Updates

Quality Talks 2017 Speaker Announcement: Maria Gomez

Speaker Announcement   June 19, 2017, Washington, DC Quality Talks 2017 is proud to announce: Integrating Care for the Most Vulnerable Among Us Maria Gomez | CEO and Founder of Mary’s Center Born in Colombia and brought up in Washington, DC, Maria has dedicated her life to providing high quality care to the community that raised […]

Quality Talks 2017 Speaker Announcement: Dr. Nneka Sederstrom

Speaker Announcement February 24, 2017, Washington, DC Quality Talks 2017 is proud to announce: Ethics is Quality, Quality is Ethics: Improving Care at the End of Life. Dr. Nneka Mokwunye Sederstrom believes that improving end-of-life care not only softens difficult decisions for patients and their families, it improves quality for the entire health care system. […]

Chat with Rebecca Onie

NCQA will be hosting a series of Twitter chats featuring speakers from this November’s Quality Talks. See more information below on how you can participate.  Ask Rebecca Onie your questions with hashtag #qualitytalks for her twitter chat on September 15 at noon. Ask your questions. Rebecca Onie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Health Leads. She is […]

Donna Cryer On The Patient’s Perspective of Quality

The National Committee for Quality Assurance hosted a Twitter Chat with Donna Cryer, President and CEO of the Global Liver Institute, on Thursday, August 13. [View the story “Donna Cryer On The Patient’s Perspective of Quality” on Storify]

A Real Chance To Take Risks

This blog is part of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. Sitting in his scrubs, Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky explains how easily details can be overlooked when treating a patient. There are real system challenges in care coordination. Don’t Wait: Reserve your seat for Quality […]

Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky Talks Health Care Tech

Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, a health care technology advocate and Quality Talks speaker discusses quality in health care. [View the story “Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky Talks Health Care Tech” on Storify]

Health Care Isn’t Just About Health Care

This blog is part of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. The United States is all wrong in how it does health insurance and primary care, and Thompson Aderinkomi knows how to improve the situation now: by taking employers out of the equation. “One […]

Our Love-Hate Relationship with Medication

This blog is part of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. It’s a crisis. That’s how Mary Roth McClurg describes our nation’s love-hate relationship with the medicines we take. McClurg says much of the $271 billion we spent on prescription drugs last year was […]

We Must Assume Nothing

This blog is part of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. Ignore the reflex. Ignore the inevitable draw of human nature. That’s the health care quality prescription from Sachin Jain, MD, Chief Medical Officer at CareMore Health System in Southern California. What is this […]

Are you ready to fail?

This blog is the first of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. That’s the challenge you may hear from one of our featured speakers at Quality Talks 2015. Grace Terrell, MD, President and CEO of Cornerstone Health Care contends that making mistakes is the […]

The Most Dangerous Thing We Can Do

This blog is the first of an ongoing series featuring spotlights on speakers at this year’s Quality Talks. Interested in attending? Register today. Donna Cryer is all too familiar with being a patient. The Harvard-educated Georgetown Law grad has excelled professionally. But her personal life has proven more of struggle because of health concerns. She […]