Research Team Achievement Award
Learning Networks Team
Drs. Jeff Anderson, Jennifer Angeli, Julia Anixt, Andy Beck, William Brinkman, Maria Britto, Courtney Brown, Adam Carle, Stuart Goldstein, Samuel Hanke, David Hartley, David Hooper, Srikant Iyer, Robert Kahn, Heather Kaplan, Uma Kotagal, Carole Lannon, Ellen Lipstein, Angela Lorts, Maurizio Macaluso, Peter Margolis, Keith Marsolo, Esi Morgan, Steve Muething, Lisa Opipari, Carley Riley, Michael Seid, Kathleen Walsh
The National Academy of Sciences has called for development
of a learning healthcare system to improve functioning of the
healthcare system and patient outcomes.
Over the last 10 years, the Anderson Center has designed,
developed, implemented and studied networked learning health
systems. Today it supports nine learning networks encompassing
558 teams across 286 care organizations in 43 states, the District
of Columbia, and five countries.
These networks have reduced serious safety events (50%),
decreased mortality from hypoplastic left heart syndrome during
the inter-surgery period (40%), reduced elective preterm delivery
(75%), and increased the proportion of children with IBD in
remission (26%).
Anderson Center and affiliated faculty have been awarded over
$50 million in federal research funding to develop and study
learning networks, and to conduct clinical studies using the
learning network infrastructure.
These accomplishments were only possible because of large scale,
multidisciplinary participation. This is truly a “big science”
model that involves close to 100 individuals across Cincinnati
Children’s who have developed the infrastructure for the science
and practice of learning networks.