ArticleLearning health systems2023
The Alliance for Healthier Communities' journey to a learning health system in primary care.
Article in Learning health systems, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Implementation strategies and outcome measures for advancing learning health systems: a mixed methods systematic review.Health research policy and systems · 2023Pooled it
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- Developing a codebook to characterize barriers, enablers, and strategies for implementing learning health systems from a multilevel perspective.Learning health systems · 2025Article
- Learning health systems on the front lines to strengthen care against future pandemics and climate change: a rapid review.BMC health services research · 2024Review
- The Alliance for Healthier Communities' journey to a learning health system in primary care.Learning health systems · 2023Article
- The Alliance for Healthier Communities as a Learning Health System for primary care: A qualitative analysis in Ontario, Canada.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2022Article
- Describing a complex primary health care population to support future decision support initiatives.International journal of population data science · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Introduction: The Alliance for Healthier Communities represents community-governed healthcare organizations in Ontario, Canada including Community Health Centres, which provide primary care to more disadvantaged populations. Methods: In this experience report, we describe the Alliance's journey towards becoming a learning health system using examples for organizational culture, data and analytics, people and partnerships, client engagement, ethics and oversight, evaluation and dissemination, resources, identification and prioritization, and deliverables and impact. Results: Many of the foundational elements for a learning health system were already in place at the Alliance including an integrated and accessible data platform. Leadership championed and embraced the movement towards a learning health system, which led to restructuring of the organization. This included role changes for data support personnel, better communication, and dissemination plans, strategies to engage clinicians and other front-line staff, restructuring of committees for more collaborative planning and prioritization of quality improvement and research initiatives, and the development of a new Practice-Based Learning Network for more opportunities to use the data for research and evaluation. Conclusions: Next steps will focus on continued clinical engagement and partnerships as well as ongoing reflection on the transition and success of the learning health system work.
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