Highlights of the Program
2 days business program:
Learn from real-world case studies by industry leaders.
SHOWCASING INNOVATION:
Discover the latest technology and techniques from across the industry.
leaders talk:
Hear from top-level experts about how to stay ahead in a fast-changing industry.
MULTIPLE STREAMS:
A business program that is multi-disciplinary, giving you a broad view of the industry.
SMART TECHNOLOGIES:
Explore the latest smart and AI-driven solutions, and see how they can be used in your business.
roundtable discussion:
Join talks with industry peers. Share ideas, make connections, and find new partners.
Program
Day 1 :
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026
08:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS
09:00 - 09:10
OPENING ADDRESS
09:10 - 09:35
PITFALLS OF TELEHEALTH


Harish Gagneja
Austin Gastroenterology PA
- Examining technology barriers, equity gaps, privacy concerns, and medico-legal risks that complicate safe and reliable virtual care delivery
- Highlighting clinical limitations, including restricted physical examination, distracted patients, and conditions not suited for telehealth encounters
- Assessing operational and ethical safeguards needed to mitigate risk while preserving access, confidentiality, and quality standards
09:35 - 09:40
Q&A SESSION ON RISK, LIMITATIONS, AND SAFEGUARDS IN TELEHEALTH
09:40 - 10:05
WHEN HEALTHCARE GOES DIGITAL: CYBERSECURITY, AI, AND ETHICS IN VIRTUAL CARE


Julieta Lara Balcaza
IBM
- Examining healthcare’s heightened exposure to cybersecurity threats in virtual care settings
- Unpacking human risk, ransomware, and how breaches directly affect patient safety
- Exploring ethical concerns from AI bias to adversarial attacks and data integrity failures
10:05 - 10:10
Q&A SESSION ON CYBERSECURITY AND ETHICS IN DIGITAL HEALTH SYSTEMS
10:10 - 10:35
PROACTIVELY IDENTIFYING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE THROUGH PHASE-BASED VIRTUAL CARE


Jules Rosen
Vitalic Health, Inc.
- Leveraging AI tools and trained screeners to identify and engage at-risk Medicare Advantage (MA) patients with unmet behavioral health needs
- Delivering timely telehealth evaluations and tailored phase-based care pathways using geriatric-focused multidisciplinary teams
- Demonstrating significant reductions in depression, anxiety, emergency visits, and inpatient medical use within 12 weeks
10:35 - 10:40
Q&A SESSION ON PHASE-BASED BEHAVIORAL TELEHEALTH FOR SENIOR POPULATIONS
10:40 - 11:00
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
11:00 - 11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION ON INNOVATIONS AND CHALLENGES IN REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING AND PERSONALIZED CARE
- What adoption barriers, reimbursement challenges, and engagement gaps must be solved for RPM to deliver measurable patient outcome improvements?
- How can AI-driven RPM analytics integrate with clinical workflows while ensuring interoperability, governance, and reduced clinician burden?
- Which RPM innovations will most improve personalized care, and which persistent barriers may remain difficult for healthcare systems to overcome?
| Captjur
| CIU
| Gheorg
11:30 - 11:55
CLICK, CARE, REPEAT: HOW TELEMEDICINE TRANSFORMS BUSY URGENT CARE AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS' WORKFLOW


Natalie Conde
Novant Health Urgent Care
- Streamlining triage and care delivery during peak seasons using a scalable virtual visit model
- Training 50+ clinics for hybrid workflows that reduced wait times and improved morale
- Expanding urgent care access to rural, immunocompromised, and high-demand populations
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON URGENT CARE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH TELEMEDICINE
12:00 - 12:30
RESERVED PRESENTATION
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE TELEHEALTH EXHIBITION
13:30 - 14:00
PANEL DISCUSSION ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TELEHEALTH: THE ROLE OF AI AND DIGITAL INNOVATIONS
- How can health systems safely scale autonomous AI agents in telehealth while ensuring clinician oversight, ethical guardrails, and measurable preventive care outcomes?
- How can AI transform telehealth’s digital front door—improving scheduling, reducing no-shows, automating communication, and ensuring ethical, trusted deployment?
- As telehealth and RPM expand, how can providers ensure regulatory compliance, data reliability, and improved access for underserved communities?
- How can AI-powered telehealth platforms scale beyond pilots to support hybrid care models, interoperability, and real-time clinical decision support?
- How can AI be embedded into telehealth workflows—triage, documentation, and coordination—while reducing clinician burden and ensuring trustworthy deployment?
| Independent Consultant
| Eniax
| Bolanos Clinical Research
| Elecare.AI
| Piramidz
14:00 - 14:25
TELEHEALTH UNDER SCRUTINY: PERSPECTIVES FROM HEALTHCARE AND WHITE-COLLAR COUNSEL ON SURVIVING UPIC AUDITS AND DOJ INVESTIGATIONS


Rachel M Carey
McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Mapping how UPIC and DOJ target telehealth billing, supervision, and vendor arrangements
- Crafting a response playbook to manage audits, preserve privilege, and address documentation gaps


Richard Blake
McDonald Hopkins LLC
- Establishing defensible records around medical necessity, supervision, and encounter details
- Navigating multi-track exposure while mitigating financial and reputational enforcement risks
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON TELEHEALTH COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES AND LEGAL RISK
14:30 - 14:55
FROM FRAGMENTED TELEHEALTH TO INTEGRATED CARE: BUILDING SCALABLE, HUMAN-CENTERED DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH


