2025 Opioid & Fentanyl Abuse Management Summit

Innovative Strategies for States, Health Plans/Hospitals to Manage the Opioid & Fentanyl Epidemic: Engaging/Educating Clinicians and Patients, Implementing Enhanced Monitoring Strategies, and Incorporating Effective Standards of Care

 July 17 – 18, 2025 • Swissotel Chicago • Chicago, IL

Past Sponsors/Exhibitors & Partners

Overview

The opioid & fentanyl epidemic has gained national attention, and there has been increasing pressure on hospitals, health systems and health plans to effectively tackle this complex issue. Chronic pain affects a large number of Americans, and ineffective practices related to prescribing guidelines, prescription monitoring and provider education have led to an increase in opioid & fentanyl abuse/harm. hospitals, health systems and health plans must engage in efficient organizational strategies, enhanced provider education and safer prescription practices to effectively tackle the rise in opioid & fentanyl abuse.

We have created a high-level forum featuring knowledgeable leaders and executives from hospitals, health systems and health plans who will share their perspectives, valuable insights and expertise on how to be best equipped for the rapidly evolving landscape of opioid & fentanyl management. Attendees will benefit from learning about best practices and strategies that have been deployed to address the challenges presented by the current healthcare environment impacting hospitals, health systems and health plans in effectively managing opioid & fentanyl abuse/harm. This exclusive event targets senior level executives in order to maximize educational and networking opportunities.

By attending the 2025 Opioid & Fentanyl Abuse Management Summit, you will learn what others in the opioid & fentanyl management arena are doing to succeed in transforming the nation’s healthcare and its population. Register today to reserve your seat at the conference and take advantage of early bird discounts.

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

From Hospitals, Health Systems, Health Plans, Behavioral Health Centers, Employer Plans, TPAs, Managed Care Organizations & Other Payers:

Chief Executive Officers, Chief Medial Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Operations Officers, Chief of Psychiatry, Chief Information Officers

Also, Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors & Managers of:

This program is also geared towards Mental Health Facilities, States, Government Agencies, Vendors, Healthcare Consultants, Solution Providers, Disease Management Organizations, Third Party Administrators, IT & Business Process Outsourcing Companies, Enrollment Brokers and More!

Day One – Thursday, July 17, 2025

Day Two – Friday, July 18, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025 • 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Implementing Effective Standards of Care within Opioid & Fentanyl Management

Speakers To Be Announced

Exhibitors

Calcium Health. The Calcium Digital Health Platform maximizes health outcomes and provider efficiency with automated patient engagement and 360-degree access to patient data. Our solution integrates a patient Super App with robust provider dashboard and AI-powered pathway generator.

Medical Guardian is a leading provider of innovative health solutions for aging adults, with 600,000+ active members nationwide.  We close gaps in care and improve outcomes through our full suite of connected-care Medical Alert Systems and Remote Patient Monitoring solutions which empower older adults to engage in an active lifestyle and age safely. 

Epinal, Inc., based in Irvine, California, is pioneering the development of Narcolyzer, the first technology of its kind designed to detect the presence of narcotics in a person's body through breath analysis. Over the past seven years, the company has conducted extensive research to create an innovative odorant-binding protein (OBP) sensing technology capable of identifying specific narcotics via exhaled breath. Unlike other companies attempts to do this, which focused on miniaturizing large laboratory equipment into handheld devices, a method which has only failed over the past decade — Epinal's approach involves designing custom proteins derived from what occurs already in nature. These engineered proteins are formatted to distinguish specific narcotics, providing a pass/fail reading for the drug's presence in the body. With an R&D lab in Bristol, UK, Epinal is now expanding its operations to establish a laboratory in California dedicated to designing the breath collection device that will utilize OBPs and bring this product to market. The company has garnered interest from multiple State and local governments eager to order the first field trial units. Several universities have shown interest in partnering for human trials prior to market release. Epinal is also working on collaboration deals with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the University of California system, including UC Irvine. The company maintains a longstanding partnership with the University of Manchester in the UK, which has already purchased some of Epinal's work to advance their own research.

Health Risk Management, Inc., (HRM), a 501(c)(3), is dedicated to saving lives, mitigating risk, and conserving money with an easy-to-use DSM-5-TR-compliant OUD-diagnostic interview and comprehensive psychobiosocial risk assessment protocol that rapidly facilitates access to judicious utilization of pain pharmacologics for "at-risk" patients, whereby, identifiable psychobiosocial risk factors may be responsibly mitigated.

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Swissotel Chicago
323 W Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60602

Phone: 312-565-0565

*Mention Group Code "World Conference Forum" to get the discounted rate of $239/night!

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