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Methods Inf Med 2015; 54(06): 488-499
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-12-0004
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Discussion of “Combining Health Data Uses to Ignite Health System Learning”

S. Denaxas
1   Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
2   Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, London, United Kingdom
,
C. P. Friedman
3   Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
,
A. Geissbuhler
4   Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
,
H. Hemingway
1   Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
2   Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, London, United Kingdom
,
D. Kalra
5   The EuroRec Institute, Gent, Belgium
,
M. Kimura
6   Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Informatics, Hamamatsu, Japan
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K. A. Kuhn
7   Technische Universität München, Chair of Medical Informatics, Munich, Germany
,
H. A. Payne
8   University of Washington, Department of Medicine, UW Medicine IT Services, Seattle, USA
,
F. G. B. de Quiros
9   Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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J. C. Wyatt
10   University of Leeds, Leeds Institutes of Health Sciences and Data Analytics, Leeds, United Kingdom
11   University of Southampton, Wessex Institute of Health, Southampton, United Kingdom (from 2016–01–01)
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05 November 2015

Publication Date:
23 January 2018 (online)

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Summary

This article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper “Combining Health Data Uses to Ignite Health System Learning” written by John D. Ainsworth and Iain E. Buchan [1]. It is introduced by an editorial. This article contains the combined commentaries invited to independently comment on the paper of Ainsworth and Buchan. In subsequent issues the discussion can continue through letters to the editor.

With these comments on the paper “Combining Health Data Uses to Ignite Health System Learning”, written by John D. Ainsworth and Iain E. Buchan [1], the journal seeks to stimulate a broad discussion on new ways for combining data sources for the reuse of health data in order to identify new opportunities for health system learning. An international group of experts has been invited by the editor of Methods to comment on this paper. Each of the invited commentaries forms one section of this paper.

Keywords

Health data reuse; secondary uses - meaningful use - learning health systems - adaptive health systems - intelligence pipelines - health-care evidence - population health