Achieving the Learning Health System: Tools and Processes for Engaging Senior Leadership at Provider Organizations

Presentation Type: Workshop - Collaborative
Presentation Time: 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Abstract Keywords: Informatics Implementation, Healthcare Quality, Evaluation
Programmatic Theme: Clinical Informatics

Using a learning health system approach, informatics leaders at provider organizations frequently generate insights, prototypes, and pilot results about how to use technology to best support clinicians, patients, and operational staff. However, they often struggle to secure the sponsorship needed to implement opportunities at scale. A frequent barrier is ineffective communication with operational leaders about the business value of proposed interventions. Realizing widespread informatics innovations (and thus achieving the vision of a learning health system) requires organizational leaders to understand the value of interventions in operational and strategic terms.

This interactive workshop provides participants with practical tools and exercises to better articulate the value and impact of informatics projects to executives. Each workshop faculty brings decades of experience implementing informatics interventions at multiple healthcare organizations. Through case studies and guided exercises, participants will learn to translate informatics concepts, evaluation metrics, and research outcomes into concise “executive-ready” messages that resonate with senior leaders. The session introduces a structured “Executive Value Narrative” framework (Why → Operational Impact → Return on Value → Specific Ask), along with tools for business case development and metrics-to-impact translation.

Through case-based exercises and peer feedback, participants will practice reframing real-world projects into executive-ready value propositions. Examples include AI-enabled technology, digital health innovations (telehealth, virtual nursing, remote patient monitoring, digital front door), quality and safety improvement initiatives, workflow transformation and burden reduction efforts, and population health analytics supporting value-based care, framed to align with institutional priorities.

Participants will be asked to come prepared to discuss specific opportunities and challenges that they are experiencing and will leave with a draft executive-facing narrative, a business case outline, and a metrics-to-impact map tailored to their own initiative. By strengthening the “last mile” of translation between informatics innovation and operational leadership, this workshop supports the practical advancement of modern learning health systems.

Speaker(s):
Fernanda Polubriaginof, MD PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jennifer Prey Dawson, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering

Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

David Vawdrey, PhD
Geisinger

Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD
Columbia University

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