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.
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.
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
- Lori Benning, Director, Strategy Deployment at Vancouver Coastal Health
- Alexander Rutherford, Scientific Director, Centre for Operations Research and Decision Science, Simon Fraser University
- Karen Wong, Ph.D Student, UBC School of Social Work
- Margaret Lin, PhD Student, UBC School of Nursing
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