

Using Technology and Data to Drive Better Behavioral Health During COVID-19 and Beyond

In this session, you'll hear how Kristin Tugman, Prudential's VP of Health and Productivity Analytics and Consulting Practice, helped the organization take a proactive approach to improving access to care for its disability insurance claimants. She'll be joined by NeuroFlow COO and Co-Founder Adam Pardes.

The Switch: Solutions that Saved us Big!

Learn about employers and brokers that tossed their existing solutions and vendors in the trash, made a big switch and had a big impact and won big!

The Future of Behavioral Health – Creating a Better Eco-system that Provides Quicker and Better Access to Care

Learn how employers, brokers, consultants and innovative providers are creating more resilient employees by creating a new and improved model and improving health, productivity and business values.

Virtual Coffee Break

The Mental Health Squeeze: The COVID Crisis

Learn different ways to approach different social classes, generations (age), race and what’s the most effective for the most vulnerable of your population.

Data Analytics and Transparency – The Future of Healthcare and Benefits

Learn how technology is transforming access, utilization, transparency, and costs.

Reimagining Corporate Culture: Where do we go from here?

Learn from leading employers what innovative solutions and ideas they have implemented to start rebuilding their corporate culture.

Digital Healthcare Transformation

Learn what virtual tools are being deployed that have the biggest impact.

Reimagining Costs, Culture, and Care – An Employer’s 2021 Vision

Learn how employers are adjusting in 2021 and addressing lowering healthcare costs, finding better ways to deliver care and rebuilding their corporate culture as well as how they approach employee well-being.

[Workshop] Batman and Robin: Employer & Consultation Collaboration an Unstoppable Duo

Now, more than ever Employer’s need to partner and dive in from the deep end with their collaboration with consultants to build a better, stronger and more competitive benefits. Better communication needs to happen and both parties need to really listen to the others advice, challenges and solutions. This session will explore the reasons and value to build a strong and competitive benefits package, the Benefits Specialist and Consultant roles, and the value in the collaboration. We will also review specific aspects of the bid plan document and bid process. This is a Win-Win for Benefit Specialist and Consultant’s to collaborate and work together, resulting in a better benefits package for employees.

Introductory Opening Remarks

Introductory and opening remarks from Jonathan Edelheit, JD, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Healthcare Resources, HEALTHCARE ЯEVOLUTION®

[KEYNOTE] COVID and Beyond: Why Diagnostics are Critical to a Healthier Workplace

For more than three decades, Ron Zwanziger has been driven to revolutionize health care and move major health diagnostics and monitoring from clinical labs to the point of need – meeting patients where they are. While the benefits of rapid testing with accurate results is clear, the pandemic exposed an existing gap and the critical need to combine testing sensitivity with speed to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. As the country and economy reopens, it becomes important for workplaces to provide testing to employees to safely re-enter the workplace.

Employer Playbook for Virtual Healthcare and Benefits

Learn from leading employers where it makes sense to make a virtual move and where it doesn’t.

Innovation in Benefits, Culture and Wellbeing During a Pandemic

As organizations emerge from the crisis of 2020 and start focusing on new strategies, new benefits, learn how they are changing their approach for 2021 and 2022, what are the most meaningful healthcare and benefits they will offer and how will they reimagine the delivery of those benefits.

Virtual Coffee Break

Embracing, Engaging and Leading the Evolution of Employee Health & Well-being

This session will bring together leaders who are part of creating the innovation in employee health and wellness.

Medical Tourism Forum

Learn about the state of the industry, changes and adaptations, and more.

Virtual Lunch Break

[KEYNOTE] Conscious Listening for Happiness, Effectiveness and Well-being

In this rich and transformational keynote, five-time TED speaker Julian Treasure reveals the secrets, and the benefits, of mastering conscious listening at work and at home.

Reimagining the Benefits Practice

Learn what areas of healthcare, well-being, and benefits should companies focus on implementing.

