Submission Deadline Extended to Friday, April 18!
Are you leading groundbreaking initiatives in health care quality? Do you have real-world insights, proven strategies and innovative solutions to share? The NCQA Health Innovation Summit seeks dynamic, insightful speakers to share proven strategies, real-world applications and data-driven innovations that are transforming health care quality.
Why Speak at the NCQA Health Innovation Summit?
- Position Yourself as a Thought Leader:
Share your expertise with a high-impact audience of health care professionals, payers, providers, policymakers and innovators.
- Showcase Real-World Impact:
Present evidence-based, actionable insights that demonstrate tangible improvements in health care quality and patient outcomes.
- Engage with Decision-Makers:
Connect with top industry leaders, potential collaborators and key influencers shaping the future of health care.
- Drive Meaningful Change:
Contribute to discussions on critical challenges, innovations and best practices that can advance health equity, value-based care and digital transformation.
What We're Looking For
- Session Format:
45-minute concurrent sessions
- Audience:
Health care leaders, payers, policymakers and health IT professionals
Sessions featuring real-world applications and innovations on the following content areas:
- 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.
Relevance & Strategic Fit |
The topic aligns with current trends and the needs of the field. |
Proven Practical |
The submission provides practical insights, proven strategies or real-world applications based on facts and on demonstrated experience and results rather than theoretical concepts. We welcome both successes and challenges—what worked, what didn’t, key lessons learned—to provide actionable takeaways. |
Innovation & Originality |
The submission presents new insights or an innovative approach. |
Target Audience & Collaboration |
The submission addresses a specific target segment (health plan, health systems, health IT, government, employers). The submission integrates patient and community voices. |
Clarity |
Key points are clearly articulated and structured in a logical, engaging manner. The content meets stated learning objectives. |
Ethical Considerations |
The content is fair, balanced and free from commercial bias. |
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Deadline for submission |
April 11, 2025 |
Summit registration opens |
April 15 |
Notification of acceptance |
Starting the week of May 12 |
For questions about submissions or selection, please send an email to NCQAsummitspeakers@ncqa.org.
Closes 11:59 PM EST on Friday, April 11, 2025