Program Highlights
Flip the Switch: Igniting Scaled Digital Health
NEXUS unites the brightest minds in virtual care and digital health for a dynamic, multi-day experience featuring visionary speakers, expert panels, deep dives, workshops, and system spotlights. With 200+ speakers covering AI, remote monitoring, direct-to-consumer strategies, telehealth policy, and much more, NEXUS delivers cutting-edge insights and collaboration. The program empowers clinicians and leaders to advance care and shape the future of connected health.
Schedule
at a Glance
*Schedule is subject to change
Tuesday, May 12
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Registration
12:00 PM
NEXUS Welcome
1:00 – 6:00 PM
Virtual Nursing Implementation Bootcamp
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
3:00 – 6:00 PM
Deep Dive Programming
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Nexus Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 13
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Registration
7:00 – 8:00 AM
Wellness Hour
8:00 – 8:45 AM
Mainstage Continental Breakfast & Coffee
8:45 – 10:30 AM
Main Stage Presentations
10:30 AM
Exhibit Floor Opens
(Open 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM)
10:45 AM – 1:30 PM
Exhibit Floor Dedicated Hours
Strolling Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
Research Sessions, Express and Patient Voice Theaters, ATA and SIG Hub Presentations, Book Signings, Focus Groups, Labs
1:30 – 5:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
5:00 PM
Exhibit Floor Closes
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Networking Reception
Thursday, May 14
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Registration
7:00 – 8:00 AM
Wellness Hour
8:00 – 9:00 AM
ATA SIG Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Focus Group Breakfasts
8:00 – 8:45 AM
Mainstage Continental Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 – 12:00 PM
Main Stage Presentations
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
5th Annual Innovators Challenge
11:00 AM
Exhibit Floor Opens
(Open 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Exhibit Floor Dedicated Hours
Strolling Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
Research Sessions, Express and Patient Voice Theaters, ATA and SIG Hub Presentations, Focus Groups, Labs
1:30 to 5:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
5:00 PM
Exhibit Floor Closes
5:30 PM
Programming Ends
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Poolside Happy Hour
8:00 – 11:00 PM
Social Night – Sponsored by Ziegler
CONTENT PILLARS
Discipline: Scaling Smart Under Uncertainty
Focus:
Health systems and care organizations are still scaling digital care — but no longer with:
This pillar focuses on how organizations scale responsibly when the ground keeps shifting:
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Health systems and care organizations are still scaling digital care — but no longer with:
- Emergency waivers
- Abundant pilots
- Endless grant funding
- Infinite workforce flexibility
This pillar focuses on how organizations scale responsibly when the ground keeps shifting:
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Workforce shortages
- Platform consolidation
- Budget pressure
Key questions explored:
- What did you stop scaling — and why?
- Where did you consolidate vs expand?
- How did you prioritize when everything felt urgent?
- What broke when you tried to scale too fast?
Content alignment:
- Clinical care models & workflows
- Care coordination / cross-continuum care
- Acuity-based care models
- Episodic vs. chronic care models
- Preventive care integration
- Infrastructure & technology implementation
- Sustainable implementation (pilot to permanent)
- Operational excellence / process optimization
- Staffing models & resource allocation
- Workforce & staffing models
- Clinician burnout & retention
- Clinician experience
- Organizational change management, adoption strategies
- Digital health fundamentals
- Telehealth 101 for 2026 realities
- Technology platforms & infrastructure / EHR integration
- Data & interoperability
How it shows up at Nexus:
- Case-based sessions
- “Tradeoff” conversations (this vs that)
- Peer discussions about pacing, sequencing, and restraint
Translation: From Evidence to Enforcement: Making Policy Work
Focus:
The industry has plenty of evidence that virtual and digital care works — but:
This pillar focuses on closing the gap between what’s proven and what’s allowed, paid for, or enforced.
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
The industry has plenty of evidence that virtual and digital care works — but:
- Coverage is inconsistent
- Enforcement is uneven
- State-level variation is enormous
- Operational reality often lags policy intent
This pillar focuses on closing the gap between what’s proven and what’s allowed, paid for, or enforced.
Key questions explored:
- Where did evidence actually change coverage or regulation?
- What policy wins didn’t translate operationally?
- How are organizations navigating state-by-state friction?
- Where are we still operating in gray zones?
Content alignment:
- Policy (federal & state)
- Legal, regulatory, compliance
- Licensure & credentialing
- Revenue cycle & reimbursement
- Value-based care models
- Payer & employer perspectives
- Outcomes & evidence
- Research presentations & showcases
- Clinical trials & research innovation
- Cybersecurity & privacy (when regulatory-driven)
- Population health & access (when policy-enabled)
How it shows up at Nexus:
- Policy sessions grounded in real operator impact
- State-focused examples (not generic federal overviews)
- Joint conversations between policy leaders and implementers
Execution: Operationalizing Digital-Native Care Models
Primary home for “how this actually runs day to day.”
Focus:
We are past “adding telehealth” to traditional care.
This pillar is about care models that are designed to be digital-first or digitally native, including:
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Focus:
We are past “adding telehealth” to traditional care.