Innovation in the Benefits Suite and Employer Healthcare & Benefits Delivery Failure – Change is Here

Learn in what ways employer’s should be leaning in and what are some immediate solutions and changes you can make that will make a difference. Learn how leading brokers, consultants and agents are reimagining their approach to healthcare and benefits.

Virtual Coffee Break

Future of Medical Tourism in a Post-pandemic World

Listen as industry experts predict the future of the industry and where the opportunities are, what the challenges are, and how to overcome them.

Innovation in Second Opinions & Cancer Care

Learn how remote second opinions are reducing unnecessary medical procedures, providing alternative diagnosis and how a large portion for surgeries are unnecessary.

Bidencare 2021-2022 What Does the Future Hold?

Learn what to expect and how to create a strategy around these coming changes.

[WORKSHOP] Building a Resilient Organization

Mission. Value. Purpose. These are core elements that prospective customers and employees are looking out for in organizations. Current employees are looking out for transparency as well as stability without knee-jerk reactions; they want proof that their employers prioritize their safety, health and well-being, and they want convincing evidence that their employers are worth working with for the long haul. Learn how organizations are implementing new and dynamic frameworks that are validating their corporate policies in safety, health and well-being, and how they leverage these to score big with employees and customers—both current and prospective.

[KEYNOTE] Welcome to the Apollo Mission, Healthcare Edition

Learn how two employers, Prudential Financial and Linde, have revolutionized their approach to managing benefits. Via their use of an employer-controlled “lockbox,” benefits leaders at these companies broke down barriers that previously constrained them. It is still early days, but these employers are on the path to being fierce consumers of healthcare, who secure better care for their populations at drastically lower prices.

Inclusive Healthcare & Well-Being

This session will examine how the leading, progressive organizations are transforming what healthcare and well-being benefits they provide to be more inclusive. How can benefits play an essential role in making employees feel safe, included and feel tremendously loyal and loving towards their employee.

C-Suite Leadership, Culture, Health and Well-Being – Prioritizing what Matters

Learn from one of the leading self funded employers, Marine max how they have reduced deductibles every year for 10 years for employees and their health insurance costs have remained flat with no rate increases for the last 6 years.

Self-Funding: Innovation or Science Fiction?

Everyone says they are innovative and disruptive. This session will dive into the “mess” of evaluating hundreds of solution providers and trying to find which ones are actually going to work and which are pipedreams and pure science fiction. Take a look into the crystal ball to know which solutions you should be racing to adopt and which you should be running away from. Now is the time to reject the status quo and go all in.

Save Billions, Increase Participation Five-Fold, and Put $300 Million Into Employee Pockets – A Cleveland Clinic Case Study

Learn the secret 6+2 “Healthy Choice Program” that Cleveland Clinic developed and launched for their employees that transformed employee health and well-being, resulting in over $1 billion saved for the organization and over $300 million in employee pockets. In one of the most inspiring stories we have ever done, discover how a top-down leadership approach and big incentives entirely transformed the DNA of the organization and employees into one of resiliency and unmatched well-being.

Virtual Lunch Break

15 Mindful Minutes for You - Brought to You by Lyra Health

These next 15 minutes are exclusively for you and your well-being. Make use of this time to disconnect, recharge, and come back to your center. Healthcare Revolution will be waiting for you when you get back, so set your intention and let this guided meditation session rejuvenate your mind.

Comprehensive Well-Being Strategies for 2022 and Beyond

Learn how you can assess your current well-being culture and make adjustments or changes to offer the best of the best. Learn the importance of creating community and social connection between employees and how two organizations are trailblazing in making this happen.This session is for organizations looking to improve the employee experience and increase engagement, well-being, and ultimately, performance.

Why You Are Paying 20,000% More for Less Effective Prescription Drugs

Learn why the marketing of the most prescribed “new and innovative” medications your employees take for chronic conditions is all science fiction. In many cases, employers are paying up to 200X more for drugs that are equally as effective than their predecessors. Learn how pharmaceutical companies are not concerned about preventing medical conditions or the health of your employees, but instead are manipulating data and creating the illusion new drugs are better than older versions with the sole purpose of driving shareholder profits.

