McGill's Seminar Series in Quantitative Life Sciences and Medicine
Sponsored by CAMBAM, QLS, MiCM and the Ludmer Centre

Title: PARS3, an infrastructure to support data access activities in context of learning health systems.
Speaker: Jean-Francois Ethier Université de Sherbrooke
When: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12-1pm 
Where: Montreal Neurological Institute, DeGrandpre Communications Centre

Abstract: Learning health systems (LHS) are now recognized as important frameworks to structure activities with the aim of improving citizens' well-being. While the LHS requires close coupling of care delivery, research and knowledge transfer processes, challenges remain, especially when considering LHS involving more than one organisations. This is necessary to have a more complete understanding of an individual since the data will be fragmented across various organisations, a requirements for multiple evaluations like care trajectories. The session will review briefly the LHS framework and challenges it aims at solving in terms of data access, examples of activities enabled. It will also present an example of LHS platform supporting data access developed by the Quebec SPOR Support Unit, PARS3 as well as how it will be deployed in various environments at the local, provincial and national levels..