The 2026 NCQA Health Innovation Summit will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 4 to October 7. The conference focuses on innovation and national healthcare quality.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) aims to ensure that everyone receives the right healthcare and at the right time, all the time.
This Health Innovation Summit is a conference where innovation in healthcare quality assurance is discussed. The NCQA’s mission drives healthcare quality and innovation across systems, plans, and communities.
The 2026 Summit
The leading theme for the 2026 Health Innovation Summit is “Quality’s Next Chapter,” reflecting the NCQA’s commitment to modernizing measurement, advancing digital quality, embedding equity, and reducing burden, in partnership with healthcare professionals, communities, systems, and plans.
At the summit, healthcare quality leaders, such as providers, payers, technology partners, and policy stakeholders, get together to focus on and discuss what matters most: measurable results, partnerships that enhance quality, and better strategies.
Innovation, Connection, Empowerment
The 2026 NCQA Summit will help you Innovate, Connect, and Empower. NCQA strives to improve healthcare quality by focusing on better care and more choices, advocating for better health.
The NCQA Healthcare Quality Summit offers opportunities for industry leaders looking for practical solutions, not merely theory. You will leave this important event with proven approaches. You will know all about applicable strategies and make connections that will help you implement quality initiatives.
Learn about immediately applicable results – You will learn about innovative technological developments, real-world cases, and actionable frameworks. Your new insights will allow you to implement quality performance improvements, modernize measurement, and reduce the reporting burden.
Learn what works from professionals – At the conference, you will learn directly from professionals, peers, and experts who have successfully implemented digital innovations to improve quality, data-driven, and equity-centered healthcare.
Connect with peers and professionals – You will build relationships that help implement innovations and improve quality – At the NCQA Summit, you will connect with industry leaders so you will learn how to implement innovations, quality standards, and care delivery, These relationships will support collaboration far beyond this summit. You will leave the event with new connections and perspectives that move your important work forward.
Four Main NCQA Summit Tracks
At the 2026 NCQA Summit, there are four main tracks, and each track includes keynotes, workshops, and peer sessions. You will be able to attend across these tracks and build your agenda to match your goals.
Care Delivery – Here, you can examine various operational strategies and care models that close quality gaps, strengthen coordination, and enhance patient outcomes.
Health Plan – Here, you will learn and discuss how health plans use ratings, performance measurements, and accreditation, to meet regulatory quality requirements and expectations, and to guide improvement.
HEDIS & Digital Quality – In this track, you can review various reporting practices, implementation approaches, and digital innovative quality methods to help you improve accuracy and reduce the administrative manual burden.
Health IT/Technology – Here, you can explore how data infrastructure, AI-supported tools, and interoperability can be applied to enhance quality measurement, care delivery, and reporting practices.
Location
The 2026 NCQA Health Innovation Summit is held October 4-7 in Atlanta, Georgia
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Building C
285 Andrew Young International Boulevard NW, Atlanta, GA 30313