Rapid Learning
Accelerating Accountable, Whole-Person Care
Through Rapid Learning
The Accelerator launched the Public-Private Rapid 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 scale learnings through policy action.
Overview of Rapid Learning
The Power of Rapid 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. Rapid learning harnesses on the ground insights through:
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Systematically identifying what works and what does not by employing rapid-cycle evaluation, A/B testing, and randomized controlled trials (RCTs.)
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Collecting and analyzing real-world data during care delivery
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Sharing and scaling insights across collective efforts, such as learning networks
The Public-Private Rapid Learning Hub Takes a Coordinated Approach:
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Define a clear vision: Articulate use cases and opportunities for rapid learning.
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Build bi-directional feedback loops: Connect policymakers and care providers—in real time—through targeted rapid learning initiatives, such as Alzheimer’s care, obesity treatment, or care for older adults with complex needs. This strategy will build on West Health’s past work with learning action networks to address unplanned care, avert avoidable emergency visits and hospitalization, and promote in-home care.
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Support sustainability: Gather insights from health care organizations’ leaders and facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges to understand what they need to scale and sustain rapid learning strategies in real-world settings.
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Share best practices and tools: Provide frameworks, toolkits, and evaluation methods to help health systems adopt rapid learning.
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Highlight real-world impact: Showcase success stories where rapid learning has driven policy change via white papers, blogs, webinars, and outreach.
Meet the Team
Interested in our work? Contact the team at healthaccelerator@duke.edu.
Duke-Margolis Project Team
West Health Project Team
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