Why Personalization is Key to Successful Population Health: An Interview with Hon Dr. David Shulkin, 9th Secretary of US Department of Veterans Affairs

Hear Hon. Dr. David Shulkin share key insights from his experience running the Veterans Administration, the nation's largest integrated health system. For employers trying to build a healthy workforce, learn why it makes sense to reach for "moonshots" rather than incremental changes that show limited results. When it comes to managing challenging chronic conditions like diabetes, traditional one-size-fits-all approaches miss the mark. Listen as Dr. Shulkin discusses the power of microbiome science and why personalized solutions like DayTwo are key to lasting population health.

[Q&A] How to Steer Your Plan Design: Leveraging Your Data with Abett

Q&A with Diana Dimon, Senior Manager, Benefits at Linde.

[Q&A] Persistence Pays Off: Unlocking Healthcare Data for Employers

Q&A with Daniel Reber Director, Corporate Employee Benefits at Prudential Financial.

MSK - The #1 Area Employers Want Solutions For and Savings In

This session will examine MSK, the existing models, and solutions in the market and show you what’s working and what’s not. Discover how the incentives are misaligned and how many MSK solutions focus not on creating savings for employers but profits for the MSK provider, focused more on driving shareholder value and returns then the health of your employees.

Why Fertility Benefits that Cover all Genders are a Must-have for 2022

Conversations around fertility benefits usually focus on addressing female infertility. And while that is a critical piece of the puzzle, people of all genders need support from fertility and family-forming resources. For around 30% of different-sex couples experiencing infertility, male-factor issues are the primary cause. Trans and non-binary people may have specific fertility needs but struggle to find physicians with the right experience. And fertility knowledge and support are important throughout life — not just in someone’s reproductive years. In this session, we’ll discuss how your company can provide inclusive fertility benefits that cover all genders — and ages — in 2022.

Mental Health – The Boiling Point

Discover how you should shift your perceptions, what to offer your employees, and who you should be working with. Through this session, you’ll learn how to approach different social classes, generations age, genders, and races and what’s most effective for the most vulnerable groups within your workforce. We’ll show you the path to comprehensive and inclusive mental health solutions for all.

Adapting Your Business To a Post-COVID World

Join us for this short discussion of the new CDC guidance as we explore options for integrating these current recommendations while we continue to prioritize the safety, health, and well-being of our businesses.

End of Day 1

[WORKSHOP] Case Study | State of North Carolina Financial Wellness Program: Sensible Saving Sessions

The financial stress that affects employees has been further highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic downturn. Many employers now recognize the significance of financial wellness as part of a broader employee wellness strategy and a critical factor in recruiting and retaining talent. Learn how the North Carolina Office of State Human Resources developed and implemented a successful financial wellness program to assist employees across various financial topics.

[KEYNOTE] All In: How the Best Leaders Create a Culture of Belief that Drives Big Results

This presentation outlines how high-performance organizations deliver extraordinary results by creating a vibrant, productive culture where people believe that what they do matters and that they can make a difference.

Families First, Top Priorities Organizations are Adopting for In-Person and Remote Workforces

As we step into year three of the pandemic, no other benefits have had such importance as those that focus around prioritizing employees’ families. This session will share what leading organizations are offering and rolling out to employees in the areas of fertility, childcare, eldercare and other health benefits that focus on women and their families. With more and more employees working from home, and many companies postponing return to work initiatives, companies are recognizing that productivity and profits are tied directly to the benefits that help employees out at home. Learn how these benefits are your ultimate weapon against the great resignation.

Corporate Well-Being that Actually Works

This session helps employers wade through the swamp of solutions. Benefits and corporate wellness departments are overworked and underfunded without the luxury of exploring and making mistakes. Tune in as some of the leading organizations, who have done your “homework” for you, share key ideas on why you should be prioritizing wellness solutions in 2022 and 2023.

