Tools to help you understand the sources of complexity and failure in your Learning Health System
This case study introduces a new framework that combines the High-reliability Health Care and Learning Health Systems frameworks, describing several organizational efforts that utilized this framework at UC San Diego. Find more information here: by: sarahgilman
This case study describes the co-development and piloting of the Neotree system, which uses an Android-based application in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zimbabwe to support healthcare professionals and patients and provide insights into population health trends in newborn healthcare quality improvement.…
This case study describes the Alliance for Healthier Communities’ journey to a learning health system in primary care. The case study provides useful examples from organizational culture, data and analytics, people and partnerships, and other areas. Find more information here:…
This tool defines and describes organizational readiness for change (ORC), including the conditions that promote ORC and the outcomes expected to result from it. Find more information here: by: sarahgilman
This tool provides readers with suggestions to better integrate patient, caregiver, and community involvement into learning health systems. It offers questions and recommendations to determine if and how health systems actively include patients, caregivers, and communities in their LHS. Find…
This case study describes the degree to which a large general practice operates within an LHS framework and explores staff acceptability towards the LHS model. Find more information here: by: sarahgilman
Many current consent models do not support the agility and transparency required for the secondary use of health data within LHSs. This tool explores the acceptability of the meta-consent model for secondary use of health data for research purposes. Find…
This is a case study describing the experience of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence as an LHS that develops and maintains multisite, practice-based clinical networks that use data for research and improvement. Find more information here:…
This tool presents a repository of validated person-centered measures that evaluate and monitor physical, mental and social health in adults and children, including those living with chronic conditions. PROMIS® (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) is a set of person-centered measures…
This tool presents the PARiHS (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services) framework as a way to implement research into practice. It examines interactions between three key elements for knowledge translation: evidence, context, and facilitation. Find more information here:…
This tool is a guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behavior change to assess implementation problems and support intervention design. Find more information here: by: sarahgilman
This tool presents an architectural framework(a high-level system model)grounded in the LHS literature. Applying this framework may help guide the development, implementation, and improvement of LHSs. Find more information here: by: sarahgilman
