Building Learning Health Systems for Vancouver Community Health Services
Background on Learning Health Systems
We are the Learning Health Systems (LHS) team for the Vancouver Community, and we are excited to invite you to join us and explore the creation of a Learning Health Systems for Vancouver Community's health, together.
LHS is a transformative approach to ongoing learning, engagement, and collaboration among all partners in a health system for continuous quality improvement. This is an approach that will be defined and designed by you, to help you and the healthcare system. A video providing an overview about LHS can also be found here:
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We would like to thank Health Research BC for making this possible by awarding us a Convene and Collaborate grant.
If you are interested in joining us, please kindly register below. Following the registration, you will receive more information about the session, including a meeting invite with a Zoom link.
What is Learning Health Systems (LHS)?
A transformative approach to ongoing learning, engagement, and collaboration among all stakeholders in a health system for continuous quality improvement.
Why should the Vancouver community consider LHS?
The Vancouver community has limitations in information sharing, access to actionable data and evidence, and a tendency to operate in silos can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, wasted resources, and avoidable harm.
By adopting LHS, Vancouver community can overcome these challenges, leading to a more effective and person-centered healthcare system and better health for the population.
How can LHS help you?
It is designed by its members (you), and can vastly improve collaboration, coordination, and the effective flow of information and application of knowledge to practice,
It benefits everyone from clinicians and caregivers to patients, management teams, health support staff, and researchers.
How can you help LHS?
Learning Health Systems is defined and designed by you and your teams, so it becomes a system that works for you.
The sessions are designed to guide and encourage you to think about why we need a LHS, what is needed for becoming a LHS, and how we might go about creating a LHS for community health services in Vancouver.
We look forward to hearing from you!
For more information, please contact Margaret Lin, Project Coordinator, at chenmei.lin@ubc.ca
Team Members
This project is made possible with amazing support from Michael Smith Foundation C2 grant, LHS research team, LHS planning team volunteers, and Vancouver Coastal Health team members.
LHS Research Team
- Lillian Hung, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Senior Care, University of British Columbia
- Krisztina Vasarhelyi, Senior Learning Health Systems Lead, Strategy Deployment, Vancouver Coastal Health
- Margaret Lin, Project Coordinator
- David Hall, Family Physician, former Associate Medical Director at BC Centre for Excellence for HIV/AIDS, former Head of Vancouver Coastal Health Dept. of Family and Community Practice
- Andrew Day, Director, Urgent & Primary Care Vancouver Coastal Health
- Steven Barnes, Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Brittany Bingham, Director, Vancouver Coastal Health Indigenous Research
- Chenoa Cassidy Matthews, Population Health Epidemiologist, Indigenous Health at Vancouver Coastal Health, PhD(c)
- Elaina Moss, Registered Counsellor, Canadian Mental Health Association
- Ben Fair, Assistant Director, Health Systems at University of British Columbia
- John Higenbottam, Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia Department of Psychiatry
- Jae-Yung Kwon , Assistant Professor, University of Victoria School of Nursing
- Joleen Wright, Director, Data Release & Access Management at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Leo Gosselin, Psychiatric Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Lori Benning, Director, Strategy Deployment at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Sue Macdonald, Lead, Consumer Involvement and Initiatives, Vancouver Community at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Andreas Pilarinos, Regional Lead, Research and Policy, Indigenous Health at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Regina Casey, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
- Sandra Fox, Lead, Indigenous Research Engagement and Knowledge Exchange at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Alexander Rutherford, Scientific Director, Centre for Operations Research and Decision Science, Simon Fraser University
- Stephania Anna Manusha, Director of Clinical Trials, Vancouver Coastal Health
- Tracy Windsor, MSW Student, Dalhousie University
- Jas Dhahan, PhD student in Applied Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
LHS Student and Staff Volunteer Team Acknowledgement
- Cissy Yuan, UX Designer and Illustrator
- Ly Nguyen, Research Assistant, Vancouver Coastal Health
- Alia Januwalla, Knowledge Translation Specialist at Fraser Health Authority
- Karen Wong, Ph.D Student, UBC School of Social Work
- Irene Chen, Registered Nurse
- Balpreet Sasan, UBC 4th Year Undergraduate Student in Kinesiology
- Haniya Bharucha, Research Assistant, University of Toronto, UBC IDEA Lab Knowledge Translation Team Member
- Ranbir Rai, Registered Nurse, Fraser Health Authority
- Katrina Yuen, UBC 4th Year Undergraduate Student in the Integrated Sciences Program
- Huine Ge, UBC MHLP student
- Adam Lin
- Ian Chen
- Afshan Oz