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Strategies for High-Value, Affordable Healthcare
About the Forum
We are grateful for a full room and an important conversation. Employers were at a turning point — rising costs, fractured care, and a workforce under pressure demanded more than incremental fixes. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2026 WHA Spring Forum to take on these challenges together.
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Morning Keynote
Dr. Jennifer Posa is the former Chief Wellbeing Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency and a leading expert on organizational readiness, leadership effectiveness, and human performance strategy.
She helps leaders and organizations understand how to build systems that sustain human performance under pressure, mitigate burnout as a strategic risk, and enhance workforce capacity through organizational well-being. Drawing on executive leadership roles at the CIA, Johnson & Johnson, and Mayo Clinic, Dr. Posa translates lessons from high-stakes environments into practical frameworks and approaches that help organizations strengthen culture, readiness, and results.
Afternoon Keynote
Dr. Fabius is the Co-founder, President, and Chief Medical Officer of HealthNEXT, where he passionately pursues building and enhancing corporate cultures of health and wellbeing.
Throughout his career he has garnered medical and business leadership experience across informatics, strategy, operations, quality management, disease management, occupational medicine, analytics, and more. He has served as Global Medical Leader for General Electric, CMO for Thomson Reuters, Population Health Strategist for Walgreens, and CMO for Truven Health Analytics.
May 13, 2026
Dr. Posa examined whether rising healthcare costs can truly be reduced without system-level change. Drawing on global experience, she connected mental well-being, workplace effectiveness, productivity, and long-term affordability—setting the stage for action-oriented dialogue throughout the day.
From Well-Being to Performance — Are Our Systems Built to Deliver?
Building on Dr. Jennifer Posa’s keynote, this reactor panel examined whether today’s employer and healthcare systems are truly equipped to turn mental well-being and workplace effectiveness into sustained productivity and long-term value. Panelists explored how incentives, governance, and operating models either enable or undermine five-year workforce health strategies—assessing mental well-being not as a benefit, but as a core performance lever.
Integrating Primary, Mental, and Physical Health
This session explored how blending primary care with integrated mental and physical health services can elevate access, improve outcomes, and deliver truly high‑value, whole‑person care. Leaders from One Medical and Vida explored how coordinated, holistic approaches strengthen affordability, enhance patient experience, and support a more sustainable care ecosystem.
A practical look at how employers can operationalize workforce health to drive performance, value, and measurable results. Dr. Fabius challenged the prevailing mindset that treats human capital as a cost center, making the case for a necessary shift toward viewing workforce health as a strategic asset.
Strategies That Work — Advanced Primary Care, Navigation, and Advocacy
Leaders shared real-world strategies that are improving coordination, experience, and outcomes.
A discussion on how the Washington Health Data Exchange (WAHDX) is working to facilitate the integration of health data to support smarter policy, investment, and community-level action statewide.
From the Blog
Reconsidering ROI metrics, aligning scorecards with partners, integrating care delivery, leveraging clinical data infrastructure, and treating AI as a system-wide opportunity — key lessons from a full day of conversation.
Artificial intelligence emerged as a central theme at the WHA May Forum — not as speculation, but as a practical force already reshaping how care is delivered and how healthcare systems operate.
At this year’s spring forum, the conversation kept circling back to the same place. Workforce health strategy, whole-person care, data infrastructure, AI. Every thread led back to one question: do your employees have a real relationship with a primary care physician?
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This event was made possible with the generous support of our sponsors.
