Why attend the ASHRM 2026?
Join us at ASHRM 2026!
Taking place October 4-6, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona, the ASHRM Annual Conference brings together safety and risk management leaders from across healthcare for practical learning, conversation and fresh perspectives.
If your team is navigating policy change, safety priorities, operational risk or emerging technologies, ASHRM offers a chance to hear how others are tackling similar challenges and to consider what could work for your organization. RLDatix is proud to sponsor the event alongside many of our customers.
This guide is here to help you decide whether ASHRM 2026 is right for you.
Event details
- Event: ASHRM 2026 Annual Conference
- Date: October 4-6, 2026
- Location: Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona
- Audience: Healthcare risk, patient safety, quality, compliance and operational decision makers
- Main themes: Safer care delivery, organizational resilience, regulatory readiness and practical risk reduction
- RLDatix’s involvement:
- Exhibitor at Booth #301
- Industry Symposium host
- Innovation Award Sponsor
- Invite-only customer reception host
- Official event website
What is ASHRM?
ASHRM, the American Society for Health Care Risk Management, is a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association, established in 1980 to support healthcare risk professionals. Its work connects the areas many healthcare leaders manage every day, including patient safety, enterprise risk, compliance, legal, insurance, finance and operations.
The annual conference brings together hospitals, health systems, insurers, advisors, technology partners and professionals working to make care safer and organizations more resilient. What sets ASHRM apart is its focus on the practical realities of risk management. The conversations are less about general industry trends and more about the decisions healthcare teams are making now including reducing risk, strengthening safety and responding to complex challenges with clarity.
Why attend the ASHRM Annual Conference in 2026?
ASHRM 2026 comes at a time when healthcare organizations are being asked to improve safety, manage enterprise risk and respond to policy and technology developments with limited time and resources. For many attendees, the value is not only in understanding what is changing, but in hearing how other teams are making decisions amid uncertainty. Leaders are balancing regulatory readiness, workforce pressure, patient expectations, incident response, data governance and the growing role of digital tools, including artificial intelligence. Those issues rarely sit in one department, which is why a focused risk management conference can be useful for teams trying to create shared priorities across teams and departments.
The conference also gives attendees space to move beyond surface-level updates and have the conversations that are harder to create through reports, webinars or vendor pages alone. A session might introduce a new legal or safety consideration, but the hallway conversations and connections that follow often help teams understand what that change could mean in practice.
Attendees can expect to leave with a clearer view of emerging healthcare risk priorities and practical ideas to bring back to their organizations. For leaders deciding whether to attend, the strongest reason may be the chance to compare approaches with peers facing similar pressures and return with insight that can help their organization raise the standard of care.
“Healthcare organizations are being asked to improve safety in an environment where harm response, workforce resilience, and patient trust are all under pressure. ASHRM is a timely opportunity to hear how leaders are moving beyond case-by-case response toward more reliable systems for communication, learning, and harm reduction. Attendees should leave with practical ideas they can bring back to strengthen culture and safer care.”
Kimberli Corcoran, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Executive Director, Customer Center of Excellence, RLDatix
Key reasons to attend
Learn about emerging healthcare challenges
ASHRM 2026 is built around the issues healthcare risk leaders are already navigating, including policy patient safety and enterprise risk. For attendees, the value is in seeing how these pressures connect across the organization. A legal development may affect incident response. A safety priority may depend on workforce capacity. A technology decision may create new governance questions. Sessions such as a policy update and conversations on AI agents point to a program focused on what is changing now and what risk, safety and compliance teams need to understand before those changes become urgent.
Hear practical examples from healthcare organizations
Healthcare teams rarely need more theory without context. They need examples they can test against their own realities. ASHRM creates space for risk professionals to hear how other organizations are approaching familiar challenges, from improving patient safety to responding after serious incidents and strengthening enterprise risk practices. Those examples can help attendees ask better internal questions: What would work here? What would need to change? Who needs to be part of the conversation? The goal is not to copy another organization’s playbook, but to leave with practical ideas that can be adapted to your own structure, resources and risk profile.
Connect with peers and industry experts
ASHRM 2026 is designed as an in-person opportunity to learn, connect and lead in a condensed three-day format. That peer connection matters because many safety and quality challenges are shared, even when each organization experiences them differently. A conversation with someone facing similar regulatory pressure, workforce constraints or incident management challenges can help attendees move from broad concern to clearer action. It also creates room for healthcare leaders to compare prioritiesand build relationships with people who understand the complexity of the work. Those conversations often become one of the most useful parts of attending.
Explore new approaches and technology
The agenda features technology-focused conversations, including a session on the rise of AI agents in standard care. For attendees, this is an opportunity to explore how emerging tools, data practices and digital workflows may affect risk management and governance. The value is not simply seeing what technology exists, but asking better questions about accountability and implementation. What risks could a new approach reduce? What new risks might it introduce? How will teams evaluate impact? ASHRM can help healthcare leaders think through those questions in a setting focused on practical decision-making.
