In this episode, we sit down with NCQA leaders Stacy Grundy, Rachel Harrington and Kristine Toppe for a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Health Quality Forum 2025, and a discussion about the complexities and possibilities of modern health care, with a focus on data sharing and strategies to address health inequities.
Learn about data-driven collaborations in states like Maryland, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, where public agencies, health systems and community groups are uniting to improve outcomes.
And get an inside look at our hands-on workshops on NCQA Health Equity Accreditation and Virtual Care Accreditation, designed to give professionals at the leading edge of virtual services the tools they need to help reduce disparities.
The conversation and conference highlight stories of how virtual care is dissolving data silos and transforming maternal health in states like Arkansas. The emphasis of this episode—and the forum—is on curating diverse voices not often featured at national meetings. The common thread: Moving beyond identifying problems to showcase solutions that work.
Key Quote:
“ Data for the sake of data doesn’t help anybody. If it just sits there and you pat yourself on the back, ‘I’ve got this sitting in my database’; that doesn’t help. What you do with it, matters.
We have a couple of sessions digging into innovating to address health disparities, talking about analytics to understand populations and how to address interventions. Also, we have sessions focused on creating equitable systems of care for populations with disabilities.
Understanding where unmet needs are, how to make things accessible, make things usable—data is part of that. It’s understanding who, what, when, where and how to take what you’re sitting on in your organization and understand it so you can improve care.”
Rachel Harrington
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Register for the 2025 NCQA Health Forum
Connect with Stacy Grundy
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