Learning Health Systems - MIE 2016
The first day of Medical Informatics Europe 2016 for me consisted of a tutorial led by Dr Niels Peek and Dr Evan Kontopantelis from the University of Manchester on the topic of Learning Health Systems followed by two very interesting Keynotes from Martin McKee and Andre Kushniruk.
First, Learning Health Systems. The original concept was developed by the Institute of Medicine in the US in 2007:
Since then, the concept has been adopted for several large research studies such as the PCORI network in the US and the Transform EU project. In Manchester Neils and Evan are using the concept in their research using CPRD and other large UK health databases through the Health e-Research Centre.
Our research group at Oxford has also been looking into Learning Health Systems, particularly for use in low-resource settings such as Kenya and we recently published a paper in PLOS Medicine about this opportunity.
The MIE Learning Health Systems tutorial highlighted a number of great resources and concepts which I tweeted as the tutorial progressed. Niels was first presenting on the original concepts and research about learning health systems:
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769812525584121856
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769813550219063296
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769816271630336001
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https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769819401721872384
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769821123005546496
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769824422190604288
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https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769842859528814592
Niels was also kind enough to package up all the tutorial resources including the research papers mentioned and has shared them on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/NielsPeek/status/769830644834770944
Dr Kontopantelis's presentation gave a great overview of the statistical issues relating to learning health systems:
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769844605693136896
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769844961298751488
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769845283991724033
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After the tutorial, we had two great keynotes to kick off the conference proper. The first by Martin McKee was a very entertaining overview of the political economy of health:
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769934470749253632
Prof McKee's speech generated lots of questions and discussion about how politics impacts on healthcare from the audience and also on twitter:
https://twitter.com/MirjamBauer/status/769942753644048384
https://twitter.com/MichaelReiterPR/status/769936652802396160
The second keynote was a very good overview of current usability methods by Prof Andre Kushnurik:
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769943875934912512
https://twitter.com/DrChrisPaton/status/769945355618254848
Andre is a guru of UX research in healthcare and it was great to hear that he has two (two!) new books coming out in early 2017:
I'm looking forward to business meetings with IMIA colleagues today and another interesting keynote this afternoon. Stay tuned...