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Learning Health Care System: Kidney Disease Surveillance, Outcomes, Policy and Action

Routine health data that are collected and maintained at great cost is often under-utilised in health services planning, clinical care delivery and quality assurance. This partnership-driven workshop will highlight the governance and infrastructure required to link health data and overcome these shortcomings in relation to Irish Health System. It will illustrate how the Irish Kidney Disease Surveillance System (IKDSS) tracks the burden and impact of kidney disease in the Irish health system, identifies care patterns and gaps in clinical care delivery, and measures clinical outcomes using a range of quality indicators.
An assembly of national and international experts will demonstrate how linked health data has the potential to inform the development of policies and actionable strategies for optimal kidney disease care, generate hypotheses on potential strategies to slow kidney disease progression through risk factor identification and continuous quality improvement cycles.
This workshop will serve as a catalyst and enabler towards expansion of the kidney disease surveillance system across Hospital Groups from optimal use of national data sets. The objective of the workshop is to highlight how can we optimise current health information technology and infrastructure to:
Improve our understanding of the epidemiology of kidney disease and its management. Provide critical insights into clinical care patterns that are associated with poor outcomes
Generate and apply best evidence on healthcare choices for patients and healthcare providers
Demonstrate that there is value in publicly-funded health research programmes to support outcomes research, foster training opportunities and improve the performance of the health care system