Collaborative Care: Clinical Best Practices in Worksite Healthcare

In this session, panelists will take the audience on a journey through the development and implementation of a collaborative care strategy via worksite health centers. Through real examples, patient stories, lessons learned, and actual results, attendees will learn the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ and how they can leverage a different approach to employee health – one that actually reduces costs while improving health outcomes.

Wellness Worries: Designing A Compliant Wellness Program Amidst a Sea of Regulations

While properly designed wellness programs can produce a meaningful ROI for employer health plan sponsors, the path to a legally compliance wellness plan is treacherous and fraught with peril. During this session, we’ll examine the various laws that may impact an employer’s wellness plan design. We will also provide an update on the latest developments and case law governing this space.

Virtual Lunch Break

15 Mindful Minutes for You - Brought to You by Lyra Health

These next 15 minutes are exclusively for you and your well-being. Make use of this time to disconnect, recharge, and come back to your center. Healthcare Revolution will be waiting for you when you get back, so set your intention and let this guided meditation session rejuvenate your mind.

[KEYNOTE] From Population to Precision Health: 6 Ways Healthcare Will Change in a Post-COVID World

Join Hon. Dr. David Shulkin as he discusses the top 6 healthcare trends in the workforce today and how executives can best care for their employee populations. Hear the role microbiome science, AI, and virtual care play in improving health outcomes for chronic conditions like diabetes, prediabetes, and clinical obesity. When employees have access to benefits that match their biology and lifestyle, they stick with them. Learn the key considerations companies should be taking into account when planning for the future.

Medical Tourism, the Solution for Hight Cost Medical Care

This session will show how self-funded employers are saving up to 50% on major surgeries and healthcare costs without compromising on, and sometimes improving, quality through overseas healthcare providers. Find out from employers who have successfully implemented medical travel why it turned their corporate culture around and why employees preferred to go abroad for care as opposed to receiving it locally.

[Q&A] An Interview with Gabriela Perez, Chief Commercial Officer of Big Health

Tune in and hear how Big Health has helped many employers such as Amerigas, Hartford, Boston Medical Center, and others to create happier, more engaged, and productive employees through helping them sleep better and addressing mental health.

[PRIVATE VIRTUAL SUMMIT] Building a Company Culture to Support Your Employee's Well-Being

The 2020's have been a period of uncertainty with an ongoing pandemic, social unrest, and global uncertainty. This type of prolonged stress could lead to burnout, reduced productivity, and, ultimately, high job turnover in the workplace. Creating an open culture around mental health at work allows people to seek support without fear of judgment as well as normalizes the conversation around mental health. Join us as we discuss how to create a supportive work environment by transforming your workplace culture to improve employees’ well-being and ensure a mentally healthy workplace.

Prioritizing Employee and Customer Safety, Health, and Well-being

Learn how some of the leading organizations are optimizing their covid strategies as well as resiliency. These organizations improve their policies and best practices to boost productivity and profitability by leveraging, innovation, accreditation. Discover the innovative ways these companies are doing things differently and helping their employees and customers crush it!

The Future of Healthcare and Well-Being

Listen to top leaders in healthcare discuss the future of healthcare and well-being. In this session, they’ll share how their organizations are focusing on what matters most and will have the greatest impact in the future. Understand how they have adapted and what programs and changes they havinvested in for the future.

Healthy is Hard, Equitable Health is Harder: What it Takes for Employers to Achieve Equitable and Inclusive Wellness Outcomes

How do we create healthy behavior change at scale? And how do we ensure that the levers we use cut across demographics, psychographics, health risk profiles, income, and circumstance? How do we share negative health news in a way that resonates? What tools can we use to promote access that transcends individual barriers to care? This session will unpack these complex issues and provide the audience with tangible take-home insights on leveraging behavioral tools, technology, and incentives to get equitable healthcare right.

