Organizing for collaboration: An actor-oriented architecture in ImproveCareNow

Seid M, Hartley DM, Dellal G, Myers S, Margolis PA. Organizing for collaboration: An actor-oriented architecture in ImproveCareNow. Learning Health Systems 4 2019;(1): e10205

Collaborative learning health systems (CLHSs) enable patients, clinicians, researchers, and others to collaborate at scale to improve outcomes and generate new knowledge. An organizational framework to facilitate this collaboration is the actor‐oriented architecture, composed of (a) actors (people, organizations, and databases) with the values and abilities to self‐organize; (b) a commons where they create and share resources; and (c) structures, protocols, and processes that facilitate multiactor collaboration. CLHSs may implement a variety of changes to strengthen the actor‐oriented architecture and enable more actors to create and share resources.

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