The Learning Health Initiative (LHI) program is an integrated, collaborative learning healthcare platform that enables use of clinical data to evaluate the healthcare of children, with current exemplar projects in lower respiratory tract infections, serious bacterial infections, and cystic fibrosis.

Objectives

The program aims to transform The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network into a learning health system by building capacity and new infrastructure to increase access and use of routinely captured patient data for informing clinical practice and research initiatives.

Our Network captures vast amounts of clinical data for every hospital encounter in the electronic Medical Record (eMR). We are interested in using this data to learn what we do well, identifying where we can improve the quality and safety of care, and how we can optimise our health service.