Get Inspired at the 2025 Health Innovation Summit

August 20, 2025 · Becky Kolinski

Health care quality is evolving quickly. From digital transformation and AI, to rising patient complexity and new accountability models, today’s environment demands smarter collaboration and sharper execution.

Join us at the 2025 Health Innovation Summit in San Diego, CA, October 13–15, for a guided journey through the past, present and into the future of health care quality as we celebrate NCQA’s 35th anniversary. The summit brings together the nation’s leading voices to explore ways to modernize infrastructure, strengthen partnerships, scale person-centered care and address the social and behavioral drivers of health.

This year’s conference explores key themes that reflect the most urgent challenges and innovative solutions shaping our field. We’ve woven equity throughout every theme, recognizing its essential role in deepening impact and driving meaningful change.

Key Themes at the Health Innovation Summit

Making Quality Work for You

Unlock the full potential of your quality strategy by aligning goals, data and action to drive results that matter for your organization and the people you serve. Sessions include:

• Improving Data Quality for Use in HEDIS^® Reporting and Other Quality Programs
• Spotlight on Supplemental Data: Observations from NCQA HEDIS Auditors
• ECDS Reporting: Key Strategies for Leveraging Clinical Data Sources for Quality Measurement

Integrated, Person-Centered Care

Break down silos to deliver care that reflects the whole person, and learn how to connect clinical, behavioral and social supports to improve outcomes across settings. Sessions include:

• Keynote: The Next Frontier in Caring for the Whole Person
• Advancing Health Equity: Integrating SDOH into Holistic, Patient-Centered Care
• Embedding Community Health Workers to Address Social Needs and Whole-Person Care: Two Approaches

Population Health in Practice

Explore data-informed approaches for prevention, chronic care management, behavioral health integration and outreach that improve outcomes across populations. Sessions include:

• Improving Maternal Health: Addressing Diabetes, Hypertension, and Prevention from All Angles
• Test. Treat. Transform. Leveraging Virtual Care to Improve Access and Drive Better Outcomes
• Envisioning a Healthier Tomorrow: How Health Plans Tackle Chronic Disease

Aligning Accountability and Value-Based Care

Build stronger partnerships that align payment and performance. Explore how payers and providers are aligning around shared goals, data and outcomes to move value-based care forward. Sessions include:

• Aligning Payers & Providers: Building a More Collaborative Future
• Primary Care Information Blueprint: A Framework for Action in Value-Based Care
• Promoting Quality and Patient Centered Care through Shared Decision Making: A Payer’s Approach

Powering Quality With Digital Transformation

Build a modern quality ecosystem designed for efficiency, accuracy and impact. Learn how digital measures, FHIR^® and real-time results can streamline quality measurement and power smarter care. Sessions include:

• Beyond Compliance: How Digital Quality Measurement Is Powering Enterprise Transformation
• A Real-World Guide to Digital Quality: De-mystifying the Transition from the Top HEDIS Reporting Vendors
• From Concept to Practice: A Quality Team’s Guide to FHIR and CQL

Innovation, AI and the Future of Quality

As innovation accelerates, health care needs clear guardrails, smart AI adoption and a focus on outcomes that matter to patients. Discover real-world use cases where innovation is driving better decisions, stronger systems and higher-quality care. Sessions include:

• Keynote The Trust Layer: Building Confidence in AI Through Standards
• AI on the Front Lines: Prioritizing Timely Follow-Up for High-Risk Patients
• From Chaos to Computable: Using AI for FHIR Data Mapping and Digital HEDIS Readiness

View the entire list of sessions here.

Join Us in San Diego!

Spend three days with leaders in the quality ecosystem, and make valuable connections with innovators transforming the health care industry. The summit blends strategy and action through immersive learning, practical insights and a mission-driven community committed to improving care quality.

Save $200+ if you register by August 31.