Akira Olsen
Journey Health
- Addressing how fragmentation weakens outcomes despite improved access in virtual mental health
- Combining clinical care, prevention, and personalization to support sustainable digital models
- Highlighting strategies for scaling hybrid care with clinician support and long-term continuity
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A SESSION ON SCALABLE INTEGRATION IN DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH
15:00 - 15:30
AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
15:30 - 15:55
BEYOND THE VIRTUAL VISIT: DESIGNING THE DIGITAL PATIENT JOURNEY FOR SPECIALTY THERAPIES


Michael Baldzicki
Lyceum Health
- Re-architecting digital care to align specialty pharmacy with telehealth for complex therapies
- Coordinating payers, providers, and pharmacies via interoperable, automated virtual platforms
- Scaling compliant, personalized therapy management across national digital care networks
15:55 - 16:00
Q&A SESSION ON VIRTUAL CARE INTEGRATION FOR SPECIALTY THERAPIES
16:00 - 16:25
LEVERAGING VIRTUAL PHYSICIAN SERVICES TO STRENGTHEN RURAL HOSPITAL REVENUE AND CENSUS


Darren Sommer
Innovator Health
- Integrating tele-specialists into rural hospitals to expand service lines and improve access affordably
- Establishing the ancillary infrastructure needed to support virtual inpatient care and physician services
- Making the business case for virtual physician models as a path to increasing census and long-term financial stability
16:25 - 16:30
Q&A SESSION ON RURAL TELEHEALTH MODELS AND VIRTUAL PHYSICIAN ROI
16:30 - 17:00
RESERVED PRESENTATION
17:00 - 18:00
NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
Day 2 :
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2026
08:30 - 09:00
MORNING REFRESHMENTS
09:00 - 09:10
OPENING ADDRESS
09:10 - 09:40
RESERVED PRESENTATION
09:40 - 10:05
VIRTUAL NURSING AND BEYOND: UNCOVERING THE ROI


Timothy Marks
Cooper University Health Care
- Advancing RN practice by maximizing licensure and clinical care efficiency through virtual nursing
- Framing virtual nursing’s value to improve safety, satisfaction, and operational performance
- Envisioning future-state smart rooms and AI-assisted workflows in care delivery
10:05 - 10:10
Q&A SESSION ON VIRTUAL NURSING IMPACTS AND SMART ROOM ROI
10:10 - 10:40
RESERVED PRESENTATION
10:40 - 11:00
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
11:00 - 11:25
LEVERAGING GENERATIVE AI INTAKE AGENTS PRIOR TO VIRTUAL VISITS


Connor Lundy
Included Health
- Automating adaptive patient intake using generative AI to gather history and visit context
- Stratifying patients into appropriate virtual pathways through AI-driven triage logic
- Streamlining virtual visits with precharting that improves efficiency and personalization
11:25 - 11:30
Q&A SESSION ON AI-POWERED PATIENT INTAKE FOR VIRTUAL CARE
11:30 - 11:55
FROM VIRTUAL VISITS TO VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE: HOW GEN AI AND AGENTIC AI ARE REDEFINING DIGITAL HEALTH


Rajesh Gopinath
Veritide
- Applying generative and agentic AI to create personalized, adaptive digital care experiences
- Enhancing clinical workflows and patient engagement through intelligent, real-time automation
- Positioning AI as a strategic tool for scalable, proactive, and data-driven healthcare systems
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION IN VIRTUAL CARE
12:00 - 12:25
EASYTELEMED: CARE FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE


Giuseppe Gentile
EasyTeleMed Inc.
- Delivering user-friendly remote care through an FDA/MDR-cleared, privacy-focused platform
- Aligning with clinical workflows by co-developing with doctors and patients over a decade
- Integrating biomedical devices and third-party systems to support value-based virtual care
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A SESSION ON USER-FRIENDLY TELEHEALTH PLATFORMS
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE TELEHEALTH EXHIBITION
13:30 - 13:55
HOW TO PREPARE CHILDREN AND PARENTS FOR PEDIATRIC TELEHEALTH VISITS


Ina Burgstaller
BIONABU
- Identifying emotional stressors and psychological withdrawal in pediatric virtual care
- Guiding families with structured tools to reduce anxiety and support child participation
- Embedding trauma-informed prep into telehealth workflows for better engagement
13:55 - 14:00
Q&A SESSION ON FAMILY-GUIDED PEDIATRIC VIRTUAL CARE
14:00 - 14:25
PRECISION ENGAGEMENT: A SCALABLE PATH TO BETTER HEALTH AND WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY


Kristin Rodriguez
Vitality Group Inc.
- Using behavioral data — not just conditions — to segment populations and target action
- Driving preventive and clinical actions through AI-ranked recommendations, incentives, and nudges
- Improving productivity and outcomes by activating high-risk, previously inactive groups and driving completion of clinical actions
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON AI-POWERED ENGAGEMENT AND WORKPLACE OUTCOMES
14:30 - 14:55
REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING GENERATES REVENUE AND IMPROVES OUTCOMES


Antonio Ocana
Epiphany Digital Health Solutions
- Closing care gaps through daily remote screening tools tied to value-based care measures
- Tracking mental health risk with passive monitoring to meet FUH7 and FUH30 compliance
- Activating revenue by flagging risk in real time and preventing patient deterioration
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A SESSION ON RPM FOR MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES
15:00 - 15:15
FEEDBACK & RAFFLE DRAW
15:15 - 15:30
CLOSING REMARKS
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