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A look back at the 2026 RLDatix Summit   

The first thing attendees notice about an RLDatix Summit is the vibe; it’s a conference with a pulse they can feel. But what keeps people coming back are the real-world lessons from the field on healthcare safety, risk management and ways to turn insight into action that they can’t find anywhere else.  

“There’s more energy at this conference than any conference I’ve been to, both from RLDatix and the customers,” said Ryan Solomon, senior vice president of hospital operations for Arkansas Children’s Hospital. “These people are really, really invested in healthcare.” 

That energy carries into sessions that give healthcare leaders a clearer path forward, which is critical at a time when nine out of 10 healthcare professionals say modernizing healthcare operations and systems is no longer optional. 

"Everywhere you turn, you’ve got an expert that knows what you’re talking about or is literally giving you a solution to a problem that’s come up that you’ve been troubleshooting.”

Katie Basta, director of quality, patient safety and medical affairs for Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital and an attendee of the 2026 RLDatix Summit. 

Here are three takeaways from last year’s Summit from attendees themselves. 

1. Closing the gap between patient safety insight and execution is where real value lies.  

In the session “Patient Safety is Patient Care,” three experts from ChristianaCare shared how they combined safety event data with culture-of-care survey results to build an evidence-based patient safety program. Leaders used the data to implement targeted interventions. The impact: event submissions rose 64%, reporting time dropped by nearly half, and new, streamlined tools were adopted systemwide. 

"ne of the foundational concepts we have is we can’t fix it if we don’t know about it. You first need to take tiny actions to start implementing change culture in your organization.”

Dr. Chris Coletti, ambulatory clinical effectiveness officer for ChristianaCare 

Dr. Coletti and his colleagues gave attendees a practical framework for building a comprehensive patient safety program and identifying measurable ambulatory safety trends. 

Strategic takeaway: Insight becomes valuable when it leads to measurable action. 

2. Collaboration isn’t a soft skill in healthcare; it’s a system-level strategy. 

“We don’t need more isolated wins or ‘flavor of the week’ solutions,” said Katelyn Hobbs, manager of quality services for Midwest Surgical Hospital LLC. “We need approaches that translate insight into sustained action across teams, systems and organizations.” 

During the 2026 RLDatix Summit, Hobbs’ session, “Do-MORE-ology: Transforming Limited Resources into Limitless Possibilities,” explored strategic approaches for maximizing constrained resources. She also shared ways to launch quality and safety innovations that fit within an organization’s budget parameters and tips for developing actionable frameworks for improved quality and safety. 

Hobbs is the winner of RLDatix’s “Collaboration Champion” award, presented during the Summit. She said she’s energized by what the award represents: a growing movement toward open sharing, practical learning and scalable improvement. 

Strategic takeaway: Resource constraints make collaboration and scalable frameworks more important, not less. 

3. Separating signals from noise helps healthcare organizations strengthen professional accountability and patient safety. 

Allison Suttle, assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, spoke on the topic of “Unprofessional Behavior as a Risk to Patient Safety.” She pointed to the signal-vs.-noise pain points healthcare professionals often face, from inconsistent categorization to too many low-detail reports and limited visibility into safety trends. She also explored ways to leverage data to understand and address unprofessional behavior as a patient safety risk. 

Ultimately, professional behavior influences team performance, learning, engagement and patient outcomes, she said. During the Summit, she framed data as “the new currency of healthcare” and called RLDatix a “treasure trove” for identifying patterns where clinicians and care team members may not be “their best selves.” 
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She also explained how her team organizes data from RLDatix and other sources into a categorized “library” that supports benchmarking and delivers more actionable insight to individuals. 

"One of the best parts of my work is training clinicians to be peer messengers, giving them the skills to talk to colleagues with empathy about accountability.”

Allison Suttle, assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shared recently on LinkedIn

Strategic takeaway: Better data helps organizations address professional behavior before it undermines safety. 

Don’t Miss This Year’s Summit 

In 2027, the RLDatix Summit takes place February 9–11 in San Antonio, Texas. RLDatix has reserved the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Villas exclusively for this event, creating an immersive setting for the peer-to-peer connection that the conference has become known for. 

“It’s a family,” Sandy Dunn, patient safety system administrator for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, said during last year’s conference. “It’s doing healthcare the right way and doing it together.” 

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