Knowledge

This tool provides an overview of the potential impact of machine learning (ML), as well as potential barriers to ML. This may be helpful to organizations seeking to use ML to design, test, and deploy new solutions.

This tool describes how positive deviance analysis (learning from high-performance teams and organizations) can provide a useful framework for implementing and improving LHSs.

This tool is used to evaluate multiple, simultaneous health system improvement activities.

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 is a NEJM journal article that details NYU Langone Health’s experiences developing a learning health system, including the development and maintenance of randomized quality improvement projects.

This report outlines a framework for evolving Monash Partners health centers into a LHS to understand barriers and challenges, and to address health service and community priorities and opportunities.

This tool is a comprehensive report that presents a framework and key content for exploring the key challenges and opportunities inherent in developing and supporting a LHS.

A SWOT analysis enables the assessment of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in relation to strategic analysis and planning. It may be useful for reviewing current systems before establishing a LHS, or for evaluating an LHS.