Transforming the future of health: building learning health systems across the globe.

Journal: Health affairs scholar
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Abstract

Health care has faced disruptions over the past 5 years, including a global pandemic, supply chain interruptions, workforce shifts, and the introduction of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Health care organizations continue to leverage the learning health system (LHS) concept to adapt to these challenges through iterative feedback loops. The Future of Health (FOH), an international community of over 50 senior health leaders that focuses on shared challenges across international health systems, collaborated with the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy in a consensus-building process with FOH members to identify opportunities for action in an LHS. Key areas for action identified include opportunities to leverage data and AI to support clinical decision-making, steps to create an organizational culture of learning, and strategies to engage patients and caregivers, illustrated through case examples.

Authors

  • Sandra Yankah
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Robert Saunders
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Mark Tykocinski
    Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States.
  • Claudia Salzberg
    Future of Health, Washington, DC 20001, United States.
  • Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Rachel Bonesteel
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Cameron Joyce
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Charles Kahn
    Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Mark McClellan
    Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC 20004, United States.
  • Eyal Zimlichman
    Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

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