The Great Resignation

Join world renowned culture expert Shane Green as he talks about company culture and how the “Great Resignation” is impacting business in 2022.

End of Day 2

[WORKSHOP] The PBM Games

This workshop will show you all the hidden secrets and tricks PBMs use to take as much money as they can from you. Also, learn how you can save from 8% to 27% a year on that “50%”of your healthcare spend. Imagine if you could be saving 4% to 13.5% a year on your total healthcare spend and how that could lower your healthcare costs by almost 100% in the next few years.

[WORKSHOP] Proving Mental Health Parity for Provider Networks

Federal and state regulators are ramping up enforcement of mental health parity compliance for provider networks and reimbursement, but guidance on how to prove compliance remains scarce. This session will provide an overview of the fundamentals of the parity analysis for provider networks and reimbursement, key concerns and findings that regulators have identified to date, and key strategies for effectively demonstrating compliance, including the use of a diverse suite of measures to demonstrate network strength.

[KEYNOTE] Anxiety at Work

Even before the pandemic of 2020, anxiety was crippling the performance of workers—especially young employees. Today it is affecting productivity and leading to ghosting and burnout. In their new release from Harper Business, Anxiety at Work: 8 strategies to help teams build resilience, handle uncertainty, and get stuff done and in their keynotes/workshops, Gostick & Elton offer real tactics for managers to help their employees build resilience.

Data Analytics and Transparency – The Future of Healthcare and Benefits

This session will examine how certain organizations are crushing it by remaining lightyears ahead of how they are using data to cut costs, get better outcomes, and make quick changes in ways never before thought possible. Learn how technology is transforming access, utilization, transparency, and costs.

Investing in Innovative Healthcare and Benefits Solutions

This session will help you understand what results investors look for, and if these results are indicative of strong organizational performance or simply a juicy bottom line for investors.

Cutting the Fat in Virtual Care

The remote workforce is here to stay. Add to that Omicron and future variants, and you’ll realize that virtual care will play a major role in the delivery of healthcare for employees. How do you make sure your virtual solutions are not being run in silos, or do not end up unused, or worse, end up driving healthcare costs up because they do not really help prevent or manage employee health conditions? Are your plan members using these solutions? Are they enjoying them? Learn what results your virtual solutions should be delivering and what makes a solution employee-friendly.

Frontiers of Wellness Technology

Tune in as they discuss recent implications for workplace health solutions and how technology meets employers’ and vendors’ needs alike. Furthermore, discover how the industry is developing and deploying innovative solutions to reduce the risk and complications of chronic and episodic health conditions and drive employee engagement towards a health improvement journey.

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

This session will explore the critical importance emotional intelligence in our business and personal lives. Learn how important this is in leadership and every aspect of the organization, and how this effects the culture of every department. Learn how each of us can grow our emotional intelligence, our leadership, career, marriages and become better versions of ourselves and the importance of living in “reality” versus an alternative narrative. Tune in as we move to Emotional Intelligence 3.0.

Creating a Mentally Healthy Work Environment - Learning from the Global Top Employers

This session will take a close look at what it really takes to create a mentally healthy workplace and how to measure mental wellbeing at the workplace. Two leading employers in the world will present how they have been able to advance the mental wellbeing of their employees in challenging times.

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Navigating Corporate Wellness in a Changing World: Identifying Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Forward for Organizations

Don't miss this opportunity to join the conversation on the future of corporate wellness, discover new approaches, and learn how your organization can navigate the challenges and opportunities in this dynamic and essential field.

Revolutionize Healthcare with a 40% Cost Reduction Mindset

Dr. Ray Bowman took a bold step eight years ago when he walked into the CEO's office at MarineMax. He brought a revolutionary mindset shift that many thought was impossible. Today, he has saved his company millions of dollars each year while improving benefits and lowering deductibles. His goal is to achieve zero cost to employees, and he continues to pursue that goal.