Program Overview
The Summit programming is designed to engage professionals across roles and experience levels. From high-level keynotes to
hands-on workshops and peer exchange, every session offers practical insight into improving care quality.
Leadership Strategy
Collaboration & Exchange
Innovation & Skill Building
Keynotes
Insights from national leaders shaping the future of care quality
Peer conversations
Small-group discussions on shared challenges
Spotlight Demos
Brief presentations featuring new technologies and solutions
Practical approaches, tools and strategies for measurable improvement
Meet the Experts
Q&A with NCQA and industry leaders on technical topics
Interactive sessions focused on real-world applications
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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 will 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
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. Explore 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. 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.