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Over 70 people participated in a summit at the 11/23 AMIA conference to launch an initiative to cross-fertilize and accelerate efforts aimed at care transformation and advancing learning health systems (LHSs - see Summit slides). Since this summit, the Accelerating Care Transformation (ACT) initiative has begun, led by initial Steering Committee members listed to the right.

ACT is taking steps to execute on recommendations in the Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support (presented to the Secretary of HHS in 2006), which were enhanced in the AHRQ evidence-based Care Transformation Support (ACTS) initiative funded by AHRQ from 2018-21. ACTS produced a detailed future vision, concept demonstration, roadmap, and execution plan to advance target-focused care transformation and LHSs. 

As outlined in the draft charter, ACT is focusing initially on several high impact clinical conditions to cross-fertilize efforts in ways that advance stakeholder results within and across these conditions. For example, by supporting use of care transformation building blocks and other mechanisms to engage and coordinate stakeholders in target-focused efforts, and providing and leveraging this emerging catalog (fed by this google form) where stakeholders are briefly describing their projects in ways that foster assembling these 'puzzle pieces' into the shared future vision. ACT supported efforts focus on hypertension control, opioid overdoses, chronic kidney disease, sickle cell disease, and other conditions where better care processes and outcomes are urgently needed.

Here is a webinar about an ACT learning community on pain/opioids, and here is a 5 min Lightning Talk (begins at 5:05) from the 2024 MCBK Global meeting on ACT. For more information about ACT, contact Jerry Osheroff.