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. 2018 Feb 22;5(1):e8.
doi: 10.2196/humanfactors.8083.

Co-Designing a Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N) for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Development of Methods

Michael Seid  1   2 , George Dellal  2 , Laura E Peterson, Lloyd Provost  3 , Peter A Gloor  4 , David Livingstone Fore  5 , Peter A Margolis  2
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Co-Designing a Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N) for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Development of Methods

Michael Seid et al. JMIR Hum Factors. .

Abstract

Background: Our health care system fails to deliver necessary results, and incremental system improvements will not deliver needed change. Learning health systems (LHSs) are seen as a means to accelerate outcomes, improve care delivery, and further clinical research; yet, few such systems exist. We describe the process of codesigning, with all relevant stakeholders, an approach for creating a collaborative chronic care network (C3N), a peer-produced networked LHS.

Objective: The objective of this study was to report the methods used, with a diverse group of stakeholders, to translate the idea of a C3N to a set of actionable next steps.

Methods: The setting was ImproveCareNow, an improvement network for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. In collaboration with patients and families, clinicians, researchers, social scientists, technologists, and designers, C3N leaders used a modified idealized design process to develop a design for a C3N.

Results: Over 100 people participated in the design process that resulted in (1) an overall concept design for the ImproveCareNow C3N, (2) a logic model for bringing about this system, and (3) 13 potential innovations likely to increase awareness and agency, make it easier to collect and share information, and to enhance collaboration that could be tested collectively to bring about the C3N.

Conclusions: We demonstrate methods that resulted in a design that has the potential to transform the chronic care system into an LHS.

Keywords: chronic disease; health care delivery; pediatrics; quality improvement.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Design process used. KDD: key driver diagram.
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ImproveCareNow collaborative chronic care network (C3N) key driver diagram. QI: quality improvement.
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