LHS Maturity Model (2019-)

Launched January 2019

A Partnership Between AcademyHealth and the Learning Health Community

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LHS Maturity Model Co-Chairs:

  • Charles P. Friedman, PhD

  • Lucy Savitz, PhD, MBA

Additional Leadership:

Background

Learning Health System Maturity Model Statement of Common Purpose (Most Recent DRAFT)

The Learning Health System (LHS) Maturity Model will advance the development of LHSs around the world that work separately and together to advance human health. It will support healthcare delivery organizations and their leaders aspiring to improve health by delivering on the vision embodied by the consensus Core Values for LHSs, ultimately driving sharing of information to improve healthcare and health.

The LHS Maturity Model will serve as a tool to evaluate the extent to which individual healthcare delivery organizations are functioning as LHSs. LHSs can exist at multiple scales and scopes, including but not limited to: healthcare delivery organizations; multi-organizational health improvement networks; states, provinces, and regions; entire nations; and international consortia. This effort provides a framework for determining LHS maturity at the level of healthcare delivery organizations. Working at the organizational level is a key step toward creating regional, nationwide, and international scale LHSs.

The LHS Maturity Model will bring focus to the capacity of organizations to engender transformative change and will guide leaders in strategic planning and tactical implementation to drive continuous improvement. The highest levels of achievement on the LHS Maturity Model will define a high-functioning LHS and will illuminate what LHSs are capable of achieving separately and together.

Multiple and diverse stakeholders will contribute to the development of the LHS Maturity Model. Diverse organizations with shared interest in becoming LHSs, along with other key stakeholders, will be engaged early in the process. The LHS Maturity Model will be the product of an iterative and collaborative process that capitalizes on their breadth of perspectives and deep expertise. The LHS Maturity Model will be dynamic; it will continue to be updated and improved over time.

Our effort will, over time: develop the LHS Maturity Model, validate and legitimate it, establish a governance for its curation and revision, catalyze the establishment of mechanisms for assessment of progress through successive levels of maturity, and deploy the model in ways that benefit healthcare delivery organizations and improve human health.

Resources

Presentations

  • Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) | Are we a Learning Health System? A roadmap for assessing & maturing capacity | Baltimore, MD | July 2024