• The AI-Enabled Future of Health Care: What Does It Mean for Quality?​

Practical applications of AI in clinical decision making, population health, operational efficiencies and predictive analytics, as well as AI’s impact on quality, integration into the health care system or initiatives to ensure ethical and secure use of AI in health care.​

• Aligning Payers & Providers: Building a More Collaborative Future​
  Highlights organizations that have employed integrated care models that foster collaboration between payers and providers. Key topics can include: Performance measurement and benchmarking aligned with value-based contracting, data sharing to build trust and collaborating/clarifying roles in care planning, management and patient engagement.​

• Breaking Silos: Whole-Person Approaches to Metabolic Health​
  Submissions should explore whole-person approaches to metabolic health that move beyond disease-specific silos, integrating cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic care for more comprehensive prevention and treatment.​

• Closing the Gaps in Maternal Health: Reducing Disparities and Improving Birth Outcomes​
  Explore strategies to reduce disparities in maternal health and improve birth outcomes by addressing barriers, enhancing care quality and leveraging measurement to drive meaningful improvements.​

• Driving Digital Quality Forward​
  Focus on advancing digital quality, covering key topics like FHIR, CQL and best practices for implementation. Experts will share strategies for overcoming challenges, streamlining adoption and ensuring organizations are positioned for success in the digital quality era.​

• Building Trust in Data: Ensuring Usability, Accuracy and Impact​
  Reliable, high-quality data is the foundation of effective health care decision-making, yet challenges with accuracy, consistency and usability often erode trust. This session explores strategies to improve data integrity and ensure that health care data is not just exchanged—but actionable, meaningful and trusted.​

• Advancing Population Health Through Data and Community-Based Strategies​
  Demonstrated strategies to address chronic disease management, disparities in care and social determinants of health and health outcomes through data-driven or community-based approaches including Medicaid innovations and how reforms are reshaping duals integrations.​

• Innovations in Virtual and Hybrid Care​
  Proven, innovative approaches to virtual care, digital health solutions or hybrid care models that improve accessibility, patient engagement and care coordination. ​

• Using Quality to Guide Decisions: Moving from Measurement to Action​
  Using quality content in real time can transform health care decision-making, helping to identify care gaps, streamline interventions and improve patient outcomes. These organizations have moved beyond reporting to actively use quality data to drive action closer to the point of care.​

• Preserving Quality in An Evolving Health Care Landscape​
  As health care continues to evolve with new technologies, care models and policies, it is critical to ensure that quality remains the foundation of every transformation. These sessions explore how to maintain a strong quality framework amid change, ensuring that innovation enhances, rather than compromises, patient outcomes.

• Measuring What Matters: Aligning Quality Measures for Meaningful Impact​
  Quality measurement is often fragmented, with too many variations creating unnecessary burden on those trying to improve care. These sessions explore solutions to simplify measurement, reduce variation and advance harmonization, ensuring that quality efforts focus on the measures that matter most.​

• Utilization Management: Balancing Efficiency, Quality and Access​
  Optimizing resource use while ensuring high-quality care, including the impact of regulatory policies on care access, coverage and clinical decision-making.

• Whole-Person Health: Integrating Behavioral, Physical and Non-Medical Care​
  These sessions explore the integration of behavioral care, physical care and/or non-medical services to improve health outcomes.​

• Modernizing Credentialing: Innovation, Efficiency and Workforce Adaptation​
  Exploring innovative credentialing solutions that align with NCQA standards to enhance efficiency, accuracy and provider experience while adapting to workforce shifts and evolving policies in health care.​

• Emerging Topics
  If your proposal does not fit into any of the above topic areas, we still encourage your submission for consideration.