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Skovos and the National Healthcare Quality Council Partner to Bring Governed AI to Accountable Care

29 June 2026

Skovos Inc. and the National Healthcare Quality Council (NHQC) are partnering to bring governed AI to accountable care.

CMS wants 100% of Traditional Medicare in an accountable care relationship by 2030. It is already at 53.4%. As that shift accelerates, every ACO is now being pitched AI for outreach, risk scoring, and quality reporting. But most AI systems still cannot answer the basic governance questions that accountable care demands:

  • Who ran this agent?
  • What was it allowed to touch?
  • What did it do?
  • Can we prove it later?

Skovos is the governance layer for healthcare AI: identity, permissions, audit, and traceability for every agent your organization deploys.

NHQC brings deep expertise in value-based care, population health, ACO quality, and compliance, led by CEO Shalema Brooks, MS, MPH, DrPH(c). Together, Skovos and NHQC are pairing healthcare-grade governance with the quality and compliance discipline that ACOs run on.

ACOs are under increasing pressure to perform clinically, financially, and regulatorily while adopting AI responsibly. NHQC is partnering with Skovos because we believe AI must be governed with the same discipline as quality, compliance, and value-based care, so organizations can improve outcomes, protect patients, strengthen performance, and meet the regulatory demands tied to the payments they depend on.

Shalema Brooks, MS, MPH, DrPH(c), CEO, National Healthcare Quality Council

Together, we are helping ACOs put AI to work without giving up control of it. Governed deployment. Real oversight. Healthcare-grade accountability.

More to come.

Read more from the Skovos team.

If your ACO is adopting AI and wants to keep control of it, we would welcome a conversation.