WellSky invites you to apply to speak at CareForum, the annual WellSky conference. Professionals from across the care continuum attend CareForum every year because it offers unmatched opportunities to learn from the industry’s top experts. At CareForum, attendees gain new skills to take home and put into action. 

Important dates

  • April 28, 2023: Speaker proposal deadline
  • May 15, 2023: Speakers notified of application status
  • September 10-13, 2023: CareForum at the Fairmont in Austin, Texas

Submission and selection process

Submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by the CareForum Advisory Committee based on content, format, and presenter credentials. We’re looking for compelling presentations that relate to the tracks listed below. Sessions should help our audience better understand and address the unique challenges facing their industry, provide real-world applications, and offer educational support. These presentations: 

  • Are approximately 50 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute Q&A session 

  • Include 1-2 speakers 

  • Deliver dynamic, actionable content, with up to 3 clear takeaways 

Sessions offering continuing education credit are encouraged but not required. 

Why speak at CareForum?

CareForum is attended by more than 1,000 healthcare executives and leaders from various end markets across health and community care. We ask that our speakers focus their presentations on one or more of the following settings of care: 

  • Blood management & cell therapy 

  • Community programs & community-based organizations (CBOs) 

  • Home Health 

  • Home & ambulatory infusion, specialty pharmacy, HME/DME 

  • Hospice 

  • Hospitals and health systems 

  • Human & social services 

  • Inpatient behavioral health 

  • Long-term acute care 

  • Long-term care

  • Outpatient 

  • Palliative care 

  • Payers & risk-bearing organizations 

  • Personal care 

  • Physician practice / physician group 

  • Rehabilitation 

  • Skilled nursing facilities 

Session tracks 

To provide our attendees with compelling, customized content, our agenda is broken into 5 main tracks. These tracks are designed to address the educational needs of the care settings in attendance.  

  • Technology and Innovation: Technology will continue to be an important component of your organization, especially as your team navigates the shift to value-based care, the growing staffing shortage, and other key industry trends. In this track, we'll focus on the latest technological advancements in healthcare, and how they may impact you and your team in the coming year. 
     

  • Care Delivery and Patient Engagement: Your patients and clients are at the heart of everything you do. In this session, we'll focus on clinical trends, regulations, and success stories that can help your team deliver amazing care every day.  
     

  • Strategy and Operations: Consumerism, the staffing shortage, and virtual care are just some of the trends impacting healthcare today, but navigating these and ensuring organizational success can be a challenge. In these sessions, we'll focus on the trends that are causing seismic shifts in the healthcare industry. Thought leaders will provide actionable takeaways that can help your organization continue to operate efficiently and effectively in the face of change. 
     

  • Analytics: Interactions with clients and patients generate hundreds of thousands of data points for your organization. Understanding how to capture, use, and report on these is critical for your team's success. In this track, we'll focus on trends in data, analytics, and predicative analytics, and explain how they can help your organization better identify at-risk patients, support clinical decision-making, and more. 
     

  • Health Equity: Disparities in healthcare have always existed. However, COVID-19 brought these disparities sharply into focus. In this track, we’ll focus on ways health systems, post-acute providers, and community organizations can collaborate to improve health equity in communities across the country. 

Questions?

If you have any questions please contact us at careforum@wellsky.com.