Employees bring their family and cultural norms and values into work every day. Understanding diverse populations across the globe is critical to activate employee participation in well-being and promote workforce resilience. We’ll explore a framework to help employers understand the key cultural dimensions critical to engagement, and the impact of these dimensions on the language, content and imagery used in global well-being initiatives. Employers will share how they’ve used this framework to promote an enterprise-wide well-being and resilience strategy by taking a global approach and a local mindset.

With unnecessary or inappropriate care accounting for 30% of health care waste each year, we need to arm employees with actionable data to ensure they choose doctors who consistently deliver high-quality, appropriate care. Join this session to learn about leveraging data and analytics to better understand the impact of health care quality on your employee’s experience and your bottom line.

According to a recent Business Group on Health survey, three in four employers share concern about inequities in their company’s health and well-being initiatives. Join this session to hear from experts on market trends, with real world examples of how digital therapeutics can help drive health equity and support high risk individuals.

Hear from a company that’s intentionally developed a best-in-class culture of health, framed around educating, supporting and engaging their employees, in partnership with senior leadership. A comprehensive dashboard system yields insight into behaviors that influence population health and provides an opportunity to adjust programs and policies to improve workforce health.

During this session, you will learn from two separate innovators. The first speaker will share insights and learnings on how to evaluate, identify, and contract with the right health solution for your unique demographics and the second speaker will provide an overview of their new program helping females improve pelvic health.

Creating greater inclusivity in well-being programs and providing employees with more personalized support has the potential to reduce health disparities. This session will couple insights from published research with tangible, real-life employer examples on how to remove barriers to health engagement, particularly for those who are at risk or who are experiencing co-morbidities. Speakers will also share what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to improving the physical and mental health of the workforce, leaving the audience with calls-to-action to implement in their own organizations.

Prescription drugs covered under the medical benefit account for a significant portion of the specialty drug expenditures. Medical specialty carve-out plans are designed to provide employers with greater control of utilization, better pricing and to ensure their program is at peak performance. During this session, you will gain insight into the necessary ingredients for sustainable specialty drug management – alignment, value and transparency.

Join this session to hear how one leader implemented a transformational strategy that improves attraction and retention through an innovative, flexible benefits strategy. A single hub for lifestyle, HSA, 401k and employee-funded accounts with an employer-specific ecosystem of reimbursement options across the spectrum of well-being creates a differentiated value proposition by enabling participants to customize a portfolio of benefit offerings tailored to their individual needs.

New workforce dynamics are motivating leading employers to evolve their benefit strategies. At the top of that list and increasingly valuable to employee health and well-being are leave and time away. Leveraging data from a new, large employer survey, this session will explore leave trends, approaches for integrating benefits holistically and innovative ways to improve the employee experience with an emphasis on equity and inclusion.

During this innovation session, you will hear from two separate innovators on their approach to integrating virtual primary care. They will each describe the problem their solution intends to solve, innovation to care delivery or program design, and outcomes to date.

The pandemic thrust mental health to the forefront, but what’s next? Virtual health helped solve some access issues, but there are still key mental health gaps that organizations must address to support workforce well-being. Based on new proprietary research, this session will highlight mental health benefits gaps in the workplace and illustrate how a leading employer is building a mentally healthy workforce to enhance employee engagement, well-being, productivity and retention in the new world of work.

As health care costs continue to rise, employers are critically evaluating plan benefits and partners to ensure their programs drive value and impact. In this session we will look beyond activity metrics and learn how to use meaningful quantitative and qualitative measures to assess how condition-specific virtual programs impact the lives, health and well-being of people.

Existing practices and processes for value-based care assume that patients should be managed the same way. Approaches designed for an “average” patient lack clinical nuance and fail to address the individual needs of members. In this session, we discuss how value-based care can be made more effective through health care hyper-personalization using small data machine intelligence that enables predictive modeling of individual members preferences and behaviors.

Primary care is the foundation of the care continuum. To offer new ways to access quality primary care, many employers have turned to virtual solutions. Learn how virtual primary care can help employers promote health equity, achieve cost savings, and drive success with an approach to virtual health that integrates with the full health care experience.

During this session, two separate organizations will share insights from their latest research. The first speaker will present their newly published insights on predicting risk of musculoskeletal conditions and improving care and the second speaker will present their latest research on adopting mental health solutions to specific patient segment needs.

Only 1 in 12 employees with a mental health condition asks for help. To prevent countless individuals from unnecessary suffering and make a meaningful impact on lives and total cost of care, it’s imperative to identify “the other 11” and provide them with personalized, evidence-based mental health care. This session will explore a large employer’s strategy to identify employees in need of assistance and intervene before their condition worsens.

Pharmacy trends are consistently reported as a top employer concern. Formulary changes and utilization management have not done enough to curb the rising cost. Learn how benefit leaders are looking for opportunities to optimize pharmacy costs via transparency and navigation.

With delays in preventive screenings during the pandemic, later stage cancer cases are emerging, creating a challenge for benefits leaders. Learn how virtual primary care and expert medical opinions can help employees better understand their diagnosis and offer motivation to pursue timely treatment.

During this session, you will learn from two leading health care delivery systems about their new solutions supporting patients. The first speaker will present their clinical review program which helps patients understand their diagnosis and treatment options and a second innovator will present their program designed for complex patients.

Many employees and their families struggle with caregiving challenges that can lead to high rates of anxiety and depression, poor health outcomes, attrition, and lower rates of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workforce. Hear how a comprehensive parenting and caregiving benefit can positively impact employees, productivity and engagement, and affinity towards their employer. The needs of working families are diverse across each stage of family life - planning for parenthood and pregnancy, parenting for kids of any age and navigating adult caregiving. Supporting employees across these needs and stages is more critical than ever.

While increasing access to mental health resources has long been a priority, many care gaps remain. In this session, we will share how integrating mental health and primary care enhances health outcomes and discuss strategies employers can leverage to remove barriers like cost and access to connect employees to fully integrated care that helps improve their health.

The pandemic highlighted how longstanding underinvestment in sociological and economic conditions impacts the overall health of employees and their communities. It became painfully clear that marginalized communities experienced negative impacts disproportionately. Leveraging a key source of community well-being data, this session demonstrates how employers are uniquely positioned to help employees understand their health, reduce barriers to care and advance health equity. The conversation will focus on learnings over the past two years, review social risk impact, and detail successes, hurdles and surprises along the way.

During this session, two separate organizations will share insights from their latest research. The first speaker will share the results of a recent study in genomics and pharmacogenomic testing and the second speaker will share new insights on how employers can develop strategies to lower their cancer risk.