The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning health system' to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes the workshop.
- FrontMatter
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview
- 3 Basic Elements and Building Blocks of a RLHS for Cancer
- 4 A Private RLHS—Kaiser Permanente
- 5 Patient-Driven Rapid Learning Systems
- 6 Challenges and Opportunities
- 7 The Federal Challenge of Responding to the Need for a RLHS
- 8 Summary
- References
- Acronyms
- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
- Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies