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Rapid Learning

Accelerating Accountable, Whole-Person Care by Rapidly Learning Together

The Accelerator launched the Accountable Care Learning Hub — a national effort to speed up the adoption of accountable care in the U.S. through a structured, fast-paced approach to identifying the tools and strategies needed to achieve the goals of these models. The Hub will bring together health care organizations, expert advisors, and other public-private stakeholders around a shared goal: making health care better, faster. We aim to identify what works well in our health system, fix what’s broken, and effectively utilize learning to advance scale and scope of the policy impacts.

The Power of Accelerated Learning: Bridging a Critical Gap

Medicare models take years to evaluate and show collective, wide-scale success. Meanwhile, health systems and providers are constantly testing and learning on the ground, but vital feedback rarely informs broader policy strategy. Faster learning harnesses on the ground insights through:

Systematically identifying what works and what does not by employing rapid-cycle evaluation, A/B testing, and rapid randomized controlled trials (RCT).

Collecting and analyzing real-world data during care delivery.

Sharing and scaling insights across collective efforts, such as learning networks.

Operationalizing Rapid Learning

The Accountable Care Learning Hub takes a coordinated approach:

Defining a clear vision and articulating use cases and opportunities for accelerating learning.

Building bi-directional feedback loops to connect policymakers and care providers in real time through targeted learning initiatives, such as Alzheimer’s care, obesity treatment, or care for older adults with complex needs. This strategy builds West Health’s past work with learning action networks to address unplanned care, avert avoidable emergency visits and hospitalization, and promote in-home care.

Supporting sustainability by gathering insights from health care organizations’ leaders and facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges to understand what they need to scale and sustain effective strategies in real-world settings.

Sharing best practices and tools that provide frameworks, toolkits, and evaluation methods to help health systems adopt effective strategies to achieve sustained improvement in patient outcomes and success in accountable care arrangements.

Highlighting real-world impact, showcasing success stories where rapid learning has driven policy change via white papers, blogs, webinars, and outreach.