This pillar is about care models that are designed to be digital-first or digitally native, including:
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Sustainability: Sustainable Business Models Beyond Grant Funding
Primary home for financial realism and durability.
Focus:
Digital health can no longer survive on:
This pillar is about what survives financially:
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Focus:
Digital health can no longer survive on:
- Pilots
- Temporary funding
- Innovation theater
This pillar is about what survives financially:
- Under real reimbursement rules
- In value-based and fee-for-service hybrids
- With CFO scrutiny
- Over multiple budget cycles
Key questions explored:
- Where is ROI real — and where is it overstated?
- What financial stories actually resonate with leadership?
- How do contracting and outcomes-based pricing really work?
- When did organizations decide to shut something down?
Content alignment:
- Business/Value of digital health
- ROI & financial sustainability
- Business case development
- Contracting & partnerships (health system-vendor, pharma, etc.
- Performance- or outcomes-based contracting
- Payer & employer perspectives (commercial focus)
- Revenue cycle and reimbursement strategy (financial lens)
- MSK programs (as a proven ROI use case)
- Chronic disease programs (financial performance)
- Pharma partnerships & integration
- Investors & venture capital
- International perspectives
How it shows up at Nexus:
- Deep dives
- Transformation labs
- Case-based financial storytelling
- Cross-functional (clinical + finance) discussions
Access: Activating Care in Rural & Underserved Communities
Primary home for access-focused adaptation, not ideal conditions.
Focus:
Digital care often claims to improve access, but activation looks very different when:
This pillar centers on what it takes to make digital care actually work in constrained environments.
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Focus:
Digital care often claims to improve access, but activation looks very different when:
- Infrastructure is limited
- Workforce is scarce
- Patients face social barriers
- Payment models are fragile
This pillar centers on what it takes to make digital care actually work in constrained environments.
Key questions explored:
- What adaptations were required for rural or safety-net settings?
- Where did “best practices” fail?
- How do equity goals translate into operational decisions?
- What partnerships mattered most?
Content alignment:
- Rural health
- Access to care & access gaps, disparities
- Population health
- Aging/geriatrics
- Chronic disease management (access-driven)
- Behavioral health (access-driven)
- Pediatrics (access + workforce)
- Specialty access models
- Preventive care in underserved settings
- Food is Medicine / Virtual Foodcare
- Community-based partnerships
- State and local program models
How it shows up at Nexus:
- Case studies from non-ideal settings
- Policy + ops discussions
- Community and system partnerships
- One or two intentional spotlight sessions
Evolution: Decisions That Shaped What Endured
A lens on disciplined decision-making and program evolution.
Focus:
Features lessons learned and decisions that shaped today’s most durable digital care programs. What scaled successfully? What required adaptation? And what was intentionally stopped based on evidence, experience, and changing conditions?
This pillar creates space for:
Key questions explored:
Content alignment:
How it shows up at Nexus:
Focus:
Features lessons learned and decisions that shaped today’s most durable digital care programs. What scaled successfully? What required adaptation? And what was intentionally stopped based on evidence, experience, and changing conditions?
This pillar creates space for:
- Hard decisions
- Course corrections
- Admitting that some things didn’t work
Key questions explored:
- What design or implementation choices proved sustainable?
- Where did teams adjust course—and why?
- What programs or workflows were intentionally sunset?
- What lessons now inform how new initiatives are evaluated?
Content alignment:
- Implementation & operations
- Workflow & organizational change
- Measurement & quality
- Technology & innovation
How it shows up at Nexus:
- Case-based discussions grounded in real decisions
- Facilitated peer exchanges
- Candid conversations about tradeoffs and evolution
- Best-practice spotlights informed by lived experience
- Carefully curated panels
- High trust, high value conversations
Inside the Nexus 2026 Program: Session & Learning Formats
Deep Dives
Immersive three-hour sessions offering hands-on strategies and in-depth exploration of key topics in virtual care innovation.
System Spotlights
Leading hospital systems share proven models, lessons learned, and real-world results in virtual care integration.
Workshops
Collaborate, problem-solve, and create actionable strategies in these interactive, peer-driven sessions inspired by ATA’s Insights Summits.
Concurrent Sessions
200+ speakers. 100+ sessions. Explore best practices in virtual care delivery. From AI and virtual nursing, to specialty care, direct-to-consumer strategies, the latest policy updates, and so much more.
Show Floor Theaters
Quick, high-impact sessions delivering practical takeaways on the latest in telehealth and digital innovation.
Main Stage Headliners
Hear from the visionaries shaping the future of healthcare and technology.
Mini Deep Dives
Focused, fast-paced explorations of emerging trends and innovations in digital care.
Panels
High-energy, expert-led discussions tackling today’s biggest challenges in digital health—from infrastructure and policy to AI and access.
Research
Uncover the latest data and findings driving virtual care’s value and impact—through oral and poster presentations.
Telehealth Innovators Challenge
See the next wave of virtual care technologies compete for top honors in this fast-paced, can’t-miss competition.
