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One-Hour Concurrent Session

Can Learning Healthcare Systems Bridge the Data Generation Gap to Inform Critical Care of Children?

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
9:45am – 10:45am Eastern Time
Location: W311E
CE: 1

Learning health systems (LHSs) systematically integrate internal data and experience with external evidence to improve clinical practice, resulting in higher-quality, safer, and more efficient patient care, and healthcare institutions become better places to work. LHSs are characterized by a culture of continuous learning and improvement, along with the systematic cataloging and application of evidence in real time to guide care. Embedded IT methodology can be used to share new evidence with clinicians to improve decision-making. Infrastructure is leveraged to include patients and families as members of the learning team. Iterative data capture and analysis inform care experiences to improve care, and outcomes are continually assessed to refine processes and training to create a learning and improvement feedback cycle. Speakers are working to incorporate LHS technologies, data, and culture to improve the care of infants and children on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize information technology applications for embedded data capture to inform learning loops to improve processes of care
  • Identify aspects of clinical care that may benefit from incorporation of a learning health systems (LHS) approach
  • Discuss the potential to incorporate an LHS approach into hospital reimbursement funding models to form sustainable infrastructure targeted at improving processes of care and ultimately patient outcomes

Presentations:

  • 9:50am – 10:05am Eastern Time
    Bioinformatics to Build a Learning Healthcare System

    Christopher Horvat, MD, MHA – Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

  • 10:05am – 10:20am Eastern Time
    AI-Informed, EHR-Informed, Community-Executed Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plans

    Peta Alexander, MBBS, FRACP, FCICM – Boston Children's Hospital

  • 10:20am – 10:35am Eastern Time
    Using LHSs to Generate Evidence and Improve Quality, Safety, and Equity in Pediatric Care

    Cindy Darnell Bowens (she/her/hers)