McLachlan, S, Dube, K, Buchanan, D et al. (6 more authors) (2018) Learning health systems: the research community awareness challenge. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 25 (1). 038-040. ISSN 2058-4555
Abstract
The learning health system (LHS) is one in which progress in science, informatics and care culture converges to continuously create new knowledge as a natural by-product of care processes. While LHS was first described over a decade ago, much of the recent published work that should fall within the domain of LHS fails to claim or be identified as such. This observation was confirmed through a review of papers published at the recent 2017 IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI 2017), where no single LHS solution had been so identified. The authors lacked awareness that their work represented an LHS, or of any discrete classification for their work within the LHS domain. We believe this lack of awareness inhibits continued LHS research and prevents formation of a critical mass of researchers within the domain. Efforts to produce a framework and classification structure to enable confident identification of work with the LHS domain are urgently needed to address this pressing research community challenge.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | learning health systems; health informatics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2018 13:56 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT |
Identification Number: | 10.14236/jhi.v25i1.981 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138840 |