Can learning health systems help organisations deliver personalised care?

Can learning health systems help organisations deliver personalised care?

There is increasing international policy and clinical interest in developing learning health systems and delivering precision medicine, which it is hoped will help reduce variation in the quality and safety of care, improve efficiency, and lead to increasing the personalisation of healthcare. Although reliant on similar policies, informatics tools, and data science and implementation research c...

Community health workers for diabetes: can they help deliver improved care?

Payment by Results: How can payment systems help to deliver better care?

The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England. We help to shape policy and practice through research and analysis; develop individuals, teams and organisations; promote understanding of the health and social care system; and bring people together to learn, share knowledge and debate. Our vision is that the best possible care is available to all. ...

Can managed health care help manage health care-associated infections?

Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care-associated infections. Several attributes make these organizations logical collaborators for infection control programs: they have responsibility for defined populations of enrollees and for their overall health, including preventiv...

Can Agent Systems Deliver?

Since 1994 we are told to believe that software agents will become the next revolution in computer science [5]. This change is to occur not only in the ways we construct software [4] but it is also to have a much broader impact on the field of human-computer interaction [3,5]. Unfortunately, as it is easy to see, the revolution prophesized in 1994 does not seem to materialize (regardless of the...