How to Get Injured Workers Back to Work On-time and Healthy (w/Delanea Davis, CEO Cloud9)

Delanea Davis is the co-founder and CEO of Cloud9 Online, a Hartford-based medical-grade meditation tech company. Delanea is an accomplished Senior Executive and Thought Leader, with 25 years of success in P&C market research and the health & wellness industries.

The practical application of Cloud9's white-label B2B solution is to get injured workers back to work on-time and healthy, which improves P&C loss ratios and adds a new datapoint to behavioural datasets that can drive better outcomes for patients, companies and insurers. 

The Cloud9 solution allows injured workers to interact with a library of more than 500 medical-grade guided meditations for better sleep, co-created with clinicians. Disease-state specific meditations are the focus of 7,000+ research studies post-Covid showing how the mind can heal the body.  

Medical-grade meditation is a thing! It stems from a proprietary rubric starting with the disease-state, clinical research on that disease, best practice methodology from hypnotherapy, and leverages neurolinguistic programming to focus on outcomes, together with a clinician's review.

If a worker falls at work and has a surgery and is prescribed opiates, many other conditions are created that require more attention than a physician can provide. Cloud9 adds a holistic layer to getting the patient back-to-healthy that is patented to use machine-learning for suggesting the best therapy based on patients' health record and biometrics.

About Launching and getting invested: Cloud9 has partnered with Hartford Healthcare and Acadia Healthcare to carry out its employee wellness studies and is Connecticut Innovations-invested. She talks about exiting her corporate job, creating her first slides and then an MVP and keeping in close touch with CI as the product grew, understanding the economic opportunity and "fear" or compelling call-to-action in the message you are delivering.

About working with Insurers: Selling to insurance companies is less about money and more about time resources and complementing what they are doing, and needs to be proven out before buying.

About getting a Patent: The logic for filing was the team wanted to put a stake in the ground, create a stronghold around this powerful new idea, and increase their own valuation.

Previously, Delanea was a Vice President at Travelers Insurance Company where she co-founded their enterprise-wide market research department. In this leadership role, she conducted extensive research for more than twenty lines of business, acquiring a deep expertise in property & casualty insurance, customer experience, digital strategy and international expansion strategy.

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