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Agenda for Better Outcomes 2023

Niagara Falls Convention Centre
6815 Stanley Ave, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

September 6 - 8, 2023

Agenda

Wednesday, September 6
Thursday, September 7
Friday, September 8

08:00 AM - 07:00 PM

Registration and Breakfast

AlayaCare University Live

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Registration and Breakfast

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Welcome

Jeff Howell
Jeff Howell

Director of Growth

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Opening Keynote

Adrian Schauer
Adrian Schauer

Co-founder and CEO

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Optimizing AlayaCare

Optimizing workflows and business practices can have a significant positive impact for your agency. Our guest presenter will share inspiring stories on how they continue to drive full-suite business transformation across multiple business lines including their Personal Care Business.

Casey Barnes
Casey Barnes

Director Strategic Accounts

Christian Mate
Christian Mate

CIO, Elara Caring

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Break

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Maximize Productivity with Optimized Scheduling

Alex Skinner, Value Creation Consultant, shares upcoming scheduling updates that will change how you deliver care to your clients and patients. Learn how you can maximize the efficiency of your back office teams with a robust scheduling system and also optimize your visits, routes and schedules with the click of a button.

Alex Skinner
Alex Skinner

Value Creation Consultant

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Home Health 360 Podcast: Live from Better Outcomes

Join us for our first-ever live taping of the Home Health 360 Podcast with host Jeff Howell and guests Alison Green from Bien Chez Soi, Conner Nelson from CSI and Joey Hsu from MedTec. This panel will explore their unique organizational approach to providing care in the home and explore how AlayaCare Cloud is supporting their day-to-day business practices. Our panelists will take a deep dive into how they’re building efficiencies and automation in 2023 to reduce repetitive tasks and stabilize and grow their businesses.

Jeff Howell
Jeff Howell

Director of Growth

Alison Green
Alison Green

Founder, Bien Chez Soi

Joey Hsu
Joey Hsu

Vice President Operations & Strategy, MedTec Healthcare & Private Duty

Conner Nelson
Conner Nelson

Director of Operations, CSI Pharmacy

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Breakouts

Breakouts will be designed based on industry segment. Keep checking for updates!

3:30 PM - 4:05 PM

Industry Keynote

Joost van Engen is the founder of Healthy Entrepreneurs, an initiative that aims to provide access to basic healthcare using solid scalable business models, especially for vulnerable people in hard-to-reach areas.

Joost van Engen
Joost van Engen

Founder of Healthy Entrepreneurs

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Enhance Productivity Through the Caregiver Mobile App and Visit Verification

Erin Baker, Director of Solutions Engineering, will highlight our new mobile and visit verification experience that help create efficiences for your field staff and back office team. See how your agency can increase productivity and delight your caregivers with the new advancements that pair a smooth visit experience with the caregiver mobile application. Next, see how Visit Verification manages the bulk of your visits, to free up your coordinators' time.

Erin Baker
Erin Baker

Director, Solutions Engineering

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Business Value of Digital Transformation

Moving to AlayaCare Cloud must align with your business goals. This fireside chat led by Geoff Darling, SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development, with guest Katherine Evans, Divisional Director of Operations from Brookdale at Home, will walk us through the business value of digital transformation in our home care industry. Learn from our guest how they implemented change management through adoption to better serve their citizens/patient lifecycle management.

Geoff Darling
Geoff Darling

SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development

Katherine Evans
Katherine Evans

Divisional Director of Operations, Brookdale at Home

4:50 PM - 6:00 PM

Break

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

Cocktail Reception

6:45 PM - 8:45 PM

Dinner and Awards Ceremony

Time to celebrate you! Join us for cocktails and dinner while we present this year's Better Outcomes award winners.

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

A Day in Review

Jeff Howell
Jeff Howell

Director of Growth

9:10 AM - 9:40 AM

Unveiling themes through the longitudinal study: Insights from AlayaCare's data

Join us for an illuminating conference session as we delve into the world of longitudinal studies and uncover the themes within. George Psiharis, COO at AlayaCare, will share valuable insights derived from extensive data spanning diverse segments and markets. Here is your opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trends that emerge over time through the lens of longitudinal studies. Discover how AlayaCare's meticulous data analysis has uncovered hidden patterns, identified emerging trends, and enabled proactive decision-making within the healthcare industry.

George Psiharis
George Psiharis

Chief Operating Officer

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM

Disrupting the Caregiver Workforce: Trends and Insights to Change the Culture of Care

An innovation talk that dives into the current challenges and transformative potential within the caregiving industry to address workforce challenges. Through story and data, the session focuses on better understanding who a homecare worker really is and the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities they face each day. This presentation emphasizes the importance of a collective effort towards creating a more sustainable, supportive, and inclusive environment for caregivers, thus significantly enhancing the quality of care for those they serve. It's a critical conversation for anyone invested in the future of care.

Brandi Kurtyka
Brandi Kurtyka

CEO, MissionCare Collective

10:10 AM - 10:25 AM

Break

10:25 AM - 10:40 AM

Exploring our Clinical Releases

Kaila Raimondo, Market Leader - Skilled Nursing, will walk through the next level of innovation with our suite of advanced products. With several big releases in 2023 - Medication Database to Flowsheets and Mandatory forms - we're excited to showcase what our brand new Medication Administration can do for your agency.

Kaila Raimondo
Kaila Raimondo

Market Leader, Skilled Nursing

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM

What's Next for Digital Home and Community Care?

Naomi Goldapple, SVP of Data & Intelligence, and our customer Matt Kroll, Practice President Assistive Care & Assistive Care State Programs at BAYADA will give a sneak peek at how AlayaCare captures customers' data points and tries to solve them with advanced algorithms, AI, and Machine Learning. She will discuss how AlayaCare's data exploration team is partnering with customers like you to help make more accurate, data backed decisions.

Naomi Goldapple
Naomi Goldapple

SVP of Data and Intelligence

Matt Kroll
Matt Kroll

Practice President Assistive Care & Assistive Care State Programs, BAYADA

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM

Innovation Unleashed: The Vision for AlayaCare's Platform

Our final session is a must see! Don't miss the big announcements from Andrew McDonald, Chief Product & Technology Officer and Isaac Alexander, Chief Product & Software Architect! Hear how AlayaCare drives productivity, efficiency, and value through the vision for the AlayaCare platform. You'll walk away with powerful opportunities helping you serve your clients better and deliver better outcomes.

Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Isaac Alexander
Isaac Alexander

Chief Product & Software Architect

Wednesday, September 6
Thursday, September 7
Friday, September 8