The Learning Health System: Democratizing Health Together
1. Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPH, MPP
Josh@JoshCRubin.com
@JoshCRubin
The Learning
Health System:
Democratizing
Health Together
Thursday, April 21, 2016
2. • Program Officer for Learning Health System
Initiatives, Department of Learning Health
Sciences, University of Michigan Medical
School
• Member of the Interim Steering Committee,
Learning Health Community
• Vice President of the Board of Directors,
Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation
Disclosures
3. Some portions of this presentation were adapted from the
work of my colleague and boss, Dr. Charles P. Friedman.
Preliminary Acknowledgement
4. From left: Donald Kemper, Janet Marchibroda, David
Dieterich, George Mitchell, Joe Kanter, Karen Fox, Bob
Dole, Sean Tunis, David Kibbe, Gary Filerman, Paul Elwood
54. “What if your data did not have to die in dusty
paper files and unconnected electronic silos?
What if many private institutions, non-profit
organizations, research centers, government
entities and individual patients decided to
share data? What if we could do this over a
span of years creating an ever larger data
set? That data set could be accessed by the
many in a timely fashion that will enable both
the individual and the organization to make
informed health decisions.”
– Regina Holliday at the Learning Health
System Summit, 2012
A Patient Activist’s Perspective…
55. “… one in which progress in science, informatics,
and care culture align to generate new
knowledge as an ongoing, natural by-product of
the care experience, and seamlessly refine and
deliver best practices for continuous
improvement in health and health care.” (IOM)
Learning Health System (LHS)
56.
57. • Every (consenting) patient’s characteristics and
experiences are, in principle, available for study.
• Best practice knowledge is immediately available to
support decisions.
• Improvement is continuous through ongoing study.
• This learning happens routinely, economically, and
almost invisibly.
• All of this is part of the culture.
A Health System That Learns (Studies Itself)
A System of Health Learners…
65. The LHS Must Do This…
Assemble
Relevant Data
Take Action to Change
Practice
Interpret
Results
Analyze
Data
Deliver Tailored
Message
A Problem of
Interest
Decision to Study
66. Not This…
Assemble
Relevant Data
Take Action to Change
Practice
Interpret
Results
Analyze
Data
Deliver Tailored
Message
A Problem of
Interest
Decision to Study
Journals?
69. • At Any Level of Scale
• Effective, Continuous, Routine, and Sustainable
The New Science of Learning Systems
Semantics, Knowledge
Representation, and
Management
Decision Science
Communication and
Behavior Change
Implementation Science
Complexity & System
Science
Economics
Policy Science
Data Science
Machine Learning
&
Analytics
83. 99 Endorsements of the LHS Core Values*
(As of 4/18/2016)
The Center for Learning Health Care
Siemens Health Services
GE Healthcare IT
*To be included on the www.LearningHealth.org website.
SecureHealthHub, LLC
Department of Primary Care
and Public Health
Program in Health
Informatics, SONHP
Veterans Health Administration
Office of Informatics & Analytics
Division of Health and
Social Care Research
87. “In closing, the Learning Health Community movement and perhaps a number of the
other multistakeholder organizations implicitly envision as one of their key goals
interoperation (as opposed to interoperability, which is a capability versus an
outcome) as a driver of better human health. These organizations are about working
together to collaboratively realize an infrastructure built upon the fusion of
technology, policy, people, and culture that leads to a national system for sharing
health data to enable useful and rapid exchange that is governed, organized and
operated by different levels of public and private multi-stakeholder collaborations.”
– Timothy Pletcher, DHA
www.LearningHealth.org
98. “… for those of us who have battled against the
weariness and ennui most change agents face in the
institutions of government and the healthcare industrial
complex, we know that this change has been a long
time coming, and it’s too late to stop now.”
– Hunt Blair, 2015
www.LearningHealth.org