The Learning Loop – UW Health's Learning Health System News

The Learning Loop - UW Health's Learning Health System News
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Learn about the University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute of Clinical and Translational Research's pragmatic approach to building its Learning Health System as it chronicles its journey, with its many diverse partners, to grow UW Health's LHS and create a sustainable system for continuous learning and health care improvement. You'll come away with greater appreciation for the benefits of the LHS approach, learn strategies for success, best practices and lessons learned along the way. UW's LHS Program Director Majid Afshar and Associate Director Anne Gravel Sullivan host conversations with project leaders and program partners to discuss the issues encountered and problem-solving strategies used to improve healthcare at UW Health and in the Wisconsin region.
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The show focuses on definitions and best practices related to Learning Health Systems, with episodes that include discussions on the role of AI in healthcare transformation, successful project strategies, and practical lessons learned from collaborating with diverse partners in the Wisconsin region.

Learn about the University of Wisconsin – Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research’s pragmatic approach to building its Learning Health System as it chronicles its journey, with its many diverse partners, to grow UW Health’s LHS and create a sustainable system for continuous learning and health care improvement. You’ll come away with greater appreciation for the benefits of the LHS approach, learn strategies for success, best practices and lessons learned along the way. UW’s LHS Program Director Majid Afshar and Associate Director Anne Gravel Sullivan host conversations with project leaders and program partners to discuss the issues encountered and problem-solving strategies used to improve healthcare at UW Health and in the Wisconsin region.
In this episode, we meet with Dr. Joel Gordon, UW Health’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer, to talk about the purpose and promise of adopting an LHS approach to using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve health care.
We focus specifically on UW Health’s recent LHS project and study, an evaluation of an Ambient Listening tool to lessen clinical documentation burden and enhance provider well-being in an outpatient setting. In this lively conversation, we discuss the extensive planning and ongoing adaptations for improvement that the project involved–from establishing a governance structure that could effectively drive the project–to ensuring all regulatory requirements were met.
Dr. Afshar explains how using a pragmatic clinical trial design yielded a novel Pramatic Trial Operations (PTOps) playbook for health systems interested in exploring this use case for AI in clinical practice. The PTOps Playbook is publicly available for researchers to use should they wish to replicate the study and implementation within their health system.
Dr. Gordon details some the extraordinary opportunties the AI ambient listening project presented for UW Health, even as we recall the challenges of aligning the Institute’s research and UW Hospital’s operational timelines, as well as developing strategies and tools for ongoing monitoring of real-time data.

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