Communities

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.

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.

This tool will benefit those wanting to develop or explore the concept of Learning Communities: a group of peers who come together in a co-designed space to share their judgments and uncertainties about their practice and share ideas or experiences to improve collectively. This approach is rooted…

This tool is an evidence-based toolkit on building Community Learning Plans in Australia. The Learning Communities Framework and Measuring Impact Toolkit by the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government provides concrete templates for planning and reporting, checklists, and further…

This tool is a report that looks at definitions of learning communities in the literature and identifies common features and conceptual underpinnings in these definitions. This tool may be helpful in building an understanding of learning communities and how they might inform a LHS.

This tool (DCMI) is a description of a community of teachers and learners, supporting innovation in metadata design, implementation, and best practices.

This tool describes the work of an international community led by the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan.

This tool is an LHS-focused journal helpful to those who would like to learn and remain up to date on current LHS research.