Bring useful insights back to your organization
A strong conference experience should continue after the final session. ASHRM can help attendees return with clearer prioritiesand practical examples to share with colleagues. That might mean identifying gaps in current risk processes, framing a conversation about patient safety, bringing new perspective to compliance planning or helping cross-functional teams align on what needs attention next. For healthcare leaders deciding whether to attend, the takeaway is not just what they learn in Phoenix. It is how those insights can support better conversations, stronger decisions and safer care once they are back inside their own organizations.
Topics and conversations to look out for
From what ASHRM has shared so far, priority conversations for 2026 are expected to include policy, case law, patient safety and enterprise risk, with featured sessions pointing to topics such as AI agents, nurse liability and response after violent incidents or active assailant events. For healthcare leaders, these topics connect to broader questions about how organizations learn from harm, reduce operational risk, support staff and make defensible decisions in complex environments. Attendees may also want to watch for discussions around legal and regulatory readiness, incident management, digital transformation and the practical governance needed when new technologies enter care settings. The common thread is not just what is changing, but how teams can respond in ways that are safer, clearer and more connected.
Who should attend?
ASHRM 2026 is most relevant for healthcare professionals responsible for understanding, reducing or responding to risk across their organizations. It may be especially useful for people working in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory networks, long-term care organizations, insurers or advisory roles who need to connect risk decisions with safer care delivery.
If your team is managing regulatory change, incident response, workforce pressure, litigation exposure, technology governance or cross-functional safety priorities, ASHRM can offer a focused setting to compare approaches with peers and bring practical insight back to your organization.
How to get the most from ASHRM 2026
To make ASHRM 2026 useful, start before you arrive. Review the agenda with your team’s current priorities in mind, then choose sessions that connect directly to the goals or questions you are trying to address. If several people from your organization are attending, divide sessions so you can cover more ground and compare notes afterwards. It can also help to prepare a short list of questions before the event: what are other teams doing differently, where are they seeing progress and what would be practical to adapt at home? Book meetings early with folks you want to speak with, especially if your schedule is tight. During the event, keep a simple record of useful ideas or questions. The goal is not to capture everything, but to return with a few clear insights your team can discuss and use.
Meet RLDatix at ASHRM – Booth #301
ASHRM is built around the conversations healthcare teams are already having: how to reduce risk, improve safety, strengthen compliance and make better decisions across complex organizations. RLDatix will be there as a Gold Sponsor, and you can find our team at Booth #301 throughout the conference.
We’ll also be part of the event through an Industry Symposium, Innovation Award sponsorship and an invite-only customer reception. If you’re thinking through incident response, enterprise risk, patient safety, workforce learning, compliance or how technology can support safer care, come say hello. We’d be glad to learn what your team is focused on, share what we’re hearing across the industry and continue the conversation at ASHRM.
To connect with us, visit Booth #301 or arrange a meeting with RLDatix before the event.
How to register
Registration for ASHRM 2026 is open to members and non-members through the official ASHRM event page. The conference takes place October 4–6, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. Check the registration page for the latest pricing, deadlines and eligibility details before booking travel.
If you are attending and would like to meet RLDatix, you can also plan time to visit Booth #301 or arrange a meeting with the team in advance.
Frequently asked questions
ASHRM 2026 is the Annual Conference hosted by the American Society for Health Care Risk Management, bringing together healthcare risk, patient safety, quality, compliance and operational leaders.
ASHRM 2026 takes place October 4–6, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona at the Phoenix Convention Centre.
The event is designed for healthcare professionals responsible for risk management, patient safety, quality, compliance, legal, insurance, operations and enterprise risk.
Attendees typically come to learn from peers, understand emerging risk and safety priorities and bring practical ideas back to their organizations.
Yes. Attendees can visit RLDatix at Booth #301, attend the Industry Symposium or arrange a meeting with the team before the event.
Topics are expected to include healthcare risk management, patient safety, enterprise risk, regulatory readiness, incident response and the responsible use of technology in care settings.
Yes. Leaders responsible for safety, risk, compliance, legal, operations or organizational resilience may find the event useful for understanding emerging priorities and comparing approaches with peers.
Review the agenda in advance, choose sessions connected to your organization’s priorities, prepare questions and plan meetings with peers, speakers or exhibitors before you arrive.
Attendees should expect to return with practical ideas, sharper questions and peer-informed perspectives that can support risk, safety and compliance conversations within their organizations.
You can find the RLDatix team at Booth #301. Attendees can also connect with us through the Industry Symposium, Innovation Award sponsorship or by arranging a meeting before the event.
