Agenda for Better Outcomes 2023
Niagara Falls Convention Centre
6815 Stanley Ave, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
September 6 - 8, 2023
08:00 AM - 07:00 PM
Registration and Breakfast
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
Director of Growth
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Opening Keynote
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
Director Strategic Accounts
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
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
Director of Growth
Alison Green
Founder, Bien Chez Soi
Joey Hsu
Vice President Operations & Strategy, MedTec Healthcare & Private Duty
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
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
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
SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development
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
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
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
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
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
SVP of Data and Intelligence
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
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Isaac Alexander
Chief Product & Software Architect