Learning Health Sciences Service & Outreach
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Collaboration Drives Learning Health Sciences

Uniting experts to advance learning processes and environments.
Working Together for Better Results

Collaboration is at the heart of learning health sciences, a trans-disciplinary field of study that naturally convenes experts that share a common goal: to develop deeper understanding of learning processes and their supporting environments. 

A variety of disciplines combine to create the rich intellectual tapestry of our work:

  • Behavioral science
  • Social and organizational science
  • Cognitive science
  • Information and computer science
  • Industrial and systems engineering
  • Other related fields
Collaborations
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  • As part of a Learning Health System Collaboratory, multidisciplinary researchers working to establish U-M as the academic epicenter for learning health systems.
  • The Learning Health Systems Journal is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal published by DLHS in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons. It includes computable knowledge publications, research reports, experience reports, technical reports, policy analyses, briefs and commentaries.
  • The Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Learning Community is a DLHS convened learning community across Washtenaw and Livingston Counties. OHCA developed HeartSafe Home, a community intervention to raise awareness and capacity to respond to sudden cardiac arrest occurring in the home across underserved minority communities in Washtenaw and Livingston counties.
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Department News
HILS students capture OGPS awards and nominations
Faculty and staff in the Department of Leaning Health Sciences (DLHS) and the Health Infrastructure and Learning Systems (HILS) program congratulate PhD student Philip Barrison for securing the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS) Excellence in Entrepreneurship award. Barrison won the award jointly with Emily Balczewski, who received her PhD in Bioinformatics earlier this year from the Department of Computation and Medical Bioinformatics (DCMB). Barrison and Balczewski will share a $1,000 monetary award.
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Department News
DLHS’ Dr. Akbar Waljee appointed new Executive Director of Center for Global Health Equity
Lyle C. Roll, a professor and primary faculty member in the Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS), Akbar K. Waljee, MD, has been appointed executive director of the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE).
Department News
Applications are open for MEL-STaR second scholar cohort
Applications are open for the Michigan Embedded Learning Health System Training and Research (MEL-STaR) center, based in the Department of Learning Health Sciences.
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Health Lab
Adults don’t trust health care to use AI responsibly and without harm
Research finds that adults surveyed had low trust in their health care system to use artificial intelligence responsibly and others had low trust in their health care systems to make sure an AI tool would not harm them.
Department News
Kudos to HILS Master’s student Patrick Lewicki on LHS publication
Faculty and staff in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) program congratulate HILS Master’s student, Patrick Lewicki for his recent publication about LHS in low resource settings.
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Health Lab
Diagnostic stewardship optimizes detection of appendicitis
University of Michigan researchers found that emergency departments vary widely in how they balance the need to diagnose appendicitis with the potential harms